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FAMILY TREE ACTIVITY Materials Needed: Pens/crayons or scissors and glue if figures are cut from magazines Activity Description: 1) Draw a picture or make a collage with photos from a magazine of what you would consider to be your nuclear or immediate family (remember, there are many different kinds of families: same sex parents, adopted families, foster families, step families, common law families - there is no one right way to describe a family).
Who are the members of your nuclear or immediate family:What are their names? What relation to you are they?What are their age's? What generation are they? (A generation is 30 years or more difference between people's ages. Example: if I'm 10 and my mom is 40, she is one generation older than I am).Do you have any siblings (brothers or sisters?)Describe what they're like. 2) Draw a picture of what you would consider to be your extended or greater family:
What are the names of your paternal grandparents? (Your father's mom and dad)What are the names of your maternal grandparents? (Your mom's mother and father)Who are your paternal aunts and uncles? Do you have any cousins from the paternal side of the family?Who are your maternal aunts and uncles? Do you have any cousins from thematernal side of the family?3) Present your family to your class or friends, and have them present their families to you. Talk about your family members or tell them a story about one or two of them.For example: I have one brother who is much older than I am. He is very bossy, and is always out with his friends. 4) Brainstorm with your class or friends about some of the ways that families change. For example by:Birth; Adoption; Death; Marriage; Divorce Write all your ideas down on a big sheet of paper. Look at the ideas you have collected. Some topics for discussion might inclde: After a divorce, does Mom stop being Mom if she leaves dad with the children? Does Dad stop being Dad if he leaves mom with the children? When you get married do you give up the family you were in to create a new family? What part of the family changes when a family member goes away to work or goes to school? What does it mean when someone says, "my friends are my real family-". 5) Write down what you predict might happen, or what you want to happen, in your family as the children grow up and prepare to leave: I might get married when I grow up. I might adopt or have children one day. Mom might remarry after she and dad divorce. My Grandpa may not live with us in ten years because he might die by then. |
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How do the media influence your idea of what the family should be or shouldn't be? What ideas about family do TV shows, movies or books present? Is this accurate when compared with your family?7)
What do you, and your classmates or friends feel are a parent's basic responsibilities to a child?
- How do we learn these responsibilities? What models are there?
- Who, besides parents, provide most or all of this care?
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