Family: Everything You Need

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 Read more >	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. Read more >
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." Read more >	Writing Activities, Unit Plans 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... Read more >
Collections Exploring Family Heritage Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 This collection contains articles and lessons on family heritage exploration and understanding. Read more >	Writing Activities, Unit Plans 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... Read more >
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. Read more >	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... Read more >
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... Read more >	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... Read more >
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... Read more >	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 Read more >
Help Students Discover their Family Heritage Grades: 3–5, 6–8 One class researches its family. Read more >	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.... Read more >
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. Read more >	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. Read more >
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... Read more >	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... Read more >
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... Read more >	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... Read more >