[LM_NET] SHARE: mid and sec--Family Tree/genealogy lesson

[Cheryl Youse <cyouse@GMAIL.COM>]

There have been a number of posts about genealogy lately so I thought some
of you might be interested in a lesson I did when I was teaching social
studies a couple of years ago--easy to collaborate on this one--you can pull
in social studies and language arts.

-Assign the students to construct a family tree.  Specify at least through
the grandparents and allow for more (some people don't have the
information).  I used family tree charts from one of the websites mentioned
in Karen Walstein's post.
-Require an interview of one family member who remembers an event important
in our country's history.  I had some good ones--one student's father
marched with Martin Luther King in Birmingham as a child, another student's
brother assisted with the aftermath of 9/11 in New York, one student's uncle
was a highway worker.
-Require the student to research the historical event, using a number of
print and online sources and write a paper about the event and about the
impact it had on that child's family and on the nation.  The student whose
uncle worked on the highway had one of the best projects--an excellent
research paper on the interstate highway system and the changes it effected
on leisure and the automobile industry.
-The kids also had to prepare an oral presentation and some type of display
(artifact/storyboard/photos).  Students were required in the presentation to
tell what they learned that was new to them about their family and what they
learned about history.
-Adapt the project to fit your state standards and requirements.

The kids loved sharing information about themselves and found out that their
family elders had some very interesting stories to tell.


-- 
Cheryl Youse, MLS
Media Specialist
Colquitt County High School
cyouse@gmail.com

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