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- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students open the lines of communication between family members and to gain a historical understanding about family history. They research and interview their grandparents and parents and create a research paper. 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 »
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- 2nd
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Students listen to The Keeping Quilt and through class/small group discussion relate this story to beliefs, customs, and traditions of their own families. They make a class quilt based on these discussions. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students interview family members in order to record family history in the form of a pioneer story, and also interview a member of the faculty in class. They practice note-taking during an interview, re-reading and editing an interview, and then writ Full Review »
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- 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
- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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 »
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