Family Heritage Project

Subjects:  Language Arts, Social Studies, Information Literacy

Grade:  4

Technology tools:  Laptop(s)

Tools used:  Digital text / ebook, Word processing

Activity type:  Lesson, Unit, Project, Assessment, Research, State Writing Assessment

Students interviewed their oldest living relative as part of the Family Heritage Project. The asked the person a series of 18 questions that compared and contrasted their own life to that of the interviewee.   The word processing skills gained have impacted the many, many other projects and technology integration we do on a daily basis in our classroom.

Students then composed specific information into a paragraph outline to create a 6 paragraph paper.  Students were able to edit, use word-processing skills, connect Language Arts skills and edit documents like you would in a real News Reporting room.

This part of the project was also the State Writing prompt for our school. Students used the finished documents to create a lovely family treasure for year's to come.

Students met with teacher to look at text features, content, and go through the writing process.

Cynthia Thompson-Schmidt, Jenkins Elementary