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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Family Stories

For Teachers 1st
A learning module on family stories and what they reveal about the past. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students explore stories...
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Other

Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation: Family Histories

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the stories of six Americans with different backgrounds who wanted to know more about their ancestors' journeys to America and used immigration and genealogy records to complete their family histories.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Creating a Family History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What do you know about creating a family history? This site offers a complete lesson plan for developing a sense of how your own family history fits into the bigger picture of the world's history.
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Website
BBC

Bbc History Trail: Family History

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to create a family tree. Also get tips from experts on researching your own ancestry, including working with census material, military records, and certifications.
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Activity
Other

Family Tree Kids: Making Family History Fun

For Students 1st - 5th
Family Tree Kids is an online magazine fro making family history fun. Learn how to make picture magnets. Stick notes to your locker with old family photographs, or build a pictorial family tree on your refrigerator. Use the link to...
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Handout
Other

The Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation: Genealogy Learning Center

For Students Pre-K - 1st
How did your family come to America? When did they arrive? Chances are, they came into America by boat through Ellis Island. Check here for suggestions to get your family history research going.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: American Folklife Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Set up to assist American families in tracing their family histories, this extensive guide explains how to begin the process, to conduct research, tp take oral interviews, and to locate and analyze documents.
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Website
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: African American Lives 2006

For Students 9th - 10th
From the companion website of the first African American Lives PBS series. (A sequel to that series was broadcast n 2008.) The series profiles the family roots of nine Americans of African descent. Learn what the science of DNA can tell...
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Immigration: Our Changing Voices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through dialogue, documentation, research, and interviews, students understand their role in society. This unit provides a background to students' family histories and gives them an opportunity to listen to the voices of immigrants of...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: A Family History of Marfan Syndrome

For Students 9th - 10th
Questions related to heredity.
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Lesson Plan
A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Family History (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this A to Z Teacher Stuff activity, students research information about their family history, record it, and then present it orally to the class.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring and Sharing Family Stories

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: Back in the Day

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An example of a project-based learning assignment where students examine their own identities based on their family history and environment then move forward to write a nonfiction narrative which will be showcased.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Patricia Polacco's Family Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps students understand that families have both differences and similarities and reinforces the concept that family traditions are part of a student's heritage. Students discuss stories by Patricia Polacco and make...
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Website
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: African American Lives: Who Am I? A Genealogy Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Tracing African American history may be difficult, but the work of historian Henry Louis Gates proves that it isn't impossible. With this resource, learn how to plan a project on your family history.
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Website
Other

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
"The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented. The collection...
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Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Writing Prompts: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Family Stories

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
These images are intended to give students ideas for writing about their families by exploring the details of the art works.
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Website
Other

Genealogy Today

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A great resource for families who are tracing their family tree. Get started by reading tips on organizing and connecting with fellow family tree searchers.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Teaching Tennessee History: Lesson Plans for the Classroom Volume Vii [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Between 1860 and 1910, America began to see an increase in the number of immigrants coming to America for a better life, religious freedom, and a brighter future for their families. It is estimated that about twenty-three million...
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Website
Other

Access Genealogy: Mariposa Indian Family History

For Students 9th - 10th
Embrace the history and culture of the Mariposa Indian tribe, also known as the Yokuts primarily of San Joaquin Valley, California.
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Website
Other

Americans All

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Historians fear that current and future generations will no longer share their family stories. Americans All is program schools can join to encourage preservation of family legacy to continue history of heritage and culture.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Personal Heritage Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This research project requires students to connect with the past by researching both primary and secondary sources for family history. Their findings are presented in a keepsake portfolio and in a multimedia presentation comparing the...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Where I Come From

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson plan directs children to learn about their family histories by visiting sites that connect them to the homelands of their ancestors.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to websites, an image, and a video about using questioning skills to research and write about one's family history.

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