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Title:
| Family: Family Life |
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Description:
| These sites focus on family and family life. Students learn about family histories and traditions, family ties, changes in families, and family life. Includes classroom activities and lesson plans. There are also links to eThemes Resources on family and genealogy. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5 |
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Resource Links:
| ReadWriteThink: Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
Students gather information about their families and create a graphic time line of their own family and life history. NOTE: This site has links to external sites.
ReadWriteThink: Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
This lesson plan is designed for students to explore and learn about their families through group discussions, family member interviews, and personal narrative writing. NOTE: This site has links to external sites.
ReadWriteThink: My Family Traditions: A Class Book and a Potluck Lunch
Students learn about family traditions by reading and discussing a bilingual children's book, "Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia" by Carmen Lomas Garza. Then they create a family picture classbook and have a potluck.
PBS: Family Tie
Click on "Hello Cousin" to read stories about a family reunion and then go to "Grow a Tree" to build your own family tree.
KidsHealth: Dealing with Feelings
Click on the "Home and Family" link for topics related to family life such as getting along with family members, living in different types of families, dealing with fights in a family, and more.
Family Life Lesson Plans
This 34-page PDF file has lesson plans to help students understand about various aspects of family life including changes in a family structure, arrival of new family members, living with family members that need special care, and reproduction.
Talking About Family Changes
Using this hands-on activity, students learn about the importance of communication in a family.
eThemes Resource: Genealogy
Students can learn about the history of surnames and understand their own uniqueness. Alex Haley wrote a story about his ancestors, find out the facts and write a story about your ancestors. There are different templates for students to create their own family tree. Listen to audio recordings of real immigrants from Ellis Island.
eThemes Resource: Family
These websites are about families. Children can learn about the different types of families that there are in the world. There are many student activities such as make a family tree, paint a family portrait, or make a poster about how they celebrate special occasions in their families. There is also eThemes resources about grandparents.
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