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Holocaust

For Educators in Jewish Settings: Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior

Our five new lessons help you incorporate the Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior unit more holistically in your classrooms. 

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Democracy & Civic Engagement

10 Questions for Young Changemakers

This unit uses the 10 Questions Framework to explore two examples of youth activism: the 1963 Chicago schools boycott and the present-day movement against gun violence launched by Parkland students.

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Democracy & Civic Engagement

American Idealist

This unit, designed to accompany the film American Idealist, explores idealism, public service, and public policy through the career of American statesman and activist Sargent Shriver.

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Democracy & Civic Engagement

Confronting Apartheid

Explore South Africa’s tumultuous history from the early interactions between white European settlers and native African tribes to the implementation of apartheid and the long struggle for democracy.

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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Media Literacy
Race in US History

Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age

Help students become informed and effective civic participants in today's digital landscape. This unit is designed to develop students' critical thinking, news literacy, civic engagement, and social-emotional skills and competencies.

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Holocaust

Interpreting the Works of Samuel Bak

In this unit students experience how art can serve as a tool to understanding history by analyzing paintings by renowned artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak.

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Holocaust

Resistance during the Holocaust: An Exploration of the Jewish Partisans

Deepen students’ understanding of resistance with these lessons that bring together the firsthand accounts of former Jewish partisans and historical context on the partisan movement.

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Democracy & Civic Engagement

Standing Up for Democracy

Designed for students in the United Kingdom, these lessons foster the critical thinking, mutual respect, and toleration necessary to bring about a more humane society.

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Holocaust
Resistance
Legacy

Teaching Who Will Write Our History

Invite students to reflect on why it matters who tells our stories as they view a documentary film about the profound courage and resistance of the Oyneg Shabes in the Warsaw ghetto.

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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Justice & Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This unit leads students through a deep exploration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the history of its creation to its legacy in today’s global community.

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Teaching Idea
Democracy & Civic Engagement

Assessing the Strength of Democracy

This Teaching Idea provides students with an opportunity to deepen their understanding of democracy and a framework for making meaning of news stories about the tensions and conflicts in democracies today.

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Teaching Idea
Democracy & Civic Engagement

After Parkland, Students Choose to Participate

As students take action after Florida's school shooting, introduce a framework for civic participation in your classroom. Facing History has also created suggested discussion questions to help you have the difficult conversations that follow traumatic violent events. Use these questions as a starting point to spark a dialogue around the ways youth can get involved, be Upstanders, and make their voices heard in their own communities.

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