Home School Heartbeat Radio Program
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A newspaper announcement about a family history-related event read, “Bring your favorite deceased relative!” While you might not go to those lengths, there are a lot of projects you can do in your homeschool to teach family history! On today’s Home School Heartbeat, HSLDA President Mike Smith offers some suggestions. Mike Smith: One great place to start is by helping your students create a family tree. Working back from your family, have your kids list themselves and their siblings on one row, their parents on the row above, each side’s grandparents, and so forth. They could use different colors to delineate family branches or paste in copies of pictures to help visualize who’s who. Younger children might only get back to their grandparents, but your older students could create an elaborate family tree, depending on how much genealogy you have traced. You can purchase butcher paper from an art or school supply provider and display your family tree in a prominent place in your home. A great way to preserve memories of your family and motivate your student is to incorporate technology. Let your child set up a studio and make audio or video recordings of interviews with grandparents, great-grandparents, or great-aunts and -uncles. You can find suggested questions for oral history interviews in books or online. Consider incorporating writing assignments into your family history study by having your students write up the stories they hear or an account of their experience conducting interviews. On our next program, we’ll broaden the focus to include ideas for studying cultural heritage. And until then, I’m Mike Smith.
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