Poverty and School Journeys

Grade 545 min

Learning Objective

I can compare different journeys to school and think about how poverty might make them harder.

Lesson Flow

Watch Video

5 min

How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner

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Practice

14 min

7 questions β€’ Short answer

Exit Ticket

5 min

β€œThe speaker describes taking a long bus ride to school. Imagine another student who lives close enough to walk to a school with fewer resources. How might these two journeys to school be different, and how might poverty play a role in those differences? Think about a student who has to work before or after school to help their family financially. How might their journey to and from school be different from a student who doesn't have those responsibilities? How does poverty affect these different journeys?”

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