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The Impact of History: A Conversation with a Parent

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders interview parents about certain historical events. In this historical interview lesson, 7th graders create a web of events about historical events. Students interview their parents or grandparents about the event and...
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Business Questions First Lesson

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students provide oral responses to interview questions. For this business lesson, students work with a partner to ask and answer typical business interview questions orally. Questions are provided on a worksheet.
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Oral History

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create oral histories. In this oral history lesson, students prepare for and conduct interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, or rescuers. Students study the provided procedure for the interview and present their...
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Tracking the Olympics

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct interviews. In this Olympic lesson, students play the parts of Olympic athletes and sports announcers. Students take part in interviews practicing both parts and create podcasts of the interviews.
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Job Fair

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students develop job interviewing skills by using role play.They practice interviewing in English. The instructional activity targets second language learners. The activity is ideal because the role playing allows for scaffolding and...
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What is Your Story?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students conduct an interview with a member of their family in preparation for writing their own family histories. They listen to their teacher's family story, and listen to the book "Picnic in October." Students then conduct their...
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Living History: Documenting Our Senior Citizens Lives

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate stereotypes by researching the elderly.  For this senior citizen lesson, students interview elders in a rest home and video tape their experience. Students present their videos to their interview subjects after...
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Autobiography and Interviews

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students prepare for a visit to a retirement home using a personal time-line. In this personal time-line activity, students ask their family members for help in making the time-line. They write an autobiography that will be used in a...
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Contemporary History: Watergate

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the Watergate scandal. In this Watergate lesson, students watch a video regarding the scandal and use the Internet to research it as well. Students then interview adults who share memories of the scandal.
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Hero Highlights

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars create documentaries. In this Vodcast lesson plan, students in high school interview elementary school young scholars regarding highlights of their lives. High school students create Vodcasts of the interview sessions.
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I Watch Babies Grow

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the potential of human beings. In this philanthropy lesson, students research the life of peer as they interview them and create a timeline that features important moments in their lives.
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Interviewing a Fairy Tale Character

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students demonstrate question and answer/interviewing skills. They brainstorm questions they would like to ask each other and then interview their partner who will be a fairy tale character. Interviews will be filmed with a video camera.
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Huw's Interview Tips

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify, analyze and articulate correct strategies to interview other people. They choose open questions and learn how to make the most of an interview. In addition, they perform open interviews for the instructor and...
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Interviewing a Historical Figure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine a historical figure by designing an interview for them.
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Papa Interviews

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Working in teams of two, young scholars conduct interviews by playing the role of a reporter and Hemingway. They research their parts, write the interviews, and perform them for the rest of the class.
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Data From Interviews

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create and conduct a survey about favorite foods, gather and represent the data, interpret data and make predictions to present to the class. They create and use interview questions to gather data. Pupils are explained that...
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Interview With A Legend

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate how Language Arts and Social Studies can be integrated in the curriculum. They conduct research about a famous person in history. Then students use the information to write a report for the class. Then students...
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Who's Who in Hampton?

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students interview people in their community. For this community lesson, students write interview questions and practice their interviewing technique. They share the information they received in a podcast. 
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Interview A Famous Greek

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students become acquainted with historical people of Greece through research and role playing. They develop interview and research strategies which get to an historical person's achievements and personality.
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English - "What, Why, When, How, Where, Who?" - Framing Questions to Obtain Information

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore interviewing skills. In this interviewing skills lesson, students frame questions to obtain informative answers as they use what, why, when, how, where, and who questions.
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students interview each other to find similarities and differences with their partner. They create a Venn diagram that displays their findings and then using hula hoops as a large scale model present their Venn diagram to the class as a...
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Job Shadowing

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the concept of job shadowing. They select someone in their chosen field and schedule a day of job shadowing. They interview their selected person and report to the class including what they discovered and write a paper...
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Social Studies: Presidential Mock Interviews

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students, working in pairs, conduct mock interviews of American presidents, highlighting personal and political details. They research their chosen president on the Internet prior to their role-playing presentation. Students publish...
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Heart to Heart Interviews

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students interview veterans at a local homeless shelter. They publish their interviews in a class newspaper. They also present their information in different forums.

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