Until recently, the story of the children during the Holocaust was rarely told. This guide recounts the war-time experiences of three child survivors.
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Understanding bias and discrimination is integral to civics education because it relates to our civil rights. Students explore implicit bias and self-reflect about situations in which they have experienced or encountered everyday type of bias.
Increase students’ awareness about antisemitism post-Holocaust. Students will learn about the persistence of antisemitism in its contemporary forms andconsider the interconnectedness of all forms of oppression.
Help students understand the effects of the Holocaust on its most innocent victims—children—and analyze the violation of children’s rights during the Holocaust and during genocides that have taken place since.
Help students learn about the war crimes trials following World War II and examine the complex issues of responsibility and guilt within the context of the Nazi occupation of Europe.
Help studentsunderstand the political, legal, social, and emotional status of the Jewish survivors, and examinethe role of the liberators following the defeat of the Nazis at the end of World War II.
Students learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
Students explore Jewish resistance efforts during the Holocaust—focusing on the period from the establishment of the ghettos through the implementation of the “Final Solution.”
Teach students about one of humanity’s darkest chapters—the systematic mass murder of the Jews that came to be known as the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Students will learn about killing squads, Nazi extermination camps, and the perpetrators and collaborators who took part in the murder.
Using primary sources, students will learn about ghettos and the part they served in solvingthe so-called “Jewish problem.” Students will analyze the feelings of humiliation and loss of dignity in the ghettos and their responsesto unjust actions.
Students will learn about the Weimar Republic's democracyand examinehistorical events that allowed its breakdown between 1933 and 1939, leadingto the unfolding of anti-Jewish policies.
Studentslearn about the origins of antisemitism, explore how pre-Nazi antisemitism and Nazi racial ideology are similar and different and examine propaganda methods used to incite hate.
Teach students the value and importance of studying mass atrocity and genocide, in general, and the Holocaustin particular, with a special emphasis on visual history testimony.
August 2020 marksthe centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. Help high school students understand how racism played a role in Black women beingexcluded from the right to vote.
This high school lesson gives students the opportunity to analyze gender bias in presidential elections andexplore how sexism surfaces during campaigns, past and present.
Teach middle schoolstudents about "institutionalized gender discrimination” and the impact of Title IX through the perspective of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team's lawsuit against the U.S Soccer Federation.
This lesson plan helps 8-12 grade students explore and understand the current landscape of elected officials and Presidential hopefuls andhow the 2018 midterm electionbroke records and barriers regarding diversity.
Help elementary students understandthe language of bias in our lives and ways they can make a difference by exploringletter exchanges between 9-year-old Riley Morrison and NBA player Stephen Curry about the Curry 5's.
In the wake of the Tree of Life Synagogue deadly shooting, students explore the rise of antisemitic incidents nationwide, how the escalation of hate operates and how allyship can make a difference.
Could there really be a “gender gap” between what boys and girls earn for allowance? Elementary students explore the reasons for the gap and conduct their own survey.