Web Sites
Holocaust Memorial Museum Web
http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/guidelines/
Since opening in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has welcomed more than 21.4 million visitors from all walks of life and reached millions more through a growing range of outreach programs – often conceived in response to public demand. While these statistics are impressive, another story lies in the meaningful, enduring impact that the Museum’s programs have had on the individuals who participate in them – students, teachers, law enforcement officers, students at military academies, and others.
The Museum’s mandate is not to tell you exactly how to teach this difficult history, but to support you in this difficult endeavor, providing resources and guidance as well as help in finding additional resources in your area.
Free Online Teacher Workshop
This online workshop includes video segments from a workshop presented in February 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland. The guidelines and methodological suggestions in these video segments are at the core of every teacher workshop and conference presented by the Museum. They are offered here for teachers who are unable to attend a professional development program presented by the Museum. In addition to video of the actual workshop session, segments include historical and artifact photographs, text, and links to related sites within the Museum’s Web siteExemplary Lessons
Initiative You can download free detailed lessons made available to use in classrooms. Middle and high school educators submitted lessons to illustrate or add to student understanding of individual responsibility during the Holocaust as reflected in one or more of the Tenth Anniversary themes: RESISTANCE, RESPONSE, RESCUE, and RENEWAL.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com/
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. The Center confronts important contemporary issues including racism, antisemitism, terrorism and genocide and is accredited as an NGO both at the United Nations and UNESCO. With a membership of over 400,000 families, the Center is headquartered in Los Angeles and maintains offices in New York, Toronto, Miami, Jerusalem, Paris and Buenos Aires
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
www.vhf.org
There are teacher lessons and streaming video. This site also has testimonies of survivors.
Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh
www.holocaustcenterpgh.net
This site is point and click for questions to answers about the Holocaust. This local resource is very informative and willing to help with ideas and services.
Remember
www.remember.org
This site shares art, discussion, photos, poems, and facts to preserve powerful memories, like A Survivor's Prayer to 4 million visitors last year.
This Holocaust Teacher Resource Center (TRC)
http://www.holocaust-trc.org
This web site, is dedicated to the memory of the six million Jewish people slaughtered during the Holocaust and the millions other people slaughtered during the Nazi era. It strives to combat prejudice and bigotry by transforming the horrors of the Holocaust into positive lessons to help make this a better and safer world for everybody. This site is sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation, Inc. Educators, (kindergarten through college) will find at this site materials which can be brought into the classroom and studied. Whenever possible entire documents are included and may be downloaded for direct use in the classroom.
Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/tguide.htm
Teacher guide and class lessons for Anne Frank. Can also locate other books that deal with the Holocaust. Web Holocaust Lesson Plans Grades 8-12 http://christym7.tripod.com/lessonplans.htm This web-based activity is in the structure of a Web Quest. (The following description has been taken from the Web Quest page). A Web Quest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. Web Quests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge and Tom March, and was outlined then in
Some Thoughts About Web Quests…
The structure of the web quest fits well with the subject of the Holocaust.
The web sources that may be included here can lead students to information they
would not gain from simply reading a text. The web provides a medium for students
to listen to survivors’ testimonies, see pictures from concentration camps,
and gain information from the source. As in the Web Quest definition, it allows
students to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information at a higher level.
This activity is ideal for cooperative learning groups in the classroom, in
a classroom where the groups would have access to several computers connected
to the Internet.
Tolerance: a web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/index.jsp
Tolerance.org is a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, in hate's stead, communities that value diversity. If you want to know how to transform yourself, your home, your school, your workplace or your community, Tolerance.org is a place to start — and continue — the journey. Through its online well of resources and ideas, its expanding collection of print materials, its burgeoning outreach efforts, and its downloadable public service announcements, Tolerance.org promotes and supports anti-bias activism.
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