Day 1 
In the beginning...

Click on the world to take the pretest.
The test will tell us how much you know about families.

• Complete the Button Brood project. Print the worksheet and follow the directions.
• Talk to your partner about the things that are the same and different about each of your button families.
• What conclusion can you make by looking at your buttons?How are your button families the same? How are they different?
• Write the clozed sentence in your journals: "All families are _____________." Fill in the blank and then give some examples to support your statement.
• Use the Journal Rubric to see how you can score a 4 in your journal.

Put all completed work in your red WE ARE FAMILY folder.
 
 
 
 

Day 2

What really matters?

• Do differences mean better or worse? You will decide. But first, you must complete today's activities.
• Your table group is a family. Pick one person to be the recorder, and one person to be the interviewer. 
• Print the Table Family Chart. Record each person's eye color, hair color and height.
• Open your Family Journal. Title the next page: Table Family Chart.

 

1. Who is the tallest? 
2. Who is the shortest? 
3. What color of eyes is most common?
4. Are some traits right or wrong?
5. Do differences in physical traits matter?
6. Who do you play with at recess?
7. Why do you play with those people?
8. When it comes to friends, what really matters?
• Use your Journal Rubric to see how you can score a 4 in your journal.

Put all completed work in your red WE ARE FAMILY folder.
 
 

Day 3

A Family Tree

• Click on Babar's Family Tree and read about his family.

What do you notice about the tree? Who does it include?
Why do you think a tree is used to show Babar's family?
Discuss the answers with your partner.
 
• Now  read about the Rugrats' character Tommy Pickles.
• Read about each person on the Stars page. 
• Keep in mind who is part of Tommy's family and who is not.

Click on Tommy Pickles to view
his web site and read about his family.
© Rugrats created by Arlene Klasky, Gabor Csupo and Paul Germain

• Then print the Stars page. 

 

 
 
 

Only cut out the pictures of people who are in Tommy's family.
 

• Print the Family Tree page. 
• Use your cut-outs to complete Tommy Pickles Family Tree.

 
• Become a parent by picking and choosing a child from the Rugrats game page.

 

1. What is a family tree?
2. What does it show us?
3. Name a person that would not appear on a family tree.
4. What does it mean to adopt someone?
5. How does it feel to adopt a child?
 
• Use your Journal Rubric to see how you can score a 4 in your journal.

• View the teacher's example of the Timeline preparation sheet.

Discuss with your partner, things you notice about the timeline?
What does it tell us?
• Print your timeline preparation sheet. 
• Take a few minutes to brainstorm important things that have happened in  your life.

When did you get your first haircut?
When were you born?
When did you first lose a tooth?
What were your first words?
• Write down one event for every two years of your life.
• Print the Timeline storyboard.
• Draw a picture for each one of your significant events. 
• Write a two sentences about your event on the story board.** Don't forget 

to include the date when it happened or the age you were when it happened.

1. What is a timeline?
2. What can I learn by looking and reading someone's timeline?
 
• Use your Journal Rubric to see how you can score a 4 in your journal.

• Your family survey homework assignment must be completed by today. 
• Read your partner's survey. What do you notice?

Discuss similarities and differences. 
• How many brothers and sisters do each of you have?
• Do you live with your grandparents?
• Where did your family come from?
• Write about the activity in your Family Journal.

Make your own family tree. Click on the tree and print your family tree.
 
• Fill in the family tree chart.

• The Olden Days 
• View the America's Library site.
• Look through the historical book about your city. 

What do you notice about the pictures and the people and things they did?
• Use the Venn Diagram to chart the way things were in the past versus the present.

 

 

Complete the clozed sentences in your Family Journal: Along time ago, people used to  __________. But now 
things are different because people _______________. 

• Take the Post Test

Final Project
Read your Family Journal.
Think about your family.
Look at the projects in your red folder.
What have you learned?
What was your favorite activity? Why?

View the ctap295 website to learn how to use PowerPoint.
Create a Family History, using PowerPoint.

Design a culminating activity that measures student achievement of the standards addressed in the lesson. 

Days 8-11
Present your family history in PowerPoint.