An interdisciplinary unit for middle school. A set of maps for use with the map unit above. Mapping Survivor Stories. Students create news headlines of the Holocaust. Students track prejudice and human rights issues in current newspapers or on the Web.
Students interview members of an older generation and present their findings.
Activity includes questions that would be appropriate to use with a Holocaust survivor. People are People. Students compare groups that have been treated with prejudice. Population Density in the Ghettos. Students make calculations of population density and recognize the stressful conditions experienced by European ghetto dwellers due to high population density and scarcity of resources.