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Centropa Biography Film/Stolpersteine Assignment

History, other projects
In this project, students work in pairs to read Centropa biographies, create a 5 minute video about the interviewee, and design a Stolpersteine (commemorative stone) for them.
6, 7, 8, 9

Video Competition 3rd prize | The history of Jewish people in Kamenka-Dneprovskaya

History

Watch here this year's 3rd Prize winner at the Centropa's Video Competition.

6

Video Competition 2nd prize | Civil society through the eyes of children

Sociology

Watch here this year's 2nd Prize winner at the Centropa's Video Competition.

6

Video Competition 1st prize | Soul Revolution

other projects

watch here 2016's 1st prize winner of the Centropa Video Competition 

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Video Competition 2nd prize | Mezuza

Religion / Ethics

Watch here this year's 2nd Prize winner at the Centropa's Video Competition.

7

Video Competition 2nd prize | Jewish History of Kremenets

Religion / Ethics

Watch here this year's 2nd Prize winner at the Centropa's Video Competition.

7

Video Competition 1st prize | The Jewish history of Vinnytsya

History

watch here 2016's 1st prize winner of the Centropa Video Competition 

7

History of Holocaust Final Exam Project

History

This final exam project culminates a semester of study and storytelling about Jewish life in Central Europe and the Holocaust that started with students presenting their own stories in picture...

10

Life During World War II

History

This is a history project but because we want our students ultimately to teach each other, we started with an introductory video conference during which students asked each other questions...

11

A Meeting of Minds, Culture, and Penfriends!

other projects

In this cross-cultural project with students in North Carolina and Slovakia, our students are paired with a penfriend based on shared interests. The NC students wrote letters, but penfriends will...

8

Centropa exchange: Kielce and Greensboro

other projects

This project was carried out in two schools: VI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Juliusza Słowackiego in Kielce  (Poland) and Southeast Guilford High School (USA). In the beginning, students made intro videos...

12

My Family and My Roots: A Film Project

other projects

In the framework of the Roots project, students choose a family member or a Jewish person, and use modern technologies to create a film presenting the story of that person...

11

The NEMESIS Cookbook Project

other projects

Students of EC №141 "ORT" participate in CJN Cookbook project. They do their own research and try to make the dish.

You can watch ther video by clicking here 

10

We Remember

History

Students make a 3-5 minute film that tells the story of a family member.  We start the project by showing Centropa films as models for short films that tell a...

8

Storytelling and Filmmaking to Remember Holocaust Survivors

History

In this project Jewish middle/high school students explore Jewish life in Europe, the Holocaust, and post-war immigrant life in America through the experiences of local Holocaust survivors from Central or...

8

History and the Power of Personal Stories

History

In this family history project, students conduct oral histories with family members with the objective of creating a final project about their family history and understanding how an individual's family...

10, 11, 12, 7, 8, 9

Creating a Student Museum

other projects

As of 2013, for three years students at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia have created, curated and been docents for museums they have made using Centropa...

9

Digital Story Telling

other projects

This is a project that combines a variety of skills and tools with modern technology to create films similar to those produced by Centropa.

Students produce digital stories, using narratives...

11

"Culminating project": Student films about omitted topics

History

This lesson plan outlines a project, in which students were asked to make a short Centropa-style documentary about a topic that had to be omitted from class due to time...

8

Family Film Unit

History
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Video tutorial on "How to make a movie"

other projects

Part 1: Saving images

Part 2: Creating an audio narration

Part 3: Windows Movie maker main tutorial