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.
Starter Guide
Resources by Grade
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Additional Resources
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
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
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
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
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
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
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The available housing demand data demonstrates that housing need exists across a broad cross-section of the community, including older single people, single-parent families, people living with disability, key workers and other individuals or families experiencing housing stress or insecurity.
Some residents may also come through government local transfer or downsizing pathways, where people who are already living in social housing move into a smaller, more suitable home. This can help older people or smaller households live in housing that better suits their needs, while freeing up larger homes for families.
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Residents may include people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, as well as older people, key workers and people on low incomes whose current housing is unaffordable or unsuitable. Residents would live independently, pay affordable rent and have the same tenancy rights and responsibilities as other renters, with the homes professionally managed by Vinnies Housing.
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