Submitted by Ruthanne Weispfenning
Objectives:
Content:
Student will...
- begin to develop an understanding that their personal history began well before they were born by researching their family tree and organizing a pedigree chart.
Cultural:
Student will...
- be able to recognize that to learn more about their own history they have valuable resources to tap into in their living relatives by asking for help filling out the family pedigree chart.
Language: Content Obligatory
Student will...
- use expanded family tree vocabulary to complete a pedigree chart with appropriate correct, verifiable information.
Language: Content Compatible
Student will...
- explain their pedigree chart to the teacher using appropriate vocabulary for relatives relationships to them
- express dates as for birthdates etc.
Learning Strategies / Social and Skills Development:
Student will...
- ask questions for clarification.
- group both paternal and maternal lines appropriately
- follow the correct pattern for filling out a pedigree chart, for example females written on odd numbers and males on even.
Time Frame:
2 - 50 minute periods
Materials Needed:
Example of teacher's pedigree chart.
Geschichte Abenteuer Wortschatz (History Adventure Vocabulary - where to find proof)
Geschichte Abenteuer Wortschatz (History Adventure Vocabulary - family tree words)
Description of Assessment (Performance Project):
After being introduced on how to fill out and read a pedigree chart, students will be guided on how to fill in their own information, starting with themselves and continuing with mother, father, and grandparents on each side. Students are to record where the information came from and only record information that is certain.
Assessment:
An appropriately filled out personal pedigree chart at least through living grandpartents and extended as much as possible through great grandparents. This is followed by an interview with the teacher at which time the student explains in the target language the information on his or her chart.
References and Resources:
Website for Ancestors.com Lesson 203 -
http://byubroadcasting.org/ancestors/records/compiled/A teacher's pedigree chart as an example.
Attachments:
NOTE: some attachments are in PDF form (get Acrobat Reader)Geschichte Abenteuer Wortschatz (History Adventure Vocabulary - Family Tree words)
Geschichte Abenteuer Wortschatz (History Adventure Vocabulary - Where to find proof?