Teaching and learning materials

This activity gives students the opportunity to reflect on their family history and to relate it with nowadays’ sociocultural problems and globalisation. Pupils have to create their own family trees and pay attention to relatives who have emigrated, who were lesbians or homosexuals, who have been married to a foreigner, who have practised a different religion or who have spoken a different language. When the family trees are finished, they will discuss about their families and they will be more open-minded with immigrants because they will feel closer to them
This activity does not need a difficult preparation although the student has to do a research at home about his/her family. The teacher only has to prepare a sample of a family tree. It is also very flexible because, although the instructions are written in French, the activity can be done in any language.
The most important point to take into account is the teacher/monitor behaviour: he has to be very careful not to force students to talk about their family.

Approach: Intercultural

Type of material: xxxxxx

Source:
Direction de la Jeunesse et du Sport, Conseil de l’Europe. Activity from the Kit pédagogique Tous différentS-tous égaux (2nd edition).
http://www.eycb.coe.int/edupack/fr_25.html