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Grandfamilies.org

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site has a wealth of legal information for grandparents raising grandchildren, as well as articles and fact sheets on many topics, such as housing, raising children with disabilities, getting financial assistance, and much more.
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Generations United: Grandfamilies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site has lots of information for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Find out about efforts to affect legislation, and the challenges around housing, education, health, legal issues, and finances.
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Nhdhhs: A Resource Guide for New Hampshire Relative Caregivers [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
As the title states, this document provides information for caregivers who are not a child's parents, which includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. While the government and social service agencies are specific to New Hampshire,...
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Generations United: Grand Successes: Stories of Lives Well Raised [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Read personal stories of grandparents and the grandchildren who had positive upbringings with them. Includes stories about well-known people, e.g., actor Jamie Foxx, Olympic athlete Felix Sanchez, and Barack Obama. The stories are...
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Child Welfare Information Gateway: Kinship Caregivers and Child Welfare System

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A 15-page resource [PDF] for grandparents and other relatives who are caring for children. It explains what happens when the child welfare system becomes involved and what to expect, as well as what services are available. Includes links...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Describing a Memory

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be able to use a combination of drawing, dictating, or writing to narrate a single event and provide a reaction to what happened. This lesson plan centers around the book "The Song and Dance Man", a great Grandparents Day...
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Generations United: Grandfamilies: Challenges of Caring for the Second Family

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A fact sheet discussing what is known about the prevalence and make-up of families where grandparents are raising their grandchildren. Describes legal issues, mental health challenges for both generations, housing problems, and obstacles...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Old Salty: Does Age Affect the Ability to Detect Salt?

For Students 6th - 8th
Sauerkraut, pickled fish, pickled vegetables, kimchi, corned beef, processed cheeses, smoked lunch meats. Do you like these high-salt foods? What about your grandparents, do they? Do your grandparents seem to like most foods to be a bit...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Slinking Slinkies

For Students 3rd - 5th
Want to do a project with a toy your parents, or even grandparents, might have played with? Slinkies are fun toys that also make great science fair projects. In this experiment you can build an inclined plane to compare the walking speed...
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: Grandma Always Listens

For Students Pre-K - K
In this story, a young girl enjoys a book with her grandmother. Includes audio narration in 14 additional languages with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: Grandpa's Secret Potion

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this story, a boy and his grandpa prepare a 'potion' to make giant bubbles. Includes audio narration in 12 additional languages with text in English.
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Canyon De Chelly: The Long Walk

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting compilation of information about the Navajo Long Walk as told to the author by his Navajo grandparents. Good insight into Navajo culture.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Stroke

For Students 9th - 10th
In this article from Kids Health, learn what happens during a stroke, how strokes are treated, and how you can prevent them. Strokes happen mostly to older people, so find out how you can help a loved one such as a grandparent if it...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Hope and Change

For Students 9th - 10th
In 2008, American voters, tired of war and dispirited by the economic downturn, elected a relative newcomer to the political scene who inspired them and made them believe that the United States could rise above political partisanship....
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Teaching Reading 3 5: Fostering Book Discussions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This video lesson is part of a year-long unit on immigration. It begins with an introduction to My Name Is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada; the students begin to discuss books they have read about immigrants and how that relates to their...
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Harper Collins: Interview With Sharon Creech

For Students 3rd - 8th
Sharon Creech talks about "Granny Torrelli Makes Soup" and "Heartbeat" in this interview about writing and being a grandparent.
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Lopez Books: Joseph Bruchac Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
Joseph Bruchac gives a detailed description of his life and also discusses his involvement as a writer of Native American literature. Bruchac discusses his time as a volunteer teacher in West Africa, his memories of growing up with his...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Memory Preservation One Relative at a Time

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After organizing and conducting an interview of a grandparent/senior citizen, students create a slideshow presentation using the information and memorabilia collected at the interview.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Can You Curl Your Tongue?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson is adapted from a Connected Mathematics Unit, How Likely is It? This investigation introduces biology as a source of applications for probability. In this lesson, Curling your Tongue, students determine how many students in...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Sheep Farm: Numbers in Words & Numerals: Thousands

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Visit Becca at her grandparents' sheep farm. There are thousands of sheep grazing around! Help Becca learn all about 4- and 5-digit numbers here.
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Creating a Family History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What do you know about creating a family history? This site offers a complete lesson plan for developing a sense of how your own family history fits into the bigger picture of the world's history.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Letter to Grandmother [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"Letter to Grandmother" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a family of early settlers who moved west. A girl writes a letter to her grandmother telling her about their new life on the plains. It is followed by...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Summer [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"Summer" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a mother and her two children traveling from the city to the country to visit her parents for the summer. They discuss the modern conveniences they have now like cell phones and...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids

For Students 3rd - 5th
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.

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