Teaching Themes
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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Lesson Plans, Book Resources We Are Family, Grades 4–8Grades: 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 |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources We Are Family, Grades K–1Grades: 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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Lesson Plans The Relatives Came: A Family Read-AlongGrades: 3–5 This writing prompt idea gets students to talk about themselves, their families, and their summer vacations through narrative writing. |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans, Book Resources And Tango Makes Three Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 And Tango Makes Three is a great title to use when teaching about families. Students find a sense of accomplishment in arranging the eggs in... |
Send Home Activities: Family StoriesGrades: PreK–K Children will develop language, listening, and social skills, and cultural awareness as they share photographs and stories about their families in... |
Send-Home Activities: Celebrating FamiliesGrades: PreK–K Children will engage in activities that encourage fine-motor development, social/emotional development, language skills, and creative development... |
Activity Plan 4-5: When My Parents Were ChildrenGrades: PreK–K Children will work collaboratively to develop a questionnaire to learn about their parents'childhoods in this ready-to-use teaching idea for four... |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Activity Plan 5-6: Mapping Our HistoriesGrades: PreK–K Children will develop language, literacy, social studies, and math concepts as they learn about the different places their families came from in... |
Activity Plan 5-6: Family BannnerGrades: PreK–K Children will develop language, creative thinking, and social awareness by creating banners about their families in this ready-to-use teaching... |
Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Family MathGrades: PreK–K Children will create drawings of family members to use for math activities including counting, seriating, sorting, grouping, and sequencing in... |
Activity Plan 3-4: A Big Book About UsGrades: PreK–K This collaborative project will help children develop fine-motor, creative-- thinking, and language skills as they share photos and stories about... |
Send Home Activities: My Family/Friend TreeGrades: PreK–K A Send Home Activity for parents and young children: Children will "branch out" as they explore family members or family friends and roles! |
Activity Plan 4-5: It's Easy as ABC!Grades: PreK–K Here's an orderly way to explore families in this ready-to-use teaching idea for four- and five-year olds. Activity: Language and Literacy |
Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Celebrating FamiliesGrades: PreK–K Children create frames for their family pictures. |
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Unit Plans, Writing Activities Immigrants: Our AncestorsGrades: 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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Activities and Games, Unit Plans We Are History: Family StoriesGrades: 3–5 Break the ice and let your new students get to know their classmates through oral storytelling of their family histories. |
Activities and Games, Unit Plans We Are FamilyGrades: 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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Unit Plans, Writing Activities Celebrate Your HeritageGrades: 3–5 Students interview relatives about their heritage, make a family tree, and map their ancestors' migration in this lesson unit on America's... |
 Collections Exploring Family HeritageGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 This collection contains articles and lessons on family heritage exploration and understanding. |
