Climbing Trees - Inspiring children with family history (110)

This course provides lots of practical activities, ideas, and guidance for sharing your genealogy knowledge and enthusiasm with your children and grandchildren (aimed at those 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. This course looks 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. We use 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 online material about people in the past aimed at children, as well as ways to digitally present and share your children's projects in a simple and easy way. We also show you how working with your children on a family history project can help them with their learning skills in school. You will 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 own children / grandchildren. All activities include a simple list of resources needed before you embark on a project.

The course assumes that you, the adult, have a basic grasp of genealogy websites and research, that you have gone some way to constructing your own tree, and ideally also have some family photographs to share.