While the concept of "family" is a fundamental part of elementary social studies curriculum, there is scant research regarding how the family unit is taught in the classroom. What is still largely missing from educational journals is mention of (a) various family "compositions," including foster, step, and adoptive parents, as well as multi-ethnic, interracial, and multigenerational arrangements and (b) marginalized family "experiences," including divorce, incarceration, displacement, poverty, military deployment, and deported parents. In this article, the authors describe a three-day unit on family through a school-university partnership. The unit offers a practical and more inclusive approach to teaching young children about the concept of family.