Family Themed Teaching Resources

Use these printables, activities, and lessons about families to teach your class about social interactions and relationships. By learning about families, students will begin to understand their place in groups, communities, and the world. You'll find writing assignments, Venn diagrams, art activities, and much more for the cross-curricular study of families. These resources are appropriate for kindergarten, first, second, and third grade teachers.

Printables for Grades K-3

• All About My Family
• My Family Tree
• My Family and Me!
• Following Directions
• Your Heredity
• Family Finger Plays
• Family History Project
• More Family Printables for Grades K-3

Printables for Grades 4-8

• Your Heredity
• Family Tree: Student Planning Page
• Inherited and Observable Traits
• We Beat the Street Discussion Guide
• The Lemonade War Teacher's Guide
• Your Family Tree, Version 2
• Judy Blume's Fudge Series Teacher's Guide
• More Family Printables for Grades 4-8

Printables for Grades 9-12

• Crank Reading Guide
• Silent to the Bone Reader's Guide
• When I Crossed No-Bob Reader's Guide
• If I Stay and Where She Went Discussion Guide
• More Family Printables for Grades 9-12

Slideshows

• Ancestry and Family Tree Slideshow
• My Family & Me: Printables Slideshow

Lesson Plans

• A Family Tree
• Table Manners
• An Immigrant's Story
• Life on the Prairie
• Family Tree PowerPoint Presentation
• Country of Origin Comparison
• African Storytellers
• More Lesson Plans

Educational Technology Resources

• A Family Tree
• Life on the Prairie
• Family Tree Organization Chart with PowerPoint
• A Family Tree Checklist
• Life on the Prairie Worksheet
• A Family Tree Vocabulary
• Table Manners Scoring Rubric
• More Educational Technology Resources for Families

Family Learning Resources

• Helping Hand
• Family Tree Wordsearch
• Family Roles: Who Am I?
• In All Kinds of Weather
• We Are a Family
• Interviewing an Older Relative
• Every Family Has a Name
• More Family Learning Resources

Father's Day Resources

• Your Heredity
• Fathers as Caretakers -- Using Statistics
• Father's Day Brainstorming and Writing
• Fathers as Caretakers -- Facts and Figures
• More Father's Day - Teacher Resources

Mother's Day Resources

• Your Heredity
• More Mother's Day Teacher Resources

Family Activities for Art, Music, & Drama

• Family Puppets
• Morning to Night
• Picture Locket
• Pop-up Family Portrait
• Learning About Voice Through Photographs Assessment
• Family Puzzle
• House Dot-to-Dot
• More Family Activities for Art, Music, & Drama

Family Resources for Health & Safety

• A Family Wordsearch
• Taking Care of Your Health: Family Activity
• Nutrition: Family Activity
• Confessions of a Closet Catholic Teacher's Guide
• More Family Resources for Health & Safety

Families & History Connected

• A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder
• Life on the Prairie
• Across Five Aprils Discussion Guide
• The Wall: Literature Guide for Teachers
• Caleb's Story Reading Guide
• A Year Down Yonder Discussion Questions
• Star of Luis
• More Family Resources for History Class

Math Activities for Families

• How Large Is Your Family?
• Your Family
• Where You Belong: Census Activity
• Communities -- Teacher Checklist
• Fathers as Caretakers -- Using Statistics
• All Sizes, All Shapes
• Family Charts and Graphs
• More Math Activities for Families

Families, Literature, & Language Arts Connected

• Sign of the Beaver
• Stellaluna
• Table Manners
• Wuthering Heights
• The Keeping Quilt
• Life on the Prairie
• More Family Resources for Literature & Language Arts

Science & Families Connected

• Stellaluna
• And Tango Makes Three Educator's Guide
• Communities
• Plan a Holiday With Your Family
• Communities Vocabulary
• Which Is It Anyway?
• More Family Resources for Science Class

Community Life Resources

• Communities
• Spitting Image Reader's Guide
• Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms
• Communities Worksheet
• Old Sturbridge Village
• Father's Day Brainstorming and Writing
• More Community Life Resources

Immigration & Families Resources

• The Keeping Quilt
• My History
• Family Group
• Karen Cushman's Novels: A Discussion Guide
• Eve Bunting: A Teacher's Guide to Her Books
• The Importance of Wings Discussion Guide
• Discussion Guide for the Novels of Maria Testa
• More Immigration & Families Resources

Recommended Family Resources

WORKSHEETS The Lemonade War Teacher's Guide Encourage the development of students' entrepreneurial skills with the economics and math activities in this teacher's g.

BOOK GUIDES The Keeping Quilt The Keeping Quilt is a multi-generational story that follows a beloved quilt from one family member to another. The reso.

BOOK GUIDES Wuthering Heights Use this comprehensive teachers' guide on Wuthering Heights to assist you in teaching this great work, with discussion q.

WORKSHEETS Your Family Tree, Version 2 Increase social studies skills with an activity that focuses on family history. This activity helps students understand.

LESSON PLANS Life on the Prairie Prairie life in the 1800s will come alive for students as they visit historical websites with photographs and informatio.

BOOK GUIDES If I Stay and Where She Went Discussion Guide Get students thinking about the power of love, the meaning of family, and the choices we make with the pre- and post-rea.

WORKSHEETS How Large Is Your Family? Increase social studies skills with an activity that focuses on family information. This worksheet includes several Futu.

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