Personal & Family History Teaching Resources
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resources for those 'aha' moments
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All About My Family - Family Tree Project
A set of 4 worksheets to use in the classroom when learning about families.
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Rural, Urban, and Suburban Communities Slide Deck
Study the characteristics different types of communities (urban, rural, suburban) with an instructional slide deck.
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Making a Timeline of My Life Project
Teach your students how to make a timeline with a Create a Timeline Project.
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Long Ago, Now, or In the Future Sort
Help your students develop a sense of history and how life, transportation, and communications have changed over time.
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Then and Now Match-Up Activity
Start a great discussion and show students how technology and society have changed over the years by matching historical images with their modern counterparts.
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Who Lives at My Place? – Template
A 'lift the flaps' template where students display the family members that live in their home.
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Cut & Paste: Characteristics of Communities
Identify characteristics of the different types of communities (urban, rural, suburban) with a cut-and-paste sorting worksheet.
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Long Ago, Now, or In the Future? Match-Up
Help your students develop a sense of history and how life, transportation, and communications have changed with a matching activity.
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In the Past, Present, and Future Puzzles
Start a great discussion and show students how technology and society have changed over the years by matching historical images with their modern counterparts.
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All About My Family Mini Booklet
A template for students to complete a booklet all about their family.
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All About My Family - The Importance Of Family
A set of 4 worksheets to use in the classroom when learning about families.
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All About My Family - Family Crest
A worksheet to use in the classroom when learning about families.
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All About My Family - Personal Timeline
A set of 2 worksheets to use in the classroom when learning about families.
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A Comparison of Daily Life - Assessment Task
An open-ended assessment task for students to demonstrate their understanding of how toys, types of transportation, and communication devices and their uses have changed over time.
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All About My Family - Research Task
A set of 2 worksheets to use in the classroom when researching families.
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All About My Family - Interview
A worksheet to use in the classroom when learning about families.
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Passport To My Heritage - Worksheet
A recording worksheet for students to use in the classroom when researching their own heritage.
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Toys From the Past
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare toys from the past with the present.
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Daily Life - Then and Now Unit Plan
This History unit covers a range of concepts relating to how daily life of the present is different from the past and how it could change in the future.
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Identifying and Classifying Toys
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify an everyday object as a toy and describe how it is used in daily life.
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Family Life - Then and Now
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare daily family life from the past with the present.
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Toys From Today
A 60 minute lesson in which students will describe the features of a present day toy.
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Transport - Then and Now
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare past and present transport and describe how it has changed over time.
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A Life with Transport
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify different types of modern transport and how they are used.
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Let's Communicate!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explain how we communicate with others.
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A Comparison of Daily Life - Assessment Task
An inquiry-based assessment task in which students will demonstrate how their world is different from the past and how it might change in the future.
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Communicating Through Time
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explain how communication devices have changed over time.
