Climbing Trees: How to get children interested in family history (#820)
Leave a legacy. Keep the family’s past alive. This is a big part of why genealogy is so fascinating. Family history is filled with stories about people you knew or, if you did not actually know them, you feel like you did because someone told the family stories to you. This course provides practical activities, ideas, and guidance for passing along your knowledge and enthusiasm to children or grandchildren between the ages of 7 and 11. Many children enjoy history at school and you can foster or awaken interest by adding a personal, family perspective. The lessons look at ways to make your family stories interesting and relevant, not only with respect to the context of past times but with some help from favourite fictional stories. The course looks at a wide range of material designed to excite children about their history and enable you, with them, to produce creative and colourful projects to treasure. The practical nature of the “make and do” project suggestions will get children involved, designing, doing and problem solving. The course explores and evaluates the wealth of on-line material about family history aimed at children, as well as ways to digitally present and share your children’s projects in a simple and easy way. The course also shows you how working with your children on a family history project can help them with their learning skills in school. During the course you consider how different children learn in different ways and each activity will show which particular skills are being used so you can cater your activities to the interests of your children. All activities include a simple list of resources needed before you embark on a project.
Instructor: Hannah Baker
Each lesson includes exercises and activities, and a minimum of 1 one-hour chat session per week. See How the Courses Work.
Relevant Countries: General