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TEACHER Allan Robinson
YEAR
10 |
LEVEL
5 |
DURATION
5-6 Weeks |
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Strand Achievement Objectives to be Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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Social Organisation 5.2
How and why people seek to gain and maintain human rights.
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Students will:
- Explain why Jews had to fight for social justice and human rights in
Nazi Germany and occupied Europe.
- Describe how Jews fought for human rights in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe.
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Processes
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Learning Outcomes
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Social Decision Making
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Students will:
- Plan some form of responsible action in regard to
the human rights abuse they have examined.
- Explain their reasons for choosing a particular course of action.
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Values Exploration
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- Explain why people in Germany held differing values positions about the
rights of Jews.
- Describe the consequences of people holding differing values positions
about the rights of Jews in Nazi Germany.
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Requirements
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| Settings: | Europe |
| Perspectives: | Current Issues; the Future |
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Assessment
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Design your own assessment using the template provided.
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TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your
students, and to fit the time available:
- Starter: Human Rights
Students read the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and Hang Five.
- Starter: Classroom Simulation of Prejudice
Make up a class set of masks. Use either paper plates or a mask template found
on programs such as Corel Print House 2000 to make the masks. About a third
of them should be a different colour (blue or green) or style. These are randomly
issued to the students as they arrive each period. The minority group are
treated differently each period. eg,
- have to sit with members of their group only
- issued more homework than the majority group
- can use chairs but not desks for the period
- reward the majority group with certificates, sweets, etc.
- the students will dream up inequalities for the next day.
After running the simulation for 4 periods discuss the issues raised by
it and relate to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and possibly
your schools anti-harrassment policy. It is crucial that a debriefing
take place so that the simulation is not continued outside the class room
in an inappropriate manner.
- The Holocaust: Death to Human Rights
The Holocaust (with a capital "H") in Nazi occupied Europe during the thirties
and forties resulted in the deaths of millions of people. Many of those who
avoided death still suffered hugely as their basic rights as human beings
were destroyed.
In order to survive, people deemed by the Nazis to be "anti-social" had
to struggle to retain even the most basic of human rights.
- Movie Response
View a movie based on the Holocaust.
Movie Review Sheet
- Holocaust Impressions
Place pictures of Holocaust Era on an overhead projector. Ask students to
analyse the pictures using Two Ps and a WC.
See
A Gallery of Holocaust Images or download Teaching
about the Holocaust in PDF format (you can also order this by post:
it will take 6-8 weeks to arrive).
- Define Holocaust
Have students give their definition. Write these on the board. Students look
up an online dictionary, eg. One Look.
- Who was affected by the Holocaust?
Jews, physically and mentally disabled, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses,
Catholics, Poles, Soviet POW's, political dissidents, anyone else deemed "anti-social".
Students can research victims of the holocaust to find specific numbers
- see A
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - Victims or United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
These figures are graphed using an appropriate graphing technique.
See:
- Holocaust Background
Students complete the traffic light by searching
The
holocaust: a learning site for students.
- Could It Happen in New Zealand?
NB. Tell them that New Zealand suspended some Civil liberties (by imposing
censorship and interning nationals of unfriendly foreign powers) during WW1
and WW2.
- 'Teacher in Court'
Discuss with the class the Holocaust Revisionist and Holocaust Denial issues.
- Little Polish Boy
The photo and poem
are available on the Web.
- Resistance During the Holocaust
See A
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - Resisters
Students write a news
report for a global magazine such as Life or Time explaining
how groups and individuals opposed the Holocaust and fought for social justice
and human rights.
Students gather information using a Retrieval
Chart.
- Triggers
A fun wrap up activity.
- Follow Up: Optional Extension Activity
History Never Repeats Itself?
Students investigate ethnic cleansing (genocide) in the 1990's - Bosnia, Rwanda,
Kosovo, East Timor and report orally to the class.
RESOURCES
Print
- Holocaust Teachers Packet see the
United States
Holocaust Museum site for details of how to order. Copies are free to schools.
This takes several weeks to arrive. (These resources can also be downloaded as
PDF files)
- Cubitt S., Irvine R., and Dow A. (1999) Top Tools for Social Science
Teachers Auckland Longman.
Electronic
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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