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Family: Everything You Need

What does it mean to be a part of a family? You may use these resources to help students develop their ideas.

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Introducing Our Families

Grades: PreK–K

Children will delight in sharing and learning about their family members

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Teaching Guides

Oral History: A Writing Workshop Teacher's Guide

Grades: 3–5

Lesson planning suggestions and other resources for using the "Oral History Writing Workshop" in the classroom

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Family Books

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

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Lesson Plans

Discovering Your Heritage

Grades: 3–5

Students are asked to interview their families about their cultural heritage, create a family tree, and map their journeys to America

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Writing Activities

Oral History: A Writing Workshop

Grades: 3–5

Who would you like to learn more about? This step-by-step workshop guides students writing an oral history on a person of interest.

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Embracing Our Diversity

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Ms. Newingham's 3rd grade class studies and celebrates ancestry, completing research reports and staging an "International Festival."

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Immigrants: Our Ancestors

Grades: 3–5

Prompt students to learn about their cultural heritage through interviews with family members. Students present charts, maps, based on their...

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Exploring Family Heritage

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

This collection contains articles and lessons on family heritage exploration and understanding.

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Celebrate Your Heritage

Grades: 3–5

Students interview relatives about their heritage, make a family tree, and map their ancestors' migration in this lesson unit on America's...

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Everything You Need

Immigration: Everything You Need

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Students learn about the effects of immigration on American history and culture with a variety of resources for each grade level.

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Book Lists

Home Story Quilts

Grades:

Here is a story about a quilt. It is a special quilt because it tells a story about home. The author is Carolyn Elwood, a teacher who works with...

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Activities and Games, Unit Plans

We Are Family

Grades: PreK–K

Let your students share stories about their own unique families with an underlying theme of all families, whether traditional or not, as loving...

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Book Resources, Lesson Plans

We Are Family, Grades K–1

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Activities, reproducibles, and tips for teaching kids K-1 about families. Includes "Button Broods, "Families on Display," a discussion of animal...

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We Are Family, Grades 2–3

Grades: 1–2, 3–5

A cross-curricular theme unit celebrating family. Activities include making a family tree, discussing animal families, taking snapshots, recording...

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Book Resources, Lesson Plans

We Are Family, Grades 4–8

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Presents a family studies unit developed to encourage students in grades 4-8 to explore different ethnic groups and types of families

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Help Students Discover their Family Heritage

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

One class researches its family.

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Internet Field Trip: Families: The Roots of History

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Provides Web sites with information on genealogy and family history. A research guide, oral history questions, and example memoirs are featured....

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Tracing Our Own Family Pilgrimages

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Students track their ancestors' voyages to America in this Thanksgiving lesson plan focused on diverse cultural heritages.

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Activities and Games, Unit Plans

We Are History: Family Stories

Grades: 3–5

Break the ice and let your new students get to know their classmates through oral storytelling of their family histories.

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Computer Lab Activities, Lesson Plans

The Mystery of History: Original Sources

Grades: 3–5

Presents a lesson identifying the methods through which historians gather facts and verify their accuracy with a special slant on stories about...

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Writing Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans

What is Your Story?

Grades: 3–5

Illustrates a lesson plan that entails students interviewing parents or guardians about their family stories, and writing a biographical memoir...

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Lesson Plans

Listen To Me!

Grades: 3–5

Students utilize the oral presentation skills they've learned by telling family stories they gathered through interviews with parents or guardians...

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Writing Activities, Lesson Plans

Learning to Interview

Grades: 1–2

Have students practice their listening and speaking skills by asking them to introduce their families and each other, with the main theme being...

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