How to Create Your Own Lesson Plans Using Family Room Experiences
There is abundant excellent content online; how do you adapt it for your educational setting?
This short guide is a road map for choosing experiences in the Jewish Grandparents Network Family Room and adapting them for programs in educational settings.
It's a useful how-to for creating lesson plans around other web content too.
Includes how to: choose experiences that you think are best for your setting, establish goals, decide on the type of program (intergen or skip-gen, i.e., grandparents and grandchildren without parents), and plan and prepare.
For other ready-to-use program guides, see Taking Photos - Telling Stories Program Guide (JGN) and How to Make a Family Portrait — with Hanoch Piven (JGN). Search on Jewish Grandparents Network for all 8 program guides.
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- After School and Beyond
- Congregational Learning
- Day Schools and Yeshivas
- Teen Engagement
- Family Engagement
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