Social Studies Lesson Plans

Family Unit

Last year, I had a social studies class in which my group did a unit on families. Here are some of the general ideas we had.

We proposed a study of family life over time (including the family structure and how it has changed, e.g. the introduction of extended family, same-sex parents, etc.).

Some ideas that span across subjects:
-Oregon Trail CD-ROM
-Quilting (as it represented family life many times in earlier times)
-Ancestry research
-family timelines
-interview Grandparents
-during election times, study how different candidates view family issues
-economics of family life (budgeting, banking, income, etc)
-how music has influenced family
-graphing *avg number of children in families over the years *mortality rates, etc
-how animal families are similar to and different from human families
-how inventions have influenced family life (science)
Submitted by: Kim