Thanksgiving can present a great opportunity for kids to talk with aunts, uncles, grandparents, and other family members that they don’t frequently see during the rest of the year. StoryCorps recognized that and this fall launched a project called The Great Thanksgiving Listen.

The Great Thanksgiving Listen is an initiative intended to facilitate conversations between students and adult family members over Thankgiving weekend. StoryCorps has released a toolkit for teachers to use to guide students in the process of recording interviews with family members. The toolkit recommends using the StoryCorps mobile apps to capture the conversations. The StoryCorps mobile apps includes question prompts and a suggested script for conducting interviews.

NPR’s Steve Inskeep offers five interview tips in the video embedded below.