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Onsite Learning: A special approach to Generation Z

History, other projects

This PowerPoint offers an overview of how to create an onsite learning experience for students, what to consider as you plan, and some of the challenges you may face.

10, 11, 12, 9

Return to Rivne: Stations Lesson

Using Return to Rivne as the centerpiece, this lesson uses stations for students to explore the geography, pre-war life, Roma people, the family that hid Shelly and Raya, the toys...

6, 7, 8

Jewish Life in Germany: the Erna Goldmann Story

History
Jewish life was part of Germany and German culture in the 19th and beginning 20th century, but disappeared with the Nazi-Regime in 1933. Using the Erna Goldmann film, From Frankfurt...
10, 11, 9

Getting to know and “adopting” my neighborhood

Religion / Ethics, History
A year-long project that includes several parts—making videos and a photograph tour of the local Jewish history in Thessaloniki, creating a Holocaust library for the school, creating an exhibition for...
10, 11, 12, 9

Reading images - European Jewish Life from 1900 - 1945

This lesson „Reading Images“ describes how students can use the Centropa photo archive , and enables students to analyze primary historical sources. It also illustrates how Jewish history can be...

Three Promises: Personal Stories as Historical Material

History

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...

11

Sarajevo Project for Jewish Day School Communities

History

The Bosnian-Serb siege of Sarajevo, from spring 1993 until winter 1996, was the longest in modern history. With electricity, water and food supplies cut off and only sporadically supplied, with...

9

Then and Now

other projects

Students bring in a family photograph they like. This can be from a vacation, a holiday celebration, a family life cycle event, any photograph that includes the student. In class...

10

Telling Jewish Stories using Wordle

History

Students are each given a short, multimedia film from Centropa to watch. As they watch – they may need to watch it more than once – they are to write...

10

The Years Make Their Own: Teaching ESL/History

History
8

Jewish Surnames

other projects

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...

The History of the Bulgarian Jewry - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

World History Class Centropa Exam

other projects

This is a Centropa final exam for  10th grade students. The students will use interviews and albums. There have already been several steps along the path--this is the destination.

This...

10

Teofila Silberring and Janusz Korczak. Living in the Cracow and Warsaw Ghetto.

History

In this lesson written and tested by Anna Janina Kloza from Bialystok, the class participants learn about the situation of people in the Warsaw and Cracow Ghetto with a particular...

11

European Jewry and the Holocaust

History
In this honors class, students play a major role in teaching their peers about the Holocaust. After the teacher covers the period from the rise of modern anti-Semitism to the...
11

Understanding European Jewish life beyond the periods of catastrophe

History

This lesson assists students in appreciating the contours of modern Jewish history.  Using a Centropa film, students synthesize their learning from film, oral history interview, and standard history textbooks.

Here...

9

A place to call home

History

Using nine Centropa films and one feature length documentary about the Jewish sports club of Vienna, as well as conducting personal interviews, students will examine factors affecting immigration in their...

10