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- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students explain the past through oral history. They see how family stories are heirlooms and construct a photo album reminiscent of days past. They interview family members to write captions that go along with the photos. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore family decision making skills and communication to work through various family problems/crisis situations while role playing specific members in the family. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students participate in a series of hands-on, online, and multimedia activities to examine the concepts of data collection. They collect data on how many people are in their families and use the information to create a tally chart and a class line plot. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss how a family can grow and change. They are to interview their family members about important events that have occured. They are to create a timeline to complete as well. Timelines are shared with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students create a one-page family newsletter about a selected person in their family. They bring in a photo or use a digital camera to take a picture of their selected family member, and use a newsletter template to write and publish their newsletter to present to the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students discuss the attributes of a successful family after listening to the poem,"What Is a Family?" After sharing information about their own families, students work in groups to act out scenes from books that were previously read to them. Each group performs their book scenes for classmates. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students discuss reasons to consider pets as family members. In a discussion session, they compare their feelings with those of pets when either is treated poorly. After reading "Jasmine," a book about animal abandonment, students discuss how it could have been prevented. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a discussion about families, culture, and traditions. They explore the strengths and limitations of their own family and make a family coat of arms. They discuss with the rest of the class which of their cultural traditions they feel most proud of. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students trace their family history back to their great-grandparents and examine where their family is from and what types of jobs their ancestors had. They also define different terms used to describe family relations such as sister/brother, mother/father, aunt/uncle, etc. Finally, students graphically depict a family tree. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students examine the importance of family and community. After watching a video, they draw their own family tree and graph the information of the types of families living in their neighborhood. They compare and contrast modern communities with those of the past to end the lesson. Full Review »
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