Teacher's Corner

 

 

Lesson Plans, Assignments, and Activities:

 

PBS World War II Lesson plans - This site offers multiple assignments which meet national standards. 

 

Discovery Education - This lesson plan meets state standards and gives kids an opportunity to learn about the Holocaust, their family history, and create a scrapbook page.

 

EDSITEment Lesson Plan - Students learn about the Holocaust resistance movement.

 

Children in Hiding During the Holocaust Assignment - Created by a retired teacher, this activity helps kids to understand what it would have been like to hide from the Nazis during the Holocaust.

 

Results of Death Camp Experiments: Should they be used? - PBS educates students on the different kinds of atrocities committed by Nazi Doctors, they are then asked to make a moral assessment of whether or not the results of the camp experiments should be used. 

 

The following lessons plans, assignments, and activities were created by an OHDELA (Ohio Distance Electronic Learning Academy) high school senior. They have been designed to help students understand the Holocaust and keep the victims of this violent time alive by not forgetting their stories.

 

Can We Forgive? - Students write a paper after watching "Forgiving Dr. Mengele" a documentary that documents the controversial declaration of forgiveness made by one Holocaust survivor.

 

GeNOWcide Research Based Paper - Students research current events and compare the mass murders of today with those of the Holocaust.

 

Holocaust Diary Assignment - Students are given the opportunity to write a research based dairy about a fictional character living during the Holocaust and WWII.

 

Nazi Railcar: Journey to the Concentration Camps - Kids get to experience first hand the crowded conditions of a Railcar, while hearing eyewitness accounts and reading historical information on the barbaric nature of deportation

 

The Paper Clip Project - Students learn the true stories of other kids who have made a difference in our world and then write a paper that proposes a plan of action to preserve history, relief suffering in the present, or protect the future.

 

Survival Rates - This lesson talks about the high death rates among Jewish children in the Holocaust

 

Think About It Project - Activity, student consider what our world would be missing if Hitler's Law for the Prevention of Hereditary diseases had been enforced globally. People such as Helen Keller, Agatha Christie and Vincent Van Gogh would have been robbed of the opportunity to bless the world with their talents.

 

YouTube Project - Students research the Holocaust and make a YouTube video based on their findings

 

 

 

Outside sources:

 

Learning How To Teach About the Holocaust - This online workshop was created by the USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), it is meant to prepare teachers for tackling this difficult topic

 

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - A great resource for teachers, including: timelines, vocabulary, charts, maps and original art by holocaust survivors

 

Holocaust Topics - You know you want to teach about the Holocaust but you might be having trouble deciding where to begin...check out this list of suggested topics (along with educational facts and information) at USHMM.org

 

Holocaust Resistance Assignment - An assignment put together by edsitement.ed meant to help students, grades 9-12, to understand the dynamics behind the anti-Nazi movement using timelines, primary sources, and historical information

 

Compassion Within the Ghettos - An assignment created for 7-9th graders, meant to help them understand the underground work done during the Holocaust to help victims survive in the Nazi ghettos.

 

Book list and summaries - A great site that provides a list of books (as well as plot summaries) for students of every age and educators

 

Holocaust Diary and Memoir - A wonderful list of eye witness account books, complete with book titles and one sentence summaries

 

Teaching the Holocaust - This site includes guidelines on how to teach about the Holocaust, along with numerous homework assignments and activities for students of every age

 

An Overview of the Holocaust for Teachers - Compiled by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this site is a great resource including exhaustive information, maps, timelines, and links to other sources

 

 

 

Teaching Resources:

Holocaust Encyclopedia - This is a wonderful resource including films, eyewitness accounts, maps, charts, articles, music, and links to other resources

 

USHMM.org for Teachers - A wonderful resource filled with lesson plans, tutorials, book suggestions, lesson aids, and more

 

HopeSite - a collection of resources for teachers