Today's Classroom Activities :

The Family Tree

Climbing up the family tree
Have your students draw and fill in as many parts as they can of their own family tree. They can fill in full names and dates of birth and draw lines to show relationships. Encourage them to bring in photos of people in their family tree.

All in the Family
Discovering Relatives and the Genetic Connections between Them
In this lesson, students develop family genealogy charts in search of noticeable genetic relationships between relatives.

Family History
An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
This assignment is designed to get students involved in an activity in which they can work closely with their family, identify their ancestors, appreciate their ethnic backgrounds, understand the concept of immigration, connect events in history with the movement of their ancestors, become more cognizant of their own unique individual makeup and its cultural origins, and develop a better understanding of the United States as a melting pot.

Family Trees
Mapping out a family tree can be a great opportunity for younger children to learn more about "where they come from." Often, seeing their immediate family drawn out on paper will help them to remember relatives better and understand those relationships of how those relatives are, well, related! For older students, mapping out a family tree also opens the doors to creative writing assignments about family as well as History and Geography lessons.