Activities To Teach Your Middle School Students About the Holocaust
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There are many ways to teach your middle school students about the Holocaust. Here are some ideas:
1. Teaching Resources About Anne Frank
When the Holocaust is being discussed, Anne Frank always comes up. That’s because Anne Frank played a monumental role in our understanding of the Holocaust. These resources include primary sources, secondary historical pieces, photographs, maps, film footage, and lesson plans.
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2. Activities To Teach The Holocaust Timeline
These lesson plans for grades 6 to 12 will help your students understand the timeline of the Holocaust and how it fits into human history. Each classic timeline activity will help your students create an interactive timeline to understand how the events of the Holocaust happened and their outcomes.
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3. Digital Collections
These digitized collections of victim names, photographs, and rescue stories serve as great primary sources to create lesson plans and discussion groups to instruct your students about racial antisemitism and individual experiences.
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4. Interactive Lesson Plans
These interactive resources, detailed lesson plans, and virtual manipulatives will help your students answer some difficult questions and learn about concentration camp prisoners, camp inmates, and the concept of racism with these videos and collection of lesson plans.
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5. The Virginia Holocaust Museum
The Virginia Holocaust Memorial Museum has a collection of educational videos and a virtual experience to help your students understand the holocaust a little better.
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