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Recording Family Stories
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| Grades | 9 – 12 |
| Activity Time | Six hour-long sessions, spread over approximately two weeks |
| Activity Author |
Fredonia, New York |
| Publisher |  |
Activities & Projects
Grades 9 – 12 | Activity & Project
Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events 
Work with teens to learn about family members’ significant personal experiences by interviewing them and sharing their stories with the rest of the family.
Grades 3 – 5 | Activity & Project
Children can interview family members and make an illustrated timeline of the most important family events and memories.
Grades 9 – 12 | Activity & Project
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiography Project
Invite teens to tap relatives, family friends, and community members so they can create biographies of their own births or other significant life events!
Games & Tools
Grades 3 – 12 | Game & Tool
The Graphic Map allows children and teens to chart the significant points related to a particular item or group of items, such as chapters in a book, amounts of money spent, events during a day,
month, year, or life, or scenes in a play.
Tips & How-To's
Grades 6 – 12 | Tip & How-To
Helping a Teen Plan and Conduct an Interview
Interviewing family members or friends can be a valuable way for teens to learn about themselves and their families.
Printouts
Grades 9 – 12 | Printout | Learning New Skills
Young adults can use this printout to interview a friend, family member, or acquaintance to learn more about the interviewee’s life.
Podcast Episodes
Grades K – 5 | Podcast Episode
Check out three books that show how precious family memories are and meet Kate Messner, the author of The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
Grades K – 5 | Podcast Episode
Explore books that celebrate relationships with grandmothers and learn how even across different cultures a grandmother's love is the same.