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Child Welfare Information Gateway: Kinship Caregivers and Child Welfare System
A 15-page resource [PDF] for grandparents and other relatives who are caring for children. It explains what happens when the child welfare system becomes involved and what to expect, as well as what services are available. Includes links...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Describing a Memory
Students will be able to use a combination of drawing, dictating, or writing to narrate a single event and provide a reaction to what happened. This lesson centers around the book "The Song and Dance Man", a great Grandparents Day activity!
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Generations United: Grandfamilies: Challenges of Caring for the Second Family
A fact sheet discussing what is known about the prevalence and make-up of families where grandparents are raising their grandchildren. Describes legal issues, mental health challenges for both generations, housing problems, and obstacles...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Old Salty: Does Age Affect the Ability to Detect Salt?
Sauerkraut, pickled fish, pickled vegetables, kimchi, corned beef, processed cheeses, smoked lunch meats. Do you like these high-salt foods? What about your grandparents, do they? Do your grandparents seem to like most foods to be a bit...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Slinking Slinkies
Want to do a project with a toy your parents, or even grandparents, might have played with? Slinkies are fun toys that also make great science fair projects. In this experiment you can build an inclined plane to compare the walking speed...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Grandma Always Listens
In this story, a young girl enjoys a book with her grandmother. Includes audio narration in 14 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Grandpa's Secret Potion
In this story, a boy and his grandpa prepare a 'potion' to make giant bubbles. Includes audio narration in 12 additional languages with text in English.
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Canyon De Chelly: The Long Walk
An interesting compilation of information about the Navajo Long Walk as told to the author by his Navajo grandparents. Good insight into Navajo culture.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Stroke
In this article from Kids Health, learn what happens during a stroke, how strokes are treated, and how you can prevent them. Strokes happen mostly to older people, so find out how you can help a loved one such as a grandparent if it...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Hope and Change
In 2008, American voters, tired of war and dispirited by the economic downturn, elected a relative newcomer to the political scene who inspired them and made them believe that the United States could rise above political partisanship....
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Teaching Reading 3 5: Fostering Book Discussions
This video lesson is part of a year-long unit on immigration. It begins with an introduction to My Name Is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada; the students begin to discuss books they have read about immigrants and how that relates to their...
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Harper Collins: Interview With Sharon Creech
Sharon Creech talks about "Granny Torrelli Makes Soup" and "Heartbeat" in this interview about writing and being a grandparent.
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Lopez Books: Joseph Bruchac Essay
Joseph Bruchac gives a detailed description of his life and also discusses his involvement as a writer of Native American literature. Bruchac discusses his time as a volunteer teacher in West Africa, his memories of growing up with his...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Memory Preservation One Relative at a Time
After organizing and conducting an interview of a grandparent/senior citizen, students create a slideshow presentation using the information and memorabilia collected at the interview.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Can You Curl Your Tongue?
This lesson is adapted from a Connected Mathematics Unit, How Likely is It? This investigation introduces biology as a source of applications for probability. In this lesson, Curling your Tongue, students determine how many students in...
Georgetown University
Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive "Jesuit Slaves in the Family"
Patricia Bayonne-Johnson's account of her discovery that the Jesuits of the Maryland Province owned her great-great-grandparents Nace and Biby Butler and sold them to Louisiana.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Sheep Farm: Numbers in Words & Numerals: Thousands
Visit Becca at her grandparents' sheep farm. There are thousands of sheep grazing around! Help Becca learn all about 4- and 5-digit numbers here.
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Creating a Family History
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.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Letter to Grandmother [Pdf]
"Letter to Grandmother" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a family of early settlers who moved west. A girl writes a letter to her grandmother telling her about their new life on the plains. It is followed by...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Summer [Pdf]
"Summer" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a mother and her two children traveling from the city to the country to visit her parents for the summer. They discuss the modern conveniences they have now like cell phones and...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "When I Was a Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Selected (7) reading passages (grades 6-8) to pair with the nonfiction book "When I Was a Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago. Esmeralda Santiago, also known as Negi, describes her childhood growing up in Puerto Rico and her eventual...
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Love to Know: Types of Family Structures
Family structure has changed dramatically over the last 50 years. Read about six specific types of family structures identified by society today.
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Alabama Dept of Archives and History: Make Your Family Tree [Pdf]
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.
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