Cultural Heritage Fair - Ideas for Projects
[Letter to Parents
- Examples from 2009
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Ideas for Projects
-Ideas for Boards - Timeline
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Project Plan
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Plan of Action
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Final Checklist]
Ideas for Projects
Family Roots:
Trace your family as far back as you can. Show where your ancestors came from, what
they did for work. Use maps, photographs, family artifacts, brief written descriptions
or other visual objects. You can pick one family member or several to trace, for
example, my Greek and Italian heritage, my grandmother from India, my grandfather's trip
to America through Angel Island. Many students choose their grandparents because they
have many stories to tell about WWII or their ancestors.
Favorite Family Recipes:
Prepare a dish the way it has been done in your family for past generations. Show with
written descriptions, charts or photos how this recipe was handed down from the past.
Describe some of your relatives from past generations and today who have prepared and
eaten this dish. You can also include a favorite dish in a project about your heritage
or foods from a particular country of your ancestors.
Music in my Family:
Do some research to find out what kinds of music have been the favorites of your parents,
grandparents, and even great-grandparents if you can go back that far. Make some recordings
of different types of music on a tape. Include photographs and written descriptions to show
the changes in the music from generation to generation. You could do this with musical
instruments as well.
Crafts at Home:
Pick a craft such as sewing, weaving, woodworking, quilting, woodcarving, glass blowing
or knitting that was done by some member of your family in the past. Perhaps someone in
your family is still doing this craft today. Find the oldest examples you can of the craft
and the tools, materials or implements that were used. Show how the craft has been passed
down through the generations. Use photos, objects, drawings or written descriptions to
tell your story.
Arts in Your Family:
Are there members of your family, past or present, that worked at any form of art?
This could include painting, drawing, sculpture, poetry, writing or some other type
of art. Show examples of the art and describe the people who did it. How did you or
your relatives learn to do this type of art?
Free Time:
What do you and your family do for enjoyment, for exercise, and to have a good time?
What are there sports, games, hobbies, pastimes that make life more fun for you
and your family. Use photographs, models, drawings or written descriptions to tell your
story, Some ideas: runners in your family, fly fishing in your family, etc.
The History of your Community Newspaper:
Research your local newspaperís history, get old copies of the paper, interview
reporters.
Other Ideas:
Religion
Jobs
Any other ideas, check with your teacher.
[Letter to Parents -
Examples from 2009
-
Ideas for Projects
- Ideas for Boards - Timeline
-
Project Plan
-
Plan of Action
-
Final Checklist]
