Many youth today are interested in tracing their roots. Some are more interested in the way they lived and others are interested in their ethnic customs. What can make genealogy alive for youth is to take them to a museum to show them the tools and objects of daily lives their ancestors would have used.
Teach them games or activities that would have been common a hundred years ago. For youth with artistic talent, have them create the family tree and incorporate the ethnic roots or a family coat of arms. Proudly hang it on your walls to remind your kids from where they came.