Innovative Teaching Strategies
The Artifacts Collection of Yad Vashem’s Museum is home to more than 27,000 items donated over the years by Holocaust survivors, their families, and various organizations. It includes a wide […]
Two Crestview teachers embark on a journey alongside a Holocaust survivor, seeking to convey firsthand lessons on the devastating consequences of hate to their students.
DAY 1: ANTISEMITISM AND THE MEDIA The purpose of defining antisemitism is to determine what opinions students already hold. It’s important they can define the term so that they can […]
In this lesson students will explore the power of images. Beginning with the hook exercise students will begin to understand the role that confirmation bias, stereotyping, and other cognitive biases […]
This lesson contains three parts, which help students to understand: the Tree of Life attack, hate crimes in a larger sense, and how they can take action to enduringly resist […]
This unit was designed to immerse students in the history of the Holocaust and national, ethnic, racial, and religious intolerance. This is to communicate the impact of personal responsibility, civic […]
Students will take the role of “preservationists” of history in order to inform and impact the present and future. As they read Refugee, by Alan Gratz, Holocaust-related memoirs, diaries, and […]