Lesson Plans

Scavenger hunt

This scavenger hunt was designed for Mitzvah Day 2021 where the theme was "Gedenken", Remembrance. The students were 8th graders and had to look for information about Centropa interview information...

Me and the Society

Three Promises: Personal Stories as Historical Material

This lesson plan uses group work, creative writing, and multimedia to teach subjects including History, Literature, Civics, Social and Political Education, Philosophy, Language etc. It is also useful in discussions...

My Spanish Bosnian Life The Montiljo Family of Sarajevo

Overview information

Teachers: Pecoler Lorieta, Eskenazi Milutinovic Marsela, Isailovic Vera, Sterjova Daniela, Saric Melika, Cirino Katiusca
Type of school: Primary public schools, Public High Schools  
Subjects taught: History, Civic...

Survival in Sarajevo —— La Benevolencija

Course lesson taught in: when filling in for absent colleagues  (happening with high frequency —after all it’s Italy

This lesson plan can be adapted to nearly every context and...

Ladino, language of the Sephardic Jews

LADINO, LANGUAGE OF THE SEFARDIC JEWS

Grade of class: middle and junior high
Course lesson taught in: transversal during Spanish language and English language lessons
Category of lesson...

Lesson plan to "Teofila Silberring: So that Memory doesn't die"

Subject : “We know ourselves only to the extent we have been tested”   (W.Szymborska).

Human attitudes towards different life situations.

Lesson Plan | The Years Make Their Own

Centropa lesson

Centropa film: The Years Make Their Own

Teacher: Biljana Shotarovska

School: Blaze Koneski Primary school – Skopje, Macedonia

Overview information

Type of school...

"Three Promises" - Lesson Plan

Aims:

-       Identifying causal relations between characters and events

-       Helping the students develop critical thinking skills through the analysis of historical sources (a film)

-       Raising students’ consciousness...

Centropa Lesson Guidelines

We ask all teachers who submit their lesson to use these guidelines when writing up your lessons to submit for uploading to the website. Following these guidelines helps everyone who...

Exhibition: A century of Jewish culture or “We are all the same by the different ways”

The main theme:

(1) To bring a different culture to the students by showing them that it is not so much different.

(2) The secondary theme is an exhibition...

Why Study History?

3 lives

The project is done by a group of 6 students for Spanish elective class where the students first watched Kalef movie by Centropa then based on the movie, created their...

The family - The root gives life to a tree. The family gives life to mankind.

Grade of Class:

primary school students aged 11-12 students 13-14 and their parents Number of students in one class: 15 to 17

The familyThe root gives life to a tree...

Bulgaria in the Holocaust

In studying rescue, the students learn about individual rescuers (mainly in Eastern Europe) and the challenges they faced. They also compare rescue on a national context, contrasting the Jewish experience...

The HOLOCAUST in Serbia

This  lesson about the Shoah  is  designed  for  a  history  class.  The  topic  can  also  be  approached   multidisciplinary  (i.e.  it  can  include  subjects   such  as  Serbian/mother  language,  ...

Divided by Faith, United by War: Teaching the citizens of the future using the lessons of the past

The Bosnian War (1992-1995) as a tool in History, Civic Education & Social Studies Lessons.

How to Use Centropa resources in the English Language Classroom

This lesson plan consists of a Powerpoint presentation that you can download  below.

Using the Lewin film in ESL class

Herbert Lewin - stories of my life compared with "Address Unknown"

The story of Herbert Lewin reflects the life of a secular Jewish family with its gentile neighbors  in Vienna...

The Years Make Their Own: Teaching ESL/History

"Three promises": A project about the Kalef family

This project uses family photos from the Kalef family to trigger a discussion about memory.

Every Photo tells a Story: A Project about Franziska Smolka

When engaging students with history in general, and with the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust in particular, teachers should not limit themselves to how European Jews died during...

So that Memory Doesn't Die

In this 45 minute lesson, high school students explore two important aspects of survivors’ lives: 1) rebuilding their lives after living through horrors and losing their families, and 2) sharing...

Multimedia Yom Hashoah Presentation

In this unit, selected 8th grade students worked with three teachers to prepare a multimedia presentation for the middle school using Centropa materials in observance of Yom Hashoah. The...

Roots in Spain, Trees in Sarajevo

This lesson aims to enlighten students about Sephardic history in the Balkans, and was originally taught in the context of a Jewish day school in the United States.  The Jews...

We speak for them

6th Grade SS/LA Project 

Using Amos Oz with the Detinko film

An Introduction to Centropa’s film about Haya-Lea Detinko. This lesson uses excerpts from A Tale and Love and Darkness by the great Israeli novelist, and the film about Haya-Lea Dinko...

Jewish Surnames

The goal of these lesson plans, which should take about 16 hours of class time + home work, is for each student to produce a short biographical film on the...

Lesson plan on the Centropa film "Max Uri - Looking for Frieda"

Using the Centropa film "Max Uri -Looking for Frieda", which is a touching love story, together with Emily Dickinson's poem "I Held a Jewel", you can expose your students to...

Lesson plan on the Centropa film "Three Promises"