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Poverty

Educate your students on poverty in Australia.

Our Poverty Teaching Resources  

At St Vincent de Paul QLD, we have created these National Australian Curriculum resources for schools to help students learn about poverty in Australia.  

These Curriculum resources were created for teachers, to help them discuss the impact of poverty in Australia and around the world in the classroom. Students will explore the causes and effects of poverty, the cost of living, and the global Sustainable Development Goals.   

What The Poverty Teaching Resources Include 

You can access our school resources, including a Fact Book and Curriculum Map about poverty and a series of activities for students in Grades 5 to 10. These activities can be printed or completed electronically.   

For most social justice subjects, we also have A Teacher’s Guide to support the activities. If a guide is not available, this is because the students’ responses will be more subjective or creative.  

Resources by Grade

Year 10

Additional Resources

Year 5

ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES

  • Each of the activities can be either printed or completed electronically. Please note that some activities may require printing in order to be completed
  • Some activities may not have a teachers guide, this is typically when the students responses are subjective or creative
  • Some of the tasks may require the use of additional support documents, these can be found below under the Support Documents Section

Resources Include:

  • Guides for structuring and editing short stories, diary entries, letters, news articles and factual recounts
  • A guide for creating graphs with Microsoft Excel
  • A guide for using the statistics website Gapminder
  • A brief guide to the UN’s 30 Human Rights

Year 6

ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES

  • Each of the activities can be either printed or completed electronically. Please note that some activities may require printing in order to be completed
  • Some activities may not have a teachers guide, this is typically when the students responses are subjective or creative
  • Some of the tasks may require the use of additional support documents, these can be found below under the Support Documents Section

Resources Include:

  • Guides for structuring and editing short stories, diary entries, letters, news articles and factual recounts
  • A guide for creating graphs with Microsoft Excel
  • A guide for using the statistics website Gapminder
  • A brief guide to the UN’s 30 Human Rights

Year 7

ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES

  • Each of the activities can be either printed or completed electronically. Please note that some activities may require printing in order to be completed
  • Some activities may not have a teachers guide, this is typically when the students responses are subjective or creative
  • Some of the tasks may require the use of additional support documents, these can be found below under the Support Documents Section

Resources Include:

  • Guides for structuring and editing short stories, diary entries, letters, news articles and factual recounts
  • A guide for creating graphs with Microsoft Excel
  • A guide for using the statistics website Gapminder
  • A brief guide to the UN’s 30 Human Rights

Year 8

ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES

  • Each of the activities can be either printed or completed electronically. Please note that some activities may require printing in order to be completed
  • Some activities may not have a teachers guide, this is typically when the students responses are subjective or creative
  • Some of the tasks may require the use of additional support documents, these can be found below under the Support Documents Section

Resources Include:

  • Guides for structuring and editing short stories, diary entries, letters, news articles and factual recounts
  • A guide for creating graphs with Microsoft Excel
  • A guide for using the statistics website Gapminder
  • A brief guide to the UN’s 30 Human Rights

Year 9

ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES

  • Each of the activities can be either printed or completed electronically. Please note that some activities may require printing in order to be completed
  • Some activities may not have a teachers guide, this is typically when the students responses are subjective or creative
  • Some of the tasks may require the use of additional support documents, these can be found below under the Support Documents Section

Resources Include:

  • Guides for structuring and editing short stories, diary entries, letters, news articles and factual recounts
  • A guide for creating graphs with Microsoft Excel
  • A guide for using the statistics website Gapminder
  • A brief guide to the UN’s 30 Human Rights

Year 10

ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES

  • Each of the activities can be either printed or completed electronically. Please note that some activities may require printing in order to be completed
  • Some activities may not have a teachers guide, this is typically when the students responses are subjective or creative
  • Some of the tasks may require the use of additional support documents, these can be found below under the Support Documents Section

Resources Include:

  • Guides for structuring and editing short stories, diary entries, letters, news articles and factual recounts
  • A guide for creating graphs with Microsoft Excel
  • A guide for using the statistics website Gapminder
  • A brief guide to the UN’s 30 Human Rights

Resources Include:

  • Guides for structuring and editing short stories, diary entries, letters, news articles and factual recounts
  • A guide for creating graphs with Microsoft Excel
  • A guide for using the statistics website Gapminder
  • A brief guide to the UN’s 30 Human Rights
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