1. Families of the Past and Present
An overview of the upcoming unit

2. Unit Summary
In this unit we will take a look back at families from the past and
explore how they would have lived. Then each student will take an in
depth look at their own family. The students will ask their parents and
other family members about there family and try to find out all they
can. The students will be required to produce a project and then an
oral presentation, as well as a small group project.

3. Curriculum Framing Questions
Essential Question: What is history?
Unit Questions: How did families of the past live? What is my family
like compared to families of the past?
Content Questions: How does your upbringing affect how your family
is? Does the time that you live in affect your family? Would you
rather live your family life like it is now or how it would have been in
the past?

4. Role of the Teacher
The role of the teacher in this unit is to bring out information and
several family units from around the world and from the past. The
teacher will also be there to assistant the students as the create there
projects and presentations. The teacher will set up the project and set
clear standards for the students.

5. Role of the Parent
The role of a parent in this project it to provide any assistance the
student may need, without actually doing the project or work for the
student. With this project the students will need to know information
about their own family history and that is where the parents will come
in. The student may want to have pictures of past family members, or
detailed information on their own family. Such as family heritage,
where their family has lived in the past, and past jobs. As a parent you
can provide this information.

6. Role of the Student
The role of the student is to learn about past family units, then to learn
about their own. Then the students will act as the teacher and teach
the class about their family. The students will also have to work well
with a group and be able to effectively show how a certain family unit
would work to the class in the form of a short skit. Essentially the
students will act as detectives going back into time to gather clues
about the families and tell the world what they found.

7. Benefits of the Unit
The students will not only gain knowledge about their own family but
about families of the past. They will also have to work on their group
skills. The students also get to work with their families members. This
unit will provide the students with information that they probably did
not know about their own family while still having fun.

8. Standards That Will Be Met
Kindergarten Social Studies
2) Compare families of today with families of the past in relation to
work, home, and school.
Kindergarten Social Studies
3) Identify historically significant events as they relate to self and
family.
Kindergarten Social Studies
9) Describe ways people celebrate their diverse cultural heritages.

9. Objectives for the Unit
For the students to be able to effectively present information on their
families.
For the students to work well in a group.
For the students to be able to present information about a family unit
with a group.
For the students to compare and contrast their own family with other
families.
For the students to be able to understand and explain the importance
of cultural heritages.

10. Project Based Learning
Project based learning will be incorporated into this lesson by the
students creating two projects. One will be an individual project and
one will be a group project. The individual project will be a Family
Tree that the students will create for their own project. Then they will
do a short presentation on their family and tell the class if they would
want to keep their family or change it to one from the past. The group
project will be a short skit that the students will put on in small groups
illustrating a specific family unit from the past assigned to the group.
Each group will have a different family unit and the students of the
class will be learning about that unit from the skit put on.

11. Contact Information
If any one has any questions or need to contact me for any reason
please do not hesitate to send me an email.
My email is: Cebowman@crimson.ua.edu