Personal & Family History Teaching Resources
A collection of teaching resources to assist you in teaching your students about their personal and family history. Use these posters, worksheets, unit and lesson plans, vocabulary word walls and activities to comprehensively look at individual personal and family histories. Resources available cover topics titled Daily Life: Then and Now, Celebrations Around the World and All About Family.
- Plus Plan
Learning About the Past PowerPoint
Use this 15-slide editable PowerPoint template when introducing younger students to historical sources.
- Plus Plan
A Very Special Memory – Worksheet
Explore the role that photographs play in communicating the stories of our past with this simple worksheet.
- Plus Plan
A Very Special Object – Worksheet
Explore the role that objects play in communicating the stories of our past with this simple worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Who Lives at My Place? – Template
A 'lift the flaps' template where students display the family members that live in their home.
- Plus Plan
Being Careful with a New Baby Poster
A poster explaining to students how to behave around a new baby.
- Plus Plan
New Baby Poster
A poster encouraging students to talk about their feelings when there is a new baby in the family.
- Plus Plan
All About My Family Mini Booklet
A template for students to complete all about their family.
- Plus Plan
All About My Family - Interview
A worksheet to use in the classroom when learning about families.
- Plus Plan
Passport To My Heritage - Worksheet
A recording worksheet for students to use in the classroom when researching their own heritage.
- Plus Plan
Celebrations Around the World - PowerPoint
A 28 slide editable PowerPoint Template to use when exploring the topic of celebrations.
- Plus Plan
Exploring My Local Community - History Word Wall Vocabulary
20 vocabulary cards about exploring the local community.
- Plus Plan
Build a Family Tree - Template
A versatile resource to use when exploring family history with your students.
- Plus Plan
Time Capsule Worksheets
Worksheets to make a class time capsule.
- Plus Plan
Exploring Yesterday and Today - History Word Wall Vocabulary
27 exploring yesterday and today vocabulary cards.
- Plus Plan
Investigating Time - History Word Wall Vocabulary
Eighty-six investigating time related vocabulary cards.
- Plus Plan
Biography Timeline Template
Use this multipurpose timeline template for a variety of assignments, projects, and more!
- Plus Plan
A Comparison of Daily Life - Assessment Task
An open-ended assessment task for students to demonstrate their understanding of how toys, modes of transport and communication devices and their uses have changed over time.
- Plus Plan
Celebrations - Teaching Resource Pack
A comprehensive pack including posters, activities and worksheets about celebrations from around the world.
- Plus Plan
Daily Life - Then and Now Unit Plan
This History unit covers a range of concepts relating to how daily life of the present is different from the past and how it could change in the future.
- Plus Plan
A Comparison of Daily Life - Assessment Task
An inquiry-based assessment task in which students will demonstrate how their world is different from the past and how it might change in the future.
- Plus Plan
Communicating Through Time
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explain how communication devices have changed over time.
- Plus Plan
Let's Communicate!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explain how we communicate with others.
- Plus Plan
Transport - Then and Now
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare past and present transport and describe how it has changed over time.
- Plus Plan
A Life with Transport
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify different types of modern transport and how they are used.
- Plus Plan
Toys From the Past
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare toys from the past with the present.
- Plus Plan
Toys From Today
A 60 minute lesson in which students will describe the features of a present day toy.
- Plus Plan
Identifying and Classifying Toys
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify an everyday object as a toy and describe how it is used in daily life.
- Plus Plan
Family Life - Then and Now
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare daily family life from the past with the present.