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Holocaust Lesson Plans
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8th graders research and develop an interest in the Holocaust. They evaluate each website they visit on the Holocaust. They fill out worksheets on the Holocaust as they visit each website available to them.
In this lesson students research and identify how Holocaust events affected lives of real people who lived in Europe from 1933 through 1945 and after, and create original artwork, poetry, and essays that reflect understanding of Holocaust, and its causes and effects.
Students reflect on the effects of the Holocaust and the events leading up to World War II. In this World History lesson, students complete several activities, including a WebQuest, that analyze the Holocaust and its repercussions.
Learners examine the Holocaust by using primary source documents. They focus on a person who immigrated to Wisconsin after surviving the Holocaust.
Students explore the events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust and create a time line showing how those events are connected. They create a time line showing the events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Learners write reactions to selected pictures of the Holocaust. They view selected online pictures about the Holocaust and write their reactions. They use their knowledge about the Holocaust to write reactions to pictures about this period.
Learners participate in an imaginary walk through a postwar European cemetery. They listen to the teacher read quotations from Fisch's memoir. Learners read aloud from "Light From the Yellow Star" in a choral fashion, then participate in discussions of the Holocaust.
Students research sources to select words, such as terms, place names, or people names, for each letter of the alphabet to best convey the history of the Holocaust.
Learners read and discuss an online collection of actual letters and documents of the Holocaust era.
Learners research the Holocaust and Anne Frank. They write descriptive paragraphs of an Internet website, write a personal reaction paragraph, create theatre design projects, and develop a narrative poem using biographical information.
