Long Ago & Now – Grandparent Interview, Family Tree, and Timeline
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Long Ago and Now: Grandparent Interview, Family Tree & Student Timeline help students understand how their lives are similar to or different from their grandparent’s lives. This series of lessons utilizes compare and contrast strategies and has a strong home-school connection.
Long Ago and Now: Grandparent Interview, Family Tree & Student Timeline help students understand how their lives are similar to or different from their grandparent’s lives. This series of lessons utilizes compare and contrast strategies and has a strong home-school connection.
This resource includes:
- Teacher Notes about Compare and Contrast
- Family Tree: Parent Letter in English and Spanish, and a Family Tree in four formats (one set of trees includes gender-neutral language (parent/grandparent vs. mother/father, grandfather/grandmother).
- Grandparent Interview: Parent letter and questions in English and Spanish
- Compare and Contrast the Venn Diagram and Matrix
- Scaffolded writing pages in both primary lines and straight lines.
- Student Timeline in both primary lines and straight lines
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The resources are geared toward second/third grade students and align with Second Grade California Social Studies Standards but can be used in other grades/states as needed.
Sally H. –
Provided a fun and interactive project for the child and grandparent(s) to share.
letty B. –
My students loved doing these and the layout made it easy to organize
Heather Zybas –
My students made their own timelines and shared them with their grandparents and special friends. This led to many interesting and heartwarming conversations.
Maria in Elementary –
This resource was great, loved using it for our timeline unit.
Cassandra Creates –
I used this resource for our school’s Grandparents’ Day and it was a huge hit! The students and grandparents loved the activities, and it created such meaningful conversations across generations.