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These lessons and units demonstrate how our resources and our Scope and Sequence can be applied within a classroom setting. Since every learning context is unique, we expect educators to adapt these ideas to their own students' needs. Lessons typically include activities that run between one and two hours. Units are a series of lessons that address the same resource or theme.

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Exploring Obedience: Germany Under the Nazis

Deepen students' understanding of conformity and the role it played in the transformation of a democracy into a totalitarian state. This outline offers ways for students to examine the critical decisions facing German youth and citizens during the 1930s. The requirement to pledge an oath of allegiance to the Nazi Party presented citizens with a decision that affected themselves, their families and communities.

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Decision-Making in Times of Injustice
This curriculum is about more than the Holocaust. It's about the reading and the writing and the arithmetic of genocide, but it's also about such R's as rethinking, reflecting, and reasoning. It's about prejudice, discrimination and scapegoating; but it's also about human dignity, morality, law, and citizenship. It's about avoiding and forgetting, but it's also about civic courage and justice. In an age of "back to basics" this curriculum declares that there is one thing more basic, more sacred, than any of the three R's; namely, the sanctity of human life.
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Grades 11 & 12 Elective World History
The course draws from the content and methodology of Facing History and Ourselves. Facing History is an international education foundation focusing on curriculum and teacher

Holocaust and Human Behavior Unit Plan for Jewish Day Schools
This course is designed with middle and high school students in mind. The unit outline can and should be adapted to suit the needs of your class. The extent

Unit Plan for Supplementary Jewish Schools
The Facing History and Ourselves Jewish Education Project provides teachers in Jewish educational settings with training, support

United States History / World History - 11th Grade This unit will highlight the dramatically different ways Germany responded to the economic crisis.

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These lesson ideas are designed to provide classroom activities based on our resources. They show the application of our Scope and Sequence within a classroom setting. 

UDHR 1: Examining the Immediate Historical Context
UDHR 2: Universe of Obligation
UDHR 3: A Negotiated Document
UDHR 4: What is a Right?
UDHR 5: Fulfilling the Dream of the UDHR

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