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PBS

Pbs: Make a Family Tree

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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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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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Human Origins: Human Family Tree

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the human ancestor you are interested in and click on it either in the timeline or the list below for more details. Each fossil or reconstruction pictured includes links to more details about it.
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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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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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Alabama Department of Archives and History

Alabama Dept of Archives and History: Make Your Family Tree [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st
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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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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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: My Family Health Portrait

For Students 9th - 10th
Students create a personalized family health history report. The resource consists of a sample report, a family tree, and a chart of your family health history.
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Bio Topics

Bio Topics: Genetic Pedigrees: Family Trees

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of notes explaining genetic pedigrees, otherwise known as family trees.
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PBS

Pbs Frontline: The Family Tree of Jesus

For Students 9th - 10th
A very detailed graphic listing Jesus's parents, brothers (and possibly sisters) and their descendants.
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BBC

Bbc News: Science and Nature: 'Hobbit' Joins Human Family Tree

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at the newly found species called the 'hobbit' that lived 12,000 years ago on the Flores Island and that is said to be linked to humans.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Greek and Roman Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive unit on Greek and Roman mythology including essential questions, key terms, background information, reading assignments from both Greek and Roman mythology, influences of them today, assignments such as creating a...
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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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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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Curated OER

Baylor College of Medicine: Family Tree Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Simple family tree showing how traits are passed through the family tree.
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Other

Donnelly Family Tree

For Students 9th - 10th
The Donnellys were one of Canada's most notorious families who were massacred in 1880. The family tree gives information on the parents of the Donnellys and their descendants.
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Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Denominational Family Tree: Presbyterian Family

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the Presbyterian church in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do a mouse-over.
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CNN

Cnn: One Family's Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Enchanting web page that chronicles the Green family, who was impacted by Hurricane Katrina. This interactive page has a family tree, video of their plight, photographic gallery, maps, etc. This sad story, yet brilliant report, is an...
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Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Denominational Family Tree: Congregationalists

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the United Church of Christ/Congregationalists in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do...
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Family Tree: Methodist Church

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the Methodist church in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do a mouse-over.
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Family Tree: Mennonite Churches

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the Mennonite churches in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do a mouse-over.
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Family Tree: Lutheran Church

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the Lutheran church in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do a mouse-over.
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Family Tree: Baptist Church

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the Baptist church in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do a mouse-over.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Madison's Treasures

For Students 9th - 10th
Documents presented here relate to two seminal events in which Madison played a major role: the drafting and ratification of the Constitution of the United States (1787-1788) and the introduction (1789) in the First Federal Congress of...

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