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Family: The Circle of Life

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners brainstorm family meal traditions and the meaning of "The Circle of Life" while viewing artifacts. They plan a traditional family Thanksgiving meal and write/discuss their own Thanksgiving family meal traditions. Students listen...
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The Royal Family in Britian

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the Royal Family. They participate in a simple game to introduce family vocabulary and study photos in order to identify relationships between various members of the British Royal Family.
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Language Arts: What Is a Family?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss the attributes of a successful family after listening to the poem,"What Is a Family?" After sharing information about their own families, students work in groups to act out scenes from books that were previously read...
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How Can We Improve Family Relationships? A Unit for 2nd Graders on Conflict Management and Family

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the skills they need to have in order to function successfully in a family unit. They look at how families are different from one another and at the dynamics that exist in the families in this unit of lessons.
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Family Celebrations

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students brainstorm a list of family celebrations. They also share what celebrations they share with their own families. They draw a picture of their family during one of the celebrations and share with a partner.
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Birthplace of John F. Kennedy: Home of the Boy Who Would Be President

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the upbringing of John Kennedy and how it effected his culture, character and personality. They investigate their own family traditions, values, and interests.
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The Important Thing About A Family

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the ways families provide basic needs to their members. They listen to the book, The Important Book, by Margaret Wise Brown, and create a flip book that demonstrates the important things about a family.
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Music Activity at Family Math Night

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students work with a family member in placing all of the music notes on a staff board. They try to match the rhythm on the rhythm board and show their completed song to the teacher.
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La Familia

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils use a hopscotch board with pictures of family members in the boxes. They practice their vocabulary while working with others.
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Family

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use the Internet to examine the different types of families in the world today. They create their own family tree or portrait.
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Everything in Its Place: Science Classification

For Teachers 5th
Students investigate the system of classification for living things through the sixteen lessons of this unit. The five kingdoms of monerans, protists, fungi, plants, and animals form the basis of several experiments as the similarities...
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R-e-l-a-t-i-o-n-s-h-i-p-s

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders combine letters to make several short words. They create word families and discuss letter patterns and make one word from all the letters at the end of the lesson.
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My Family

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders list the members in their families and describe their roles.
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Family Relations

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore how families meet basic human needs.
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Digan Queso

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work in groups with the assigned roles of either a photographer or a family member. The photographer gives commands in Spanish designating family members to follow where to stand for a family photo.
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Transmission of Family Histories

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine how different artifacts represent family history, stories, and experiences. They act as reporters for their own family artifacts sharing them with the class.
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Family Celebrations

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss and illustrate family celebrations.
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Describing Family - Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars describe their family in their new language French. They use adjectives, and proper gender. Then they describe how the family is alike and different.
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Family Heritage

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students respond with at least one statement to each of the four questions dealing with families in a carousel brainstorming activity and draw a picture of what they think of when the term "families" is mentioned.
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Family Roles

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students describe possible solutions to problems in the family. They fill out a family graph of their real family. students create a book of their made up family.
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Family Picture Match

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this family picture match worksheet, students draw lines to match sets of family pictures. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Our Family

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore the family unit. In this family lesson, students read books about families and identify the role of each family member. Learners create a family album and share their finished album with the class.
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Testing Your Speaking and Listening Skills - Role Play - Family

For Students 8th - 12th
In this role playing worksheet, students role play the language that they would use talking about a parent's divorce and meeting their father's new girlfriend. There are no questions associated with this worksheet.
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The Banana Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree!

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students research their family history and make a family tree. In this family tree lesson plan, students are given an example of a family tree with names, pictures, and descriptions of each person. They then are instructed to research...