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- Grade Range
- 5th - 11th
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Students get involved in an activity in which they can work closely with their family, identify their ancestors, appreciate their ethnic backgrounds, explain the concept of immigration, connect events in history with the movement of their ancestors. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students research information about their family history, record the information and create some sort of family tree. Then they present it orally to the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students examine how different artifacts represent family history, stories, and experiences. They act as reporters for their own family artifacts sharing them with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students research their family history through ethnographical study. They locate information through a variety of sources, interview people, write a report and present an oral presentation to the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students discuss various ways families and communities pass down oral and visual art forms to younger generations. This multi-subject introductory lesson prepares students to create a project about their own families. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students research and gather information from different sources to create a detailed account of their family history. They interview family members, search the internet and examine newspapers for data. Students design a family tree. They write a detailed account on the history of family members. They analyze examples of oral history. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students complete a family history research project using the Internet. They conduct primary and secondary research regarding their family history and create a book to display their results. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students explore the lives of actual people who make a difference in their everyday lives. They differentiate between events that happened long ago and events that happened yesterday by studying their family histories. The unit concludes with students creating family history time capsules that preserve the past and present for the future. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students determine family history when exploring chemical dependency. They examine family roles in a dysfunctional family. Students identify how to "change history" through awareness of risk factors. They are introduced to chemical dependency as a medical or genetic issue. 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 »
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