Shelter’s classroom kit

Housing and homelessness charity Shelter has produced an online classroom kit that offers an interactive programme of themed work exploring the complex issues they deal with every day. Packed with exciting and stimulating free resources, including videos, drag and drop activities, games and information slides, the kit is designed to inspire students while meeting key curriculum objectives.

Four key stage 2 lesson plans (for Geography, English, Citizenship, Design and Technology) explore what ‘home’ means to children in Britain and around the world. They consider what it means to be without a home, and encourage feelings of empathy with families who are homeless.

Four key stage 3 lesson plans are designed to fit into the Citizenship curriculum. They encourage a deeper understanding of housing and homelessness issues, with lessons proving a starting point for debate around four questions: ‘What is homelessness?’, ‘Should we build more homes?’, ‘How can we create better neighbourhoods?’ and ‘What does Shelter do?’

The kit is one element of a new Teachers’ Centre on the Shelter website, where you will find links to housing advice for young people, background information on Shelter’s campaigns and other audio-visual and educational resources. The Teacher’s Centre also features information on Shelter’s upbeat day of fundraising action for schools, ‘Home Time!’, which makes a fun and fitting end to a programme of classroom work on housing and homelessness.

Visit www.shelter.org.uk/teachers to find out more.

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