Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Not In My Backyard: Siting A Resource Recovery Facility

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students role play a town meeting in which a new resource facility could be built. They have time to question each other after all sides have presented.
Unit Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Final Solution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers can choose from a range of teaching material to present the subject of the Final Solution to students. Materials include lesson plans, archival materials, presentations, testimonies, video lectures, and primary sources.
Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Final Solution": Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Site created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to explain the Final Solution, the Nazi plan to exterminate all Jewish people. Site provides extensive information about the plan and the method by using pictures and written descriptions....
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Evolution of the Final Solution

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...
Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Defeat of Hitler: The Final Solution

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the German flood of anti-Jewish propaganda and the brutal methods used by the Nazis against the Jews in order to achieve their Final Solution.
Unit Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Berdichev: One of the Untold Stories

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learn the story of Berdichev, a Jewish community in Soviet controlled Ukraine to better understand the key stages of the Final Solution. The lesson is broken down into different topics each with background and reflective questions.
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Murder of the Jews of the Baltic States

For Students 9th - 10th
Hitler's Final Solution extended into the Baltic States with mass deportation and extermination of the Jewish people. Study background information and examine primary sources such as photos, testimonies, archival footage, video lectures,...
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Wannsee Conference

For Students 9th - 10th
The systematic murder of Jews on an industrial scale was the goal of Hitler's Final Solution and discussed at the Wannsee Conference. As a result of the conference. a network of extermination camps was established and 1.7 million Jews...
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Invasion of the Soviet Union and the Beginnings of Mass Murder

For Students 9th - 10th
Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and indiscriminately shot Jewish women and children because they were worthless and couldn't contribute to the workforce. Read a summary of this invasion and how it related to Hitler's Final...
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Death Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
The horrors of the extermination camps during the Holocaust are hard to wrap your mind around. The systematic killing of a group of people by gas or hard labor was part of Hitler's final solution. Read background information on these...
Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Creating a Stock Solution

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the virtual lab to create dilute solutions from a concentrated stock solution of acids or bases. They must first calculate the correct volumes of concentrated acid solution and water to mix together to...
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Marking the 50th Anniversary of Eichmann's Trial in Jerusalem

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit takes an in-depth look at the Eichmann Trial. Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi who had an active role the Final Solution. He was tried and convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. Read background on how...
Website
The History Place

The History Place: Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a lengthy biography of the principal planner of the Final Solution in Nazi Germany, Reinhard Heydrich. The information is somewhat in-depth and worth checking out on the subject.
PPT
The History Place

The History Place: Auschwitz Today

For Students 9th - 10th
The History Place provides a virtual slide show of photos taken from a walking tour of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.
Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Adolf Eichmann: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow a chronology of Adolf Eichmann's life and his participation in the "Final Solution" of the Nazis.
Interactive
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Main Nazi Camps and Killing Sites

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive map shows all the concentration camps, extermination camps, and other kill sites during the Holocaust. Click an icon to access a report on each camp. Also included is a background summary of the Final Solution, video...
Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Killing Centers: An Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
A disturbing accounting of the Nazis' Final Solution, the extermination camps where millions of Jews and others were gassed during the Holocaust. Included are hyperlinks to photographs, personal stories, and film footage.
Lesson Plan
New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: What's the Problem?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The aim of this unit is for students to develop their persuasive writing and information gathering skills using various forms of information and communication technology. It is hoped that the context of 'teenage problems' will provide an...
Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Introduction to the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
Online museum encyclopedia introduction of the Holocaust. Includes photographs, references for further reading, and links to related materials.
Activity
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Through Lens of the Ss

For Students 9th - 10th
A moving online exhibit of photographs from an album of a Nazi officer who was the commandant at Auschwitz. The accompanying commentary includes a video, podcast, and comparison of the photos of Nazi officials to those of the inhabitants...
Primary
The History Place

The History Place: The Wannsee Conference

For Students 9th - 10th
On January 20, 1942 a conference took place near Berlin convened to "coordinate the Final Solution of the Jewish Question", to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million people. You can read the minutes...
Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Auschwitz Birkenau

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jewish Virtual Library offers a detailed page explaining all aspects of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/death camp. Contains pictures, personal accounts, and the history of what happened there.
Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
The Holocaust (also called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period from January 30, 1933 - when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany - to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were...
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Death Marches

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...