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Concentration Camp Lesson Plans
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Students explore the experiences of the people in the concentration camps at liberation during World War II. Students read an article on the Liberation of Belsen Concentration Camp and D-Day and report to the class.
Students compare and contrast concentration camps. For this World War II lesson, students examine photographs and documents from Jewish concentration camps in an effort to understand their function. Students complete worksheets that accompany this lesson.
Students explore personal characteristics of Jewish students in concentration camps and the ghetto and make a time capsule of events and photographs following survivors from the ghetto and concentration camps to freedom.
Students prepare a reaction statement about what they read. In this Holocaust instructional activity students read several personal accounts from the Holocaust. The students answer a series of questions related to the Nazis and their concentration camps.
Help 8th graders compare their diets to the diets of concentration camp prisoners. They will compare their diets to those of teenagers imprisoned in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Additionally they will create a spreadsheet and enter information in a personal diary. Suggested novels and links are included.
Students read and discuss an account of everyday life in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII. They assume the point of view of a prisoner and write a postcard to their families and then share the cards in class.
Eighth graders investigate the typical day in a concentration camp. In this Holocaust lesson, 8th graders read primary and secondary sources about the conditions of the camps. Students also conduct research about the Warsaw Ghetto, deportation, forced labor, liberation, and specific camps.
Learners trace and explain the antecedents, causes, major events, and global consequences of World War II, including the Holocaust. They assess the conditions of Jewish inhabitants of the Ghettos and death/concentration camps and the role they played during World War II.
Students distinguish between concentration, labor and death camps, describe conditions in concentration camps, read and discuss Night, by Elie Wiesel, and describe methods Nazis used to disguise true purpose of death camps and concentration camps.
Students state the difference between death camps and concentration camps used during the Holocaust. Using primary source documents, they summarize what life in the camp was like. They describe the final solution used by the Nazis.
