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2020 Collaborative Summer Library Program Resources from the

Indiana Young Readers Center

Included inside! · Program for Grades K-5: Tell Your Own Family Story Program Plan Personal Family Tree Craft Documents and Items from the Past Handout Genealogy Resources at the Indiana State Library Brochure

· Program for Grades 6-12: Exploring Old Diaries Program Plan Exploring Old Diaries Handout Packet Slides for Exploring Old Diaries Program

· Book Lists: Indiana Authors for Various Ages for the 2020 CSLP Theme

The Indiana Young Readers Center has prepared these resources to help with your summer program plans. Feel free to use them in whatever way works for you. We’d love to hear if they helped you out! Email us at youngreaderscenter@library.in.gov to let us know.

Artwork and theme used by permission of the Collaborative Summer Library Program.

Tell Your Own Family Story 50-90 Minute Program for Grades K - 5

You Will Need:

· Books for reading and sharing. Consider any of these titles: Fancy Nancy: My Family History by Jane O’Connor Lucy’s Family Tree by Karen Halvorsen Schreck My Family Tree and Me by Dusan Petricic Henry and Mudge in the Family Trees by Cynthia Rylant The Memory String by Eve Bunting Me and My Family Tree by Joan Sweeney Evie Finds Her Family Tree by Indiana author Ashley B. Ransburg Climb the Family Tree, Jesse Bear! by Nancy White Carlstrom

· Craft supplies to make a personal family tree (see craft on following page).

· Handout for each participant (especially appropriate for older children, included in this guide).

· Magnifying glasses for each participant, if you are using the handout. If they are in short supply, participants can work in pairs. Inexpensive, small magnifying glasses will be all you need.

The Program:

· Start by having a discussion about genealogy. What is it? How do we find out the history of our families? Talk about what makes up a family. Be sure to remind children that no two families are alike and that some people might include friends and even pets in their family. (10 - 15 minutes)

· Read one or two picture books about families & family trees (see above for list). (10 - 20 minutes)

· With older children, read through the included handout together. Items similar to these can be found by using resources available at the Indiana State Library. If you have the technology to do so, have the children search the Indiana State Library’s online genealogy resources. A tri-fold brochure is included to help you. (10 - 25 minutes)

· With younger children, discuss family stories. Tell one from your family and see if the children can tell any of their own. Do a few rhymes or finger-plays. (10-25 minutes)

Some families are large (spread arms out wide) Some families are small (bring arms close together) But I love my family (cross arms over chest) best of all!

· Make the Personal Family Tree craft on the next page. (20-30 minutes)

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Personal Family Tree Craft

· The students will make a simple family tree craft. These are not meant to be researched or accurate, butrather to reflect the student’s personal lives. They are welcome to include friends, family members andeven pets on their tree. Remember, families can sometimes be a sensitive topic for children.

· Start by copying or tracing this tree template onto brown paper. You (or a volunteer) can pre-cut these ifthe children are small.

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· Prepare leaves by either pre-cutting them in a variety of shapes and sizes, or having the children trace orcut their own leaf shapes (templates below). Consider using apples or acorns for added variety.

· Give each child one large sheet of construction paper. We used 12” by 18” in the example below. Havethem glue their tree and some leaves on the paper to represent their family and friends.

· Using markers, have the children write their name on one leaf and friends and family names on otherleaves. For older children, have them add some details about themselves and two other family memberssuch as hobbies, where they lived and what they like.

· Note: Families come in all shapes and sizes. Be considerate of all the different kinds of families representedin your program.

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The Indiana State Library has resources available to help you discover more about your genealogy. Genealogy is the study of your family history. Documents and items from the past can help you discover facts about your history. Similar documents might be available about your family.

This is a birth certificate. This shows that a child was born on February 3, 1910. That was a long time ago! His name was Robert Douglas Walker.

From this document we can see that his father’s name was R. E. Walker and his mother’s name is Celia E. Hill. They lived in Texas.

A researcher might be excited to find this because it provides a maiden-name for the mother. A maiden-name is the last name of a person before they had a legal name change, usually due to getting married. Knowing the maiden-name would be essential to researching the mother's history.

It might be hard for you to read this, because it is written in cursive!

Tell Your Own Family Story

This is a Draft Registration Card from World War II. The child who was born in 1910 is now 30 years old. We can see that Robert moved to Indianapolis. We have a full name for his mother and an address. Researchers would be excited to learn the name of the place where Robert worked.

This is the front of a grave marker. From this we can see that the baby who was born in 1910, lived to be around 88 years old.

We can see that he married a woman named Agnes, but we do not have her maiden name.

Sometimes grave markers provide a lot of information and sometimes, like in this case, there is just a little bit of information.

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Tell Your Own Family Story

Genealogy Resources

for K-12 Educators

and Parents

Print Resources

A Kids Guide to Genealogy (4 Book Series). Hallandale,

Florida: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2012

Allen, Desmond Walls. Family Tree Detective: A Step-

by-Step Guide to Investigating Your Family History.

Cincinnati, Ohio: Family Tree Books, 2011.

Beller, Susan Provost. Roots for Kids: A Genealogical

Guide for Young People. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical

Publishing Co., 2007.

Croom, Emily Ann. Unpuzzling Your Past. Balti-

more, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2010.

Exp Updtd and Revised 4th Edition. Douglas, Ann. The Family Tree Detective: Cracking

the Case of Your Family’s Story. NY, NY: Firefly Books,

1999. (Recommended for grades 4-8 by School Library Journal)

Hasler, Brian. Casper and Catherine Move to America,

An Immigrant Family’s Adventures, 1849-1850. Indian-

apolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2003.

Leavitt, Caroline and Phillips, Ian. The Kids’ Family Tree

Book. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co., 2007.

Perl, Lila. The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Find-

ing Out Who You Are. New York, NY: Clarion, 1990.

(Recommended for grades 5-9 by School Library Journal)

Ransburg, Ashley B. Evie Finds Her Family Tree. Indian-

apolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2006.

Sweeney, Joan. Me and My Family Tree. New York, NY:

Crown Publishers, 1999.

Waddell, Dan. Who Do You Think You Are? Be a

Family Tree Detective. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick

Press, 2011.

Online Resources

National Genealogy Society (NGS) Youth Resources:

www.ngsgenealogy.org/galleries/awards_files/

Suggested_references.pdf

The Indiana Junior Historian special issues: Collecting

Your History: www.in.gov/history/files/7003.pdf

Unlocking the Past: www.in.gov/history/files/7019.pdf

FamilySearch Research Wiki: www.familysearch.org/

learn/wiki/en/Involve_Children_and_Youth_in_Family_History Zap the Grandma Gap

https://zapthegrandmagap.com/

Other Genealogy Resources for Educators

Facilitate a personal connection to

the past for your K-12 students by

incorporating standards-based

family history lessons

into your curriculum!

INDIANA STATE LIBRARY

Genealogy Collection

315 West Ohio Street

Indianapolis, IN 46202

Phone: 317.232.3689

www.IN.gov/library

Genealogy Homepage

www.IN.gov/library/genealogy.htm

Reference Assistance

www.IN.gov/library/ask.htm

Indiana Digital Archives

www.indianadigitalarchives.org Revised May 2017

INDIANA STATE LIBRARY

Genealogy Collection

315 West Ohio Street

Indianapolis, IN 46202

Phone: 317.232.3689

www.IN.gov/library

What might be considered the most

interesting and dynamic events in history

have never been recorded. The people and

events a student reads about in a

history textbook constitute only a small part

of the past, and may not seem

relevant to his or her own life at all.

Educators meet a

constant challenge: to

inspire students to

discover the past as a

way to better under-

stand the present. Family

history is one vehicle by

which certain K-12

Indiana Academic

Standards can be

delivered in a

meaningful and authentic

way to students today.

The Indiana State Library

has compiled the resources in this brochure

to help educators bridge the gap between

yesterday and today for Indiana’s young peo-

ple, and to do so in keeping with state stand-

ards. Here’s to using family history as a way

to engage students!

K.1.1: Compare children and families of today with

those from the past.

K.3.6: Identify and compare similarities and differences

in families, classmates, neighbors and neighbor-

hoods, and ethnic and cultural groups.

1.1.1: Compare the way individuals in the communitylived in the past with the way they live in the pre-

sent.

2.1.3: Identify individuals who had a positive impact on

the local community.

2.1.5: Develop a simple timeline of important events in

the history of the school and/or school community.

3.1.2: Explain why and how the local community was

established and identify its founders & early settlers.

3.2.7: Use information from a variety of resources to

demonstrate an understanding of local, state and

regional leaders and civic issues.

8.1.30: Using primary and secondary sources, analyzean issue confronting the United States from

colonial times through the Reconstruction period.

B.4.1: Develop and revise a model that clarifies the

relationship between DNA and chromosomes in coding the instructions for characteristic traits

passed from parents to offspring. S.2.9: Prepare original written and oral reports and

presentations on specific events, people or

historical eras as related to sociological research.

WH.7.2: Locate & analyze primary sources and second

sources related to an event or issue of the past.

WH.7.5: Use technology in the process of conducting

historical research and to present products of histori-

cal research.

While the standards above are applicable to using family history

research in the classroom, many other academic standards are

also pertinent! To view all of Indiana’s Academic Standards, visit

http://www.doe.in.gov/standards

Grades K-5

Diagram Your Family: www.lessonplanspage.com/

SSFamiliesDiagrams12.htm

Family History: www.atozteacherstuff.com/

pages/301.shtml

Mapping Out a Family Tree: www.teachnet.com/

lesson/misc/familytrees040199.html

Personal Timelines for Kids: oureveryday-

life.globalpost.com/time-line-activity-kids-1484.html

We Are History—Family Stories:

www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/we-are-

history-family-stories

Where I Come From: https://edsitement.neh.gov/

lesson-plan/where-i-come

Grades 6-8

Library of congress–Immigration and Oral His-

tory: www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/

lessons/oral-history/

Family History Project Grades 6-8:

http://www.grammarface.com/resources/family-

history-project/

A Guide on Family Tree School Projects :

http://www.brighthubeducation.com/middle-school-

social-studies-lessons/76978-assigning-a-family-

treeschoolproject/?cid=parsely_rec

Grades 9-12

All in the Family—Discovering Relatives and

the Genetic Connections Between Them:

https://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/all-in-the-

family-6th-12th America Dreams through the Decades: http://

www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/

american-dream/ Cemeteries Are Historical, Not Solely Grave:

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/1998/10/30/

cemeteries-are-historical-not-solely-grave/?_r=0 Immigration Builds a Nation:

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/

lesson204.shtml

Selected Indiana Social Studies

Standards Relating to Genealogy

Each person is a

part of history in

a larger sense,

and introducing

family history

into the K-12

curriculum

brings this

concept to life

for students.

Genealogy: Making History

Relevant for Students

Family History Lessons &

Activities: Links for Educators

Exploring Old Diaries and Writing Your Own Story

A 50-90 Minute Program for Grades 6-12

You Will Need:

· Magnifying glasses for each participants. If they are in short supply, participants can work in pairs. Inexpensive, small magnifying glasses will work great for this program.

· A copy of the Handout Packet for each participant. If it feels too long, consider just using a few pages of the packet. Feel free to print in black and white instead of full color.

· Craft supplies to make one or more diary crafts suggested here.

· Optional: Some old diaries to share. Your library may have some in their collection, or you may have some old ones from your own life. (Teens would love that!)

· Optional: Technology to share the PDF Slides included (simply change the view to full screen).

The Program:

· Start by having a discussion about diaries. Why have people written them? Why do people keep older diaries instead of throwing them away? If you have some older diaries on hand, let the participants look through them and read interesting passages out loud. Use the provided PDF slides if desired. (10 - 15 minutes)

· Work through the Handout Packet together. Give the participants ample time to examine the diary fragments with their magnifying glasses. Be prepared for the handwriting to be very difficult for your participants to read. Transcripts are included for all diary fragments. Use the provided PDF slides if desired. (20 - 30 minutes)

· Make a diary craft. No specific crafts are included here, but you could look for the following ideas online: decorating notebook covers / easy 8 page mini-book / paper-bag book / popsicle stick book binding / diary crafts / journal crafts. (15 - 35 minutes)

· Set some time aside at the end of the program for your participants to write their first diary entry in their new diaries. (5-10 minutes)

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The diary entry below was written by Alice Perkins, a young woman who lived in Rising Sun, Indiana. She kept this diary from January 1 to July 9, 1895. What does it say? What can we learn about life in the 1890’s by reading documents like old journals or letters?

Can people in the future learn about life today by reading your diary? Do you write on a computer or in a notebook? Some people worry that the history of people living today will be lost because we do not use paper for things like messages and journals. Instead we use email or websites. Email and websites may not be available to future researchers. What might they use instead to understand how we live today?

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Exploring Old Diaries and Writing Your Own Story

Discussion:

Why have people written diaries and journals throughout history?

Why would you write one today?

Discussion:

Why save an old diary or journal instead of just throwing it away?

Let’s learn about the past by examining old diaries…

Handout Time!

Books by Indiana Authors for the theme IMAGINE YOUR STORY™

Young Readers The Eensy Weensy Spider Freaks Out by Troy Cummings

Clever Jack Take the Cake by Candace Fleming

Gator Gumbo by Candace Fleming

Kate’s Giants by Valiska Gregory

The Mightiest by Keiko Kasza

The Dog Who Cried Wolf by Keiko Kasza

Middle Grade

The Notebook of Doom by Troy Cummings

Through the Mickle Wood by Valiska Gregory

Legends of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

First Painter by Katheryn Lasky

Guardians of Ga’hoole, by Kathryn Lasky

Cowardly Clyde by Bill Peet

Grumbles From the Town by Jane Yolen & Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Grumbles From the Forest by Jane Yolen & Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Teens and Tweens

Standard Hero Behavior by John David Anderson

The Lacemaker and the Princess by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Oddity by Sarah Cannon

The Empress of Otherworld by Carey Michael Dalton

Life of Zarf by Rob Harrell

The Gathering Dark by Christine Johnson

Daughters of the Sea by Kathryn Lasky

The Ugly Goddess by Elsa Marston

Mistwalker by Saundra Mitchell