Geneology Lesson Plans

Students research the meaning of their names and write an essay about their findings.

Students explore the importance of genealogy. For this genealogy lesson, students read the book Love You Forever by Robert Munch and interview a senior citizen in a retirement home.

Students write a letter and make a card for someone who is a senior citizen. For this senior citizen lesson plan, students read books about relationships with seniors and discuss genealogy and its importance.

Students examine how to value their elders and the senior citizens in society. They show empathy through literature to people who are generation or more older than themselves. They also study the importance of genealogy.

Students discuss how Ida McKinley's parents immigrated to the United States from Europe. Individually, they use the internet to research the history of their own family. To end the lesson, they share their family's history with the class.

Young scholars create a family tree in this culminating activity to their family unit. In this family tree lesson, students extend their learning about the family unit by working in small groups to develop a three generation family tree. They include a country of origin, a map, and show traditional foods and clothing of the family according to their historical time period.

Students discover their family history. In this geneology lesson plan, students participate in a discussion about family history and why it is important. Students create a family tree and present the family tree to the class. Students write a reflection about what they learned from this activity.

Students create a presentation about their life. In this technology lesson, students are assigned a graduate and compile information about the person through interviews.  Students then find photographs of the person and create a PowerPoint presentation for Graduation.

Tenth graders learniabout life in Deerfield during growth period through the examination of artifacts and documents of Stebbins and Wells.

Students study persuasive text. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students read persuasive text in order to identify author's purpose and then write their own persuasive essay.