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.
- Intergenerational Learning
- Not Grade Specific
- After School and Beyond
- Congregational Learning
- Day Schools and Yeshivas
- Teen Engagement
- Family Engagement
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Mensch-ify is an alternative learning program that is held twice a month for families with children in Pre-K to 6th grade. It is a developmentally appropriate program, built upon the parent-child co-learning experience, that combines stories, songs, art, movement, and play to provide families with the tools they need to live a Jewish life that works for them.
Make An Illustrated Scroll Activity featuring weekly adapted portions, discussion questions, and illustration ideas.
Temple Beth-El of Great Neck, NY. FACEtime learners meet once a week face-to-face as a class, meet individually with a Hebrew coach either on skype or face-to-face, and engage in eight family learning experiences during the school year.