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, Writing Activities Displaying the DataGrades: 1–2 Students collect, analyze, and chart data based on interviews with classmates regarding their family ancestry. |
Lesson Plans A Trip to the HomelandGrades: 3–5 Children learn about their countries of heritage by developing a travel log and booking mock travel reservations. |
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Lesson Plans The Heritage ProjectGrades: 3–5 Classmates prepare to celebrate their cultural heritage by compiling a family tree, page from history, world map, passport, and travel log, and... |
Lesson Plans Family Quilts Keep Us WarmGrades: PreK–K Discusses a lesson plan for teaching children about family diversity involving a quilt craft, fingerplays, family photos, and lecture. |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Brown Paper Bag Family MemoriesGrades: PreK–K Shares a lesson plan for discussing the topic of family. Students talk about memories of family activities and play show and tell with objects that... |
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... |
Activity Plan 3-4: Make a Family GraphGrades: PreK–K Chart the way for math learning with this graphing activity in this ready-to-use teaching idea for three- and four-year olds. Activity: Math. |
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 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... |
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... |
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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: What Is A Family?Grades: PreK–K A theatrical family investigation for five- and six-year olds, Activity: Art. |
Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Celebrating FamiliesGrades: PreK–K Children create frames for their family pictures. |
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... |
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... |
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: 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! |
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... |
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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. |
Lesson Plans, Book Lists Books for Teaching Family StoriesGrades: 3–5 Teacher created book list includes tips for classroom use. |
