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- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students examine their family history in order to create a family tree. Explain the concept of the family. They are encouraged to interview their parents, grandparents aunts and uncles to get as much information as possible. Full Review »
- 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
- 5th - 6th
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Students conduct research about the founding families of their communities. They compile historical contexts for the era and develop a family tree and historical skit with their findings. 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
- 4th - 6th
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Students research their family trees. They research Internet sites, conduct interviews and, when possible, access primary sources to compile information about their family's history. Students present their findings in a family tree. 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
- 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
- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss if they they know their family's history or if their first name is a "family name". They list their father's, mother's grandparents' (all four) names and add in their aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters. They then write their short family history from what they know. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 12th
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Students research their family history and graph it in a family tree format. They appreciate similarities and differences in various cultures and customs by comparing and contrasting their family trees. They then create an original painting that illustrates findings from their research. Full Review »
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