Pimsleur
My Family
Ensure that your learners can describe their families using Portuguese by following the steps provided here and using the included worksheets and assessments for reinforcement. After a brief introductory activity, learners complete...
Read4Health
Piggybook: A Read4Health Lesson Plan
"You are pigs." With those three simple words, the lives of the Piggott family were changed forever. Read aloud the children's story Piggybook by Anthony Browne and teach your class the importance of personal responsibility, learning...
Curated OER
Drawing My Family
In this drawing family members worksheet, students cut out ten frames, draw a picture of each family member in each one and label each picture with the family members name on the lines provided.
Curated OER
Family Member
In this learning exercise on family members, students describe what is meant by family, their duty to family, and family meetings. In addition, they create a budget for their family for one month keeping track of all expenses for 7 days....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We’re a Family: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)
Teach your English language learners how to talk about their families with three weeks of lessons. Over the course of the thematic unit, learners pick up new vocabulary so that they can talk about families and relationships, clothing,...
Curated OER
Managing Multiple Roles
Students identify the roles balanced in family and career activities. For this family and career balance lesson, students identify the roles each family member has and discuss problems problems they see in their own families. Students...
King Country
Lesson 5: Relationships - Day 3: Families
As part of a series of lessons on Family Life and Sexual Health (FLASH), designed for special education classes, high schoolers describe the members of their family and the role these people play in their life.
Curated OER
Becoming a Member of an 1830s Family
Students compare and constrast life in an 1830s family verses a modern family. They role play the position of a family member in 1830 while wearing traditional clothing for the time period. They write journal entries to show their daily...
Curated OER
Family Quilts Keep us Warm
Students explore families and culture. In this family and culture lesson, students discuss their families and their similarities and differences. Students read the book The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco and create their own quilt...
PBS
Family History: Those with Lofty Ideals
Would you stand up for your beliefs, no matter the cost? Scholars investigate their own families to uncover examples of how and when someone stood up for their ideals. Using video clips, interviews, and eulogies, they come to understand...
Curated OER
Family Foodways
Discover, document and share the knowledge of family food and ways special occasions are treated. Your class will explore the context in which food traditions are created and adapted in their families and communities. Each student also...
University of North Florida
Family Child Care Home Instructional Unit: My Community
As Mister Rogers would say, "It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood," especially when youngsters know all about community helpers and their role in the community. These two units, one designed for ages two to three and the other for...
Curated OER
The Right to Die - A Role Playing Activity
Learners are assigned various roles to play in simulation intended to demonstrate the difficult choices involved in keeping relative on a life support system. They research a case, prepare their roles, and present their positions to the...
Serendip
Soap Opera Genetics – Genetics to Resolve Family Arguments
Did she cheat on her husband? Did the hospital switch the babies? Should they have children? As much as this sounds like the plot for a soap opera, all of these questions fit into a single lesson on genetics. Scholars read about three...
Curated OER
We Are Family
Students participate in a class discussion about their family structures. Students also discuss the family diversity of their peers and others in the world. They investigate family habits, family history, values and traditions their...
Curated OER
Family Member Missing Letters Worksheet
In this missing letters worksheet, students examine the 6 family member words that are missing letters and fill in the blanks in each of the words with the appropriate letters.
Curated OER
Family
In this family worksheet, learners review and discuss eighteen key terms associated with families and circle each one in a word search puzzle.
Curated OER
Family Trees
Learners 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...
Curated OER
What Makes a Family?
Students examine the diversity of American families. In this family life lesson, students research the life of Michael Oher, whose life is the subject of the "The Blind Side". Students discuss their research findings and design a mural...
Curated OER
Take Action Haiti
Using an online internet simulation, learners will role-play various members of a family living in rural Haiti. The objective is to increase global awareness by requiring them to consider poverty as an obstacle to education in Haiti....
Smithsonian Institution
POWs
Why did Vietnam POWs and their families receive more media attention than POWs in previous wars? To answer this question, class members view artifacts, read articles, and engage in class discussion. Individuals then assume the voice of...
Curated OER
My Family
Students examine the different kinds of families. In this family lesson, students discuss who is in their family, talk about how families should treat each other and how they feel about their family. Students make posters that show...
Curated OER
A Conventional Family
Students explore writing techniques by analyzing their own families. In this family values instructional activity, students view the film "The Incredibles" in class and discuss the different types of modern-day families. Students write...
Curated OER
Depicting Motherhood in Family Stories
Students examine the roles of mothers and grandmothers by looking at black-and-white photographs of one American family and comparing that family's multi-generational story with their own. In this mothers and grandmothers lesson plan,...