Materials for Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
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- History
- Social Studies
Grade
6–12Language
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This page is designed for educators using Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior. It contains all of the videos, teaching strategies, and other digital resources referenced throughout the guide.
This collection contains all of the digital resources used in Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior, which includes:
- 39 videos
- 101 readings
- 45 handouts
- 33 teaching strategies
- Additional recommended resources
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Journals in the Classroom
Word Wall
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
Lesson 1: Introduction to the Unit
Letter to Students
Letter to Parents and Guardians
Classroom Experience Checklist
Sample Facing History Classroom Expectations
Read Aloud
Journals in the Classroom
Lesson 2: Exploring Identity
Words Matter
Finding Confidence
Finding One's Voice
Gender and Identity
Being Jewish in the United States
The Individual and Society
Identity Charts
Jigsaw: Developing Community and Disseminating Knowledge
Word Wall
Read Aloud
Lesson 3: Stereotypes and "Single Stories"
The Danger of a Single Story
The Danger of a Single Story
Little Things Are Big
The Danger of a Single Story Viewing/Reading Guide
Street Calculus
Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World
Concept Maps: Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate
Think-Pair-Share
Concentric Circles
Wraparound
Word Wall
Lesson 4: Universe of Obligation
Universe of Obligation
We and They
What Do We Do with a Difference?
Understanding Strangers
Universe of Obligation
Think-Pair-Share
Word Wall
Unit Assessment: Step 1
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
Anticipation Guides
Four Corners
Think-Pair-Share
Exit Tickets
Dissecting the Prompt
Lesson 5: The Concept of Race
Growing Up with Racism
Preparing Students for Difficult Conversations
What Do We Do with a Difference?
Which One of These Things Is Not Like the Others?
Race: The Power of an Illusion (The Difference Between Us)
Race and Racism
A Class Divided
We and They
3-2-1
Exit Tickets
Word Wall
Lesson 6: The Roots and Impact of Antisemitism
“We Don’t Control America” and Other Myths, Part 1
“We Don’t Control America” and Other Myths, Part 2
“We Don’t Control America” and Other Myths, Part 3
Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment
From Religious Prejudice to Antisemitism
Overview of Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism
The Ancient Roots of Anti-Judaism
Antisemitism from the Enlightenment to World War I
Word Wall
Lesson 7: World War I and Its Aftermath in Germany
The Brutal Realities of World War I
Negotiating Peace
The Beginning of World War I
Disillusion on the Battlefield
Signing the Armistice
World War I in Europe and the Middle East
John Singer Sargent, Gassed, 1919
Otto Dix, Verwundeter (Wounded Soldier), 1924
Think-Pair-Share
K-W-L Charts
3-2-1
Wraparound
World War: Choices and Consequences
Jigsaw: Developing Community and Disseminating Knowledge
Lesson 8: The Weimar Republic
Defining Democracy
Introduction to the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic Images
Education in the Weimar Republic
Voices in the Dark
Hyperinflation and the Great Depression
Women in the Weimar Republic
The Bubbling Cauldron
Word Wall
Unit Assessment: Step 2
Two-Minute Interview
Annotating and Paraphrasing Sources
The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
Give One, Get One
Exit Tickets
Evidence Logs
Lesson 9: The Rise of the Nazi Party
National Socialist German Workers’ Party Platform
Hitler in Power
Choices in Weimar Republic Elections
Hitler's Rise to Power: 1918-1933
Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1918-1933 Viewing Guide
What did the Nazis Believe?
1932 Election Results
1932 German Election Ballot
Think-Pair-Share
Read Aloud
Word Wall
Lesson 10: European Jewish Life before World War II
Pre-War Jewish Life in Eastern Europe
Photo Analysis of Prewar Jewish Life
A Day in Warsaw
Sholem Aleichem: Understanding the Life of Shtetl Jews
Word Wall
Wraparound
Lesson 11: Dismantling Democracy
Shaping Public Opinion
Targeting Jews
"Restoring" Germany's Civil Service
Where They Burn Books...
Isolating Homosexuals
Storm Troopers, Elite Guards, and Secret Police
Spying on Family and Friends
Speaking in Whispers
From Democracy to Dictatorship
Hitler's Rise to Power: 1933-1934
Hitler’s Rise to Power: 1933–1934 Viewing Guide
Democracy to Dictatorship Reading Analysis
Hitler's First Victims
Fishbowl
Word Wall
Lesson 12: Do You Take the Oath?
Pledging Allegiance
Do You Take the Oath?
Refusing to Pledge Allegiance
No Time to Think
Working Toward the Führer
Read Aloud
Exit Tickets
Word Wall
Found Poems
Socratic Seminar
Lifted Line Poem
Save the Last Word for Me
Lesson 13: Laws and the National Community
Discovering Jewish Blood
The Common Interest before Self-Interest
Breeding the New German "Race"
A Wave of Discrimination
First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law
Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, Part 1
Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, Part 2
A Class Divided
Think-Pair-Share
Big Paper: Building a Silent Conversation
Word Wall
Connect, Extend, Challenge
Unit Assessment: Step 3
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
Give One, Get One
Exit Tickets
Lesson 14: The Power of Propaganda
The Impact of Propaganda
The Eternal Jew
Nazi Recruitment Propaganda
Hitler Youth Propaganda
Propaganda during World War I: An Appeal to You!
Art as Propaganda: The Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibit
Triumph of the Will Propaganda Film
The Impact of Nazi Propaganda: Visual Essay
Think-Pair-Share
Crop It
Read Aloud
Word Wall
Connect, Extend, Challenge
Close Viewing Protocol
Lesson 15: Youth and the National Community
Four Corners
Big Paper: Building a Silent Conversation
Connect, Extend, Challenge
Word Wall
Models of Obedience
Even If All Others Do—I Do Not!
The Birthday Party
Youth in Society Anticipation Guide
Changes at School under the Nazis
Friendship and Betrayal
Youth in Nazi Germany Reading Set 1
Youth in Nazi Germany Reading Set 2
Lesson 16: Kristallnacht
The Night of the Pogrom
Opportunism during Kristallnacht
A Family Responds to Kristallnacht
Thoroughly Reprehensible Behavior
A Visitor’s Perspective on Kristallnacht
World Responses to Kristallnacht
The Hangman
Nazi Telegram with Instructions for Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938
"Kristallnacht": The November 1938 Pogroms
Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms Viewing Guide
Elsbeth Lewin Remembers Kristallnacht
Decision-Making in Times of Fear and Crisis
The Range of Human Behavior Vocabulary Terms
Connect, Extend, Challenge
Think-Pair-Share
Wraparound
Exit Tickets
Word Wall
Lesson 17: Responding to a Refugee Crisis
Jewish Refugees from Austria
The Evian Conference
World Responses to Kristallnacht
Memory and Decision Making in Europe Today
Turned Away on the M.S. St. Louis
Preparing for the Kindertransport
American Experience: America and the Holocaust
Open Aggression and World Responses
Barometer: Taking a Stand on Controversial Issues
Jigsaw: Developing Community and Disseminating Knowledge
S-I-T: Surprising, Interesting, Troubling
Word Wall
Connect, Extend, Challenge
Lesson 18: Race and Space
Colonizing Poland
“Cultural Missionaries”
The War against Poland: Speed and Brutality
Dividing Poland and Its People
"Unworthy to Live"
Bystanders at Hartheim Castle
Protesting Medical Killing
Hitler's Ideology: Race, Land, and Conquest
The Growth of Nazi Germany
League of German Girls in the Warthegau
Jews in German-Polish Border Town
Exhibit on Germany's Colonization of Poland
Bishop von Galen and the War against the Disabled
S-I-T: Surprising, Interesting, Troubling
Save the Last Word for Me
Word Wall
Unit Assessment: Step 4
Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn
Exit Tickets
Lesson 19: The Holocaust: Bearing Witness
Take This Giant Leap
A Basic Feeling of Human Dignity
Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
Teaching with Testimony
Choiceless Choices
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Resistance during the Holocaust: An Exploration of the Jewish Partisans
Step By Step: Phases of the Holocaust
Phases of the Holocaust
The Nazis in Vilna
Jewish Ghettos in Eastern Europe
Main Nazi Camps and Killing Sites
The Boy in the Warsaw Ghetto
Mobile Killing Units
Auschwitz
We May Not Have Another Chance
Diary from the Łódź Ghetto
Creating a Found Poem
Gallery Walk
Graffiti Boards
Read Aloud
Think-Pair-Share
Found Poems
Exit Tickets
Word Wall
Lesson 20: The Holocaust: The Range of Responses
A Commandant’s View
Bystanders at Hartheim Castle
Protests in Germany
Deciding to Act
Le Chambon: A Village Takes a Stand
Denmark: A Nation Takes Action
Reserve Police Battalion 101
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War
Facing History Scholar Reflections: Bystanders and Resisters
Perpetrators, Bystanders, Upstanders, and Rescuers
Choices and Consequences
Obedience: The Milgram Experiment
The Courage to Care
Life or Death in the Netherlands
Finding Safety in Italy
Weapons of the Spirit
Open Aggression and World Responses
A War for Race and Space
The Holocaust
Think-Pair-Share
3-2-1
Word Wall
Lesson 21: Justice and Judgement After the Holocaust
Establishing the Nuremberg Tribunal
The First Trial at Nuremberg
Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention
Transitional Justice in Germany
Transitional Justice in South Africa
Moral Luck and Dilemmas of Judgment
Justice after the Holocaust Anticipation Guide
Facing History Scholar Reflections: The Nuremberg Trials
An Overview of the Nuremberg Trials
Legacy and Memory
Word Wall
Barometer: Taking a Stand on Controversial Issues
Fishbowl
3-2-1
Exit Tickets
Four Corners
Unit Assessment: Step 5
Wraparound
Exit Tickets
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
Lesson 22: How Should We Remember?
After Charlottesville: Contested History and the Fight against Bigotry
Acknowledging the Past to Shape the Present
Creating a New Narrative
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial
Aschrott Fountain
Stolpersteine
Memorial to Roma and Sinti Victims of National Socialism
Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach
Shoes on the Danube Bank Memorial
Holocaust Memorials and Monuments
Jigsaw: Developing Community and Disseminating Knowledge
Word Wall
Lesson 23: Choosing to Participate
What Difference Can a Word Make?
Bullying at School
The Voices of Millions
Acknowledging the Past to Shape the Present
Seeking a Strategy that Works
Believing in Others
Walking with the Wind
Online Civic Participation
Analyzing Levers of Power
Choosing to Participate
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
Wraparound
Word Wall
Unit Assessment: Step 6
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
Rapid Writing
Fishbowl
Exit Tickets
Materials for Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
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