Our five new lessons help you incorporate the Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior unit more holistically in your classrooms.
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Creating Student Projects
Using a project-based learning approach, students produce a museum exhibition that displays the stories of different partisans.
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Jewish History and Memory: Why Study the Past?
Students prepare for their study of the Holocaust by reflecting on the ways in which memory is an integral part of Jewish identity.
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Jewish Identity and the Complexities of Dual or Multiple Belongings
Students continue to explore the question “Who am I?” by examining the concept of dual or multiple identities and reflecting on their own identities as Jews.
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Jewish Life before the Holocaust
Students learn about pre-war Jewish life and compare it with today’s diaspora in order to reflect on how modernity can impact tradition.
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Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
Students define the term resistance and then learn about the different ways that Jews resisted the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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Jewish Theological Dilemmas After the Holocaust
Students enter the conversation about the concept of “theodicy" through activities that allow them to explore the themes of faith and doubt after the Holocaust.
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Sonia Orbuch: Becoming a Partisan
Using a role identifying activity, students analyze the various roles undertaken by a teenage partisan during the Holocaust.
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Understanding Resistance
Students learn about the concept of resistance as they are introduced to firsthand experiences of the extraordinary Jewish partisans.
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Vitka Kempner: Identity and Resistance
Students consider how identity, and in particular how age and gender, shaped a partisan's actions.
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A Jew is Not One Thing
Jewish identity has many facets. This film explores the complexity and contradiction inherent in a diverse community.
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Combining Jewish Tradition with Science: Kathy Reynolds
Kathy Reynolds describes the project for which she won a Margot Stern Strom Award.
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