Family Member Match

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Family Member Match
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mom
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dad
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aunt
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uncle
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sister
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brother
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grandmother
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grandfather
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pet dog
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pet cat
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family
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Family Member Match

• NCSS Curriculum Standards
• 1. Individual Development and Identity Strand
  4c describe the unique features of ones nuclear
  family and extended families
• 2. Individuals, Groups Institutions Strand
  5a identify roles as learned behavior patterns
  in group situations such as student, family, peer
  play, group member or club member)
• This is for pre-kindergarteners. It has been
  modified for students with severe and profound
  intellectual disabilities.

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This activity extends the story Families Are
Different by Nina Pelligrini into both a
matching game and a cause and effect activity.
By pressing the adapted mouse switch or touching
the screen the matching characters are activated.
Evaluation
Teacher observation of each student Anecdotal
notes on each student Art project for this
activity in each students portfolio Assessment
using this activitys rubric on each student
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• Instructions for the teacher
• (after engaging in the activity with the
  students)
• Using each students family photos or list of
  family member names have each student answer the
  following questions. Use hand over hand
  manipulation or independent manipulation,
  depending on their ability, to touch and count
  each picture. Document their answers in the
  anecdotal notes.
• How many people live in your family?
• How many brothers and sisters?
• How many pets?

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• ART
• Create a family tree- Paint the
• students arm and hand brown or gray.
• Print this on paper. Using the provided names
• paint dots (leaves, pinecones, etc) on the tree
  to present the different members. The dots can be
  painted in colors that
• represent the time of year such as green for
  summer or spring, multicolored for fall, or
  pinecones for winter.
• Label each dot with a family members name and
  relationship. Describe the activity and the
  relationships to each child during the art
  project.
• Create a family album - Using the pictures sent
  in glue the pictures onto paper in book form with
  each page labeled for family members. Use
  different textures on each page to represent each
  family member for a multi-sensory experience and
  for those students that have visual impairments.
  Use the family home or home setting as the cover.
  Describe the activity and the relationships to
  each child during the art project.

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• MATH
• Graph and count the family members living with
  them (mother, father, sisters, brothers, other
  family members, pets)
• How are the families the same and different?
• Set up a table in the school for a survey
  station.
• Using signs and voice output communication
  devices have the students survey the general
  education population about their family size. The
  general education students will put their surveys
  into numbered boxes that coordinate with the
  number of members in their families. Tally the
  surveys and create a graph in the class. Display
  the graph for the school to see.

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Rubric
Click Here for the Family Member
Match rubric