What is Poverty?
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For Day one, it is important to set a foundation of what Poverty is. Poverty can be described as a person's inability to access the basic needs of survival
Day One's lesson should introduce the the different ways that poverty can be defined. These include the social definitions, statistical definition,the relative definition, and the absolute definition. Students should also be introduced to the difference between income and consumption. After students have been introduced to these topics, have them create a web. They will need paper and a pencil to complete this activity. The teacher should have the students write the word "Poverty" in the middle of a blank page. After they have completed the first step of writing down poverty, ask them to think of images that come to mind when they think about poverty and then make a web chart of descriptive words to describe the word Poverty. These include words like lack of opportunity, homeless, loss of hope, and hunger. Once students are finished coming up with descriptive words it is important to have a class discussion with what they have come up with. To make the discussion more beneficial to the students, the teachers could also ask students the following questions: What have been your direct experiences with poverty?, What assumptions do we often make about people living in poverty? and Do we have people living in poverty in our local community? The teacher should also discuss with students the difference between the terms "needs" and "wants" Students can pair up to come up with a list of the top five things they need for their survival and their top five things they want in their life and then discuss with their classmates to see who agrees and who does not.
In this lesson, students will be able to understand the deffinition of poverty and how it differs socially, statistically, relatively, and absolutely. Teachers should relate back to this website for more help on the deffinition of the words referenced above. This lesson requires students to pay attention to the teachers discussion because this will be the basis for the weeks lesson. If students do not understand poverty they will have a hard time with the rest of the week, therefore it is very important for the teacher to understand and be able to differntiate the words above to teach the information to their students. At the end of today's lesson, students will be able to pick out the definition of words pertaining to poverty and match the definition to the correct word.
Day One's lesson should introduce the the different ways that poverty can be defined. These include the social definitions, statistical definition,the relative definition, and the absolute definition. Students should also be introduced to the difference between income and consumption. After students have been introduced to these topics, have them create a web. They will need paper and a pencil to complete this activity. The teacher should have the students write the word "Poverty" in the middle of a blank page. After they have completed the first step of writing down poverty, ask them to think of images that come to mind when they think about poverty and then make a web chart of descriptive words to describe the word Poverty. These include words like lack of opportunity, homeless, loss of hope, and hunger. Once students are finished coming up with descriptive words it is important to have a class discussion with what they have come up with. To make the discussion more beneficial to the students, the teachers could also ask students the following questions: What have been your direct experiences with poverty?, What assumptions do we often make about people living in poverty? and Do we have people living in poverty in our local community? The teacher should also discuss with students the difference between the terms "needs" and "wants" Students can pair up to come up with a list of the top five things they need for their survival and their top five things they want in their life and then discuss with their classmates to see who agrees and who does not.
In this lesson, students will be able to understand the deffinition of poverty and how it differs socially, statistically, relatively, and absolutely. Teachers should relate back to this website for more help on the deffinition of the words referenced above. This lesson requires students to pay attention to the teachers discussion because this will be the basis for the weeks lesson. If students do not understand poverty they will have a hard time with the rest of the week, therefore it is very important for the teacher to understand and be able to differntiate the words above to teach the information to their students. At the end of today's lesson, students will be able to pick out the definition of words pertaining to poverty and match the definition to the correct word.