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Yellow Star of David Badge

This picture is of a yellow cloth Star of David with the word Jude, meaning Jew, in the center. Nazi's ordered Jewish people over six years of age to sew these stars on their clothing so that they could be identified.

Format: image/photograph

A remnant of the Warsaw Ghetto wall

Ivy covers part of this remnant of the Warsaw Ghetto wall. The brick section, which is found behind some apartment houses today, displays a couple of plaques and a map of the Ghetto.

Format: image/photograph

Teaching with disturbing images

Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used specifically to raise an...

By David Walbert.

Stories from the Holocaust

This lesson is designed to supplement a study of World War II. Students will read first hand accounts of individuals who escaped Nazi persecution and eventually settled in Asheville, North Carolina. This lesson may be used as an 8th grade Social Studies or English project(It could also be used as an integrated project), 10th grade English, or 11th grade US History. This lesson uses the NCEcho portal to access the material.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

By Billie Clemens.

Center for Diversity Education

The CDE is entirely curriculum-focused to assist teachers in embedding a knowledge base of many peoples into the daily content of the classroom in grades K-12. It is the mission of CDE to prepare all students with the necessary skills to maintain a pluralistic democracy in an increasingly complex and diverse nation and world.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Consider the source

Information is everywhere — especially in the presence of the Internet. It's hard enough for adults to make sure that information is valid, but it's even harder for students to make that judgement. Here are some suggestions for helping students learn to recognize bad information when they see it.

By Bobby Hobgood.

Differences across the curriculum: Part 1

Part of a set of lessons offering an integrated approach to exploring diversity with eighth graders, this lesson serves as a pre-reading activity for the drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Students will learn how diversity creates bias which leads to conflict, where students confront their bias and practice tolerance.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

By Lynn Carter.

Colors and symbols of stigmatization

This lesson is an introduction to the reading of Night by Elie Wiesel, which students will read independently. The students will do research to discover the different colors and symbols used to symbolize the Nazi party's list of undesirable people. The students will gain an understanding of how other people can arbitrarily judge other people as inferior.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)

By Sandra Hurd and Wilma Gale.

Comics in the classroom

Graphic novels aren't just “literature lite”: they're a genre you can use to explore philosophy, history, human interactions, visual literacy, and more with soon-to-be adults in a high school English class.

Format: article

By Ross White.

Managing a classroom with brain food

Tina Maples' eighth-grade language arts students are serious about their work they do. When students work on projects they care about — what Maples calls "brain food" — they manage the classroom themselves.

By Kathleen Casson.

Looking back - An Art/English interdisciplinary unit

This is an interdisciplinary unit that incorporates research of historical events of the past century. By students learning to recognize that society impacts the themes within art and literature, students then take this knowledge base and interview an individual to develop a biographical narrative, a collage, and oral presentation.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)

By Julie Osmon.

Immigration in U.S. history

In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.5

Tens of millions of immigrants over four centuries have made the United States what it is today. They came to make new lives and livelihoods in the New World; their hard work benefited themselves and their new home country.

Format: article

Respecting differences

This guidance and drama unit offers students the opportunity to identify prejudices and understand how certain character traits such as tolerance, respect, and kindness affect their choice of behavior. Since this lesson addresses sensitive issues, teachers should avoid situations that could be hurtful to individuals or groups. This unit can be adapted to almost any age group or ability level.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Development, Guidance, and Theater Arts Education)

By Daryl Walker and Judy Peele.

Children's literature promotes understanding

Bibliotherapy and critical literacy are two ways to use books to help children better understand themselves, others, and the world around them. This article explains both strategies and provides resources for selecting appropriate books.

Format: article

By Melissa Thibault.

Reading is for the boys (and girls)!

This WebQuest for teachers looks at the difficult issue of how to get — and keep — boys interested in reading. It guides you through the research, then looks at text selection and pedagogy and helps you find specific strategies for narrowing the adolescent "literacy gap."

Format: article

By Kimberly Bowen.

Resources on the web

The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students

The Holocaust Museum's outreach site provides timelines, artifacts, a glossary, photographs, and biographical information for students studying this important topic of 20th century world history. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provides primary sources and other resources for learning about the Holocaust, a tragic period in world history. This site provides a Holocaust encyclopedia, personal histories of survivors of the Holocaust, animated maps, special online exhibits, online teacher... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Holocaust Survivors

Through photographs, written and audio first-hand accounts, and other primary source materials students can learn about the tragedy of the Holocaust. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Jewish Community Center, New Orleans, LA

Holocaust and resistance

Students reflect on the Holocaust from the point of view of those who actively resisted Nazi persecution. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance

A comprehensive collection of artifacts, testimonials, photographs, and information regarding the Holocaust, including films and videotaped testimonies of survivors. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Yad Vashem