ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating Family Timelines Graphing Family Memories
Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask learners to create time lines of their own family and life histories. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in...
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: Crayon Box: Family Diversity
Lesson that helps reinforce the idea that families are diverse and have many different types of traditions. Students discuss The Crayon Box That Talked by Shane DeRolf, talk about their family traditions, and draw and write about their...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Celebrating Family Traditions
This lesson helps learners 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...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Old Business, New Business
In this lesson students are introduced to several businesses from the past. They see that, while the names for these businesses are different, many of the elements of that job are seen in occupations today. The web site, "Business Cards"...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Out of the Night That Covers Me
Through the novel Out of the Night That Covers Me, young scholars will explore the impact of racial segregation, family heritage, and the historical significance of pre-civil rights Alabama. This unit of study is recommended for students...
Other
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum: Herbert Hoover: Gram's Trunk
A lesson in how to conduct historical research using family photos and doing interviews, and newspaper stories from the past. The second part of the lesson is a photo analysis exercise using a photo of children and a cow.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Lets Net: Ellis Island Unit
The Ellis Island Unit focuses on immigration, ethnicity, and cultural backgrounds. It will provide students opportunity to explore their individual heritage through primary and secondary research techniques and share the results of their...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: What's in a Name?
In this Curriculum Unit, students will consider "What's In A Name?" in 4 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Nordic Sagas: Iceland Genes
Explain how the isolated and homegeneous population of Iceland makes research in family ancestry simpler than in other cultures. Investigate the work of genealogists, and trace your own heritage as far as you can without extensive research.
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