Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Have the children interview a grandparent or elder

Objective: To further the children’s knowledge of their family and their heritage.

Activity: Have the children interview a grandparent or an elderly member of their family.
Ask the following questions: Where did you live, near mountains, or water, or on a farm, in a city, or near a desert? What did you work at?
How did you get to school? What was church like? How did you pass the time in the evenings? What kind of vacations did you take? Where did you go? Tell an unusual story about something that happened to you when you were near my age.

Assessment: Quality of material that the children gather from the interviews.