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How to Celebrate Kwanzaa on Your Campus
An article details everything you need to know about celebrating Kwanzaa at your school. An opening-day ceremony starts the seven-day holiday celebration followed a daily routine that includes a greeting, candle lighting, reciting an...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Family Traditions Bingo: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week, we are learning about how sharing our family traditions helps us to respect and contribute to the diversity...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Making Family Traditions Packet: Pre K and K
Use these family traditions-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: My Family Traditions a Class Book and a Potluck Lunch
Contains plans for eleven lessons that teach about family traditions and diversity using the book "Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia" by Carmen Lomas Garza. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Celebrating Family Traditions
This lesson helps students explore the traditions that their families have. Students discuss that there are many types of families, complete questionnaires about their families' traditions with a parent or guardian, and create a family...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Family Cultural Traditions
In this instructional activity, 2nd graders will identify family traditions.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Traditions at Home and Around the World
Each student will research his/her own family traditions and report findings to the class using presentation software. In partner groups, students will select a country to research. Their research will focus on traditions of a chosen...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Patricia Polacco's Family Stories
Lesson that helps students understand that families have both differences and similarities and reinforces the concept that family traditions are part of a student's heritage. Students discuss stories by Patricia Polacco and make...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Crayon Box: Family Diversity
Lesson that helps reinforce the idea that families are diverse and have many different types of traditions. Young scholars discuss The Crayon Box That Talked by Shane DeRolf, talk about their family traditions, and draw and write about...
Other
Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation: Family Histories
Follow the stories of six Americans with different backgrounds who wanted to know more about their ancestors' journeys to America and used immigration and genealogy records to complete their family histories.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: My Family and Me Bingo: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week, celebrate what makes you and your family special!
Trinity University
Cultural Trends, Social Movements & Institutions Affecting Family
While this site doesn't list the functions of the family, it does give background material that helps explain how the family functions exist within society. Looks at the way that society changes families.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Traditions in Our Family
This lesson gives the students an opportunity to see that every family has traditions they participate in throughout the year.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Lesson Plans: We Are Family, Grades K 1
A collection of activities that help students learn about their families. Includes links to reproducibles that are used with some of the activities.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Veterans
In every adventure, some things change, but others stay the same. Use this page as a way to talk about the things that are the same, things that are different, and things that you'd like to keep the same, perhaps family traditions or...
Other
Australia Media Family Network : Halloween Around the World
Find out how Halloween is celebrated in many countries around the world. Are there other traditions or names given to this day, are costumes always worn, are different games and tricks played? Have fun finding out ..!
Utah Education Network
Uen: Let's Party!
Learn about family traditions and customs of celebrations at home and around the world.
Other
Definition of "Family" in Zoning Law and Building Codes
Site offers guidelines to writing a definition of Family for the purposes of zoning laws. Gives constitutionally permissible standards.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Explore Wedding Traditions
A lesson plan that gives young children the opportunity to learn about weddings and to experience different wedding traditions. Includes ideas for making props and role-playing wedding ceremonies and celebrations.
Peabody Essex Museum
Peabody Essex Museum: A Late Qing Dynasty Home
A multimedia-rich exhibition that explores the traditional Chinese home of the Huang family. With excellent photographs and cross-sections of the structure of the home and its surroundings. Includes a fascinating genealogy of the family...
NWT Literacy Council
Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Culture and Traditions [Pdf]
This kit explains the importance of northern First Nations families keeping their languages and cultures alive through family literacy activities. It provides ideas and materials for cultural games (e.g., string games) and activities...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Women in Africa: Tradition and Change
In this lesson plan, students will consider Women in Africa: Tradition and Change. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. Students first examine a selection of traditional African artworks that...
Language Guide
Language Guide: La Familia
A very complete graphic with audio of the traditional family. Audio files load quickly and play as you move your mouse over the top of the picture.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Storytime Stick Puppets Family Activity
Make puppets of Molly and her family and friends from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, and use them to retell a story you watched. You can also take Molly on a new adventure by making up your own story. The activity also includes...
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