Students view a short film about a third-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors and explore the questions it raises about obligation, memory, and family.
Students view a short film about a third-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors and explore the questions it raises about obligation, memory, and family.
Students explore the historical basis for the modern human rights movement by examining the codes of ancient societies.
Students examine the pressures on European Jews as they moved away from the shtetls to larger urban centers at end of the nineteenth century.
Students define propaganda and practice an image-analysis activity on a piece of propaganda from Nazi Germany.
Students learn about several Holocaust memorials around the world in preparation to design their own memorial.
Students use maps of the world before and after World War I to make inferences and predictions about the ways the war changed the world.
Students discover the complexities of Martha Sharp's rescue project by analyzing historical correspondences.
Students read fictional biographies of German citizens and make hypotheses about the citizens' voting choices in the Weimar elections.
Students use the “levers of power” framework to identify ways they can bring about positive change in their communities.
Students use journaling and group discussion to respond to emotionally-challenging diary entries of a Jewish teenager confined in a Nazi ghetto.
Using a project-based learning approach, students produce a museum exhibition that displays the stories of different partisans.
Students examine the steps the Nazis took to replace democracy with dictatorship and draw conclusions about the values and institutions that make democracy possible.