An article details everything you need to know about celebrating Kwanzaa at your school. An opening-day ceremony starts the seven-day holiday celebration followed a daily routine that includes a greeting, candle lighting, reciting an...

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.

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...

At this site, families can work together to create a unique family tree. Its special design allows you not only to record names of your family members but also to describe their likes and dislikes, how they used their leisure time, where...

At this site, families can work together to create a unique family tree. Its special design allows you not only to record names of your family members but also to describe their likes and dislikes, how they used their leisure time, where...

Ideas for creating memorable family albums using the talents of all family members. Downloadable scrapbook basics as well as twenty different album templates to help you get started.

Ideas for creating memorable family albums using the talents of all family members. Downloadable scrapbook basics as well as twenty different album templates to help you get started.

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.

Quilts, in addition to being a great thing to have to cuddle up on the couch with, have historically been used to tell stories and bring friends and families together. This lesson plan leads students through a series of activities on...

A collection of activities that help students learn about their families. Includes links to reproducibles that are used with some of the activities.

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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A directory of history resources (games, activities, puzzles, graphics) to be used as part of elementary study of Ancient Egypt and Greece, the Middle Ages, the Revolutionary War, and other topics....

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.

A good way to help keep up with grand parents, great grandparents, and great-great grandparents is to draw a family tree. Here are some tips on how to make one.

Parents can begin their child's journey into history as well as supplement their classes in school by doing these activities created by the Department of Education.

Some good ideas for activities that children can do with their grandparents to celebrate their heritage, including a downloadable guide.

Families can come together through games designed to make history something fun and integral to family life. Build a sod house like prairie settlers did in the 1800s. Go back in time to visit five families that lived in the same house...

Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to create time lines of their own family and life histories. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in...

A lesson plan/activity which allows students to learn about primary source documents and family histories while researching the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Taken from the ReadWriteThink calendar on 4/18/07.

Imagine moving into a house made out of sod that you and your family had to build in the middle of a prairie! Find great information and activities that will help you understand how it felt to live on the prairie.

This Grade 1 unit explores U.S. communities in a historical context. By exploring their own community's buildings and services of both long ago and today, children in non-Native American communities are introduced to concepts of change,...

Bring the past to life through hands-on activities for families and schools. Travel back in time and discover what life was like in Norman times. Compare the food we eat today with food from Norman times and discover the importance of...

Primary sources, in addition to Karen Hesse's award-winning historical fiction "Out of the Dust", guide students as they explore the the Dust Bowl and its effect on school life, community, family, and agriculture.

Explain how the isolated and homegeneous population of Iceland makes research in family ancestry simpler than in other cultures. Investigate the work of genealogists, and trace your own heritage as far as you can without extensive research.