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Preparation:
Using the two lists below create a set of Clue Cards. Each card has a Trigger Term on one side and the definition or clue on the other side. Either print out copies of the Trigger Terms or write them on an OHT.

In class:

  1. Students rule up Trigger Cards - a six (for short games), nine or twelve (for longer games) square grid. The number of grids they draw will depend how many rounds you want to play!

  2. In each square of their Trigger Cards they write one of the Trigger Terms. The list of Trigger Terms can be on the board or an OHT for thea students to copy from.

  3. Shuffle the Clue Cards and place the cards in a pile, clue side up.

  4. Take each card in turn and read out the clue. Keep the used cards in a pile so you can check, if any disputes about cards being completed or not, arise.

  5. If students have the answer to the clue on their Trigger Card they cross it out. The first student to cross out all their clues is the winner. (You can also have first to complete a line, or a row, or a diagonal)

  6. Provide a (healthy) reward and play another round.

  7. Get students to design more Clue Cards and add them to the pile.

Trigger terms

  1. Himmler
  2. Sonderkommando
  3. Sobibor
  4. Kristallnacht
  5. Synagogue
  6. Euthanasia
  7. Bergen-Belsen
  8. Poland
  9. Star of David
  10. Auschwitz
  11. Eisengruppen
  12. Anti-Semitism
  13. Dacau
  14. Gentile
  15. Buchenwald
  16. Hitler
  17. Final Solution
  18. Refugee
  19. Anne Frank
  20. Holocaust

Clue Cards

  1. Leader of the SS.
  2. Concentration camp inmate in charge of a work party.
  3. Camp where there was a mass escape by inmates.
  4. German for 'Night of Broken Glass'.
  5. Jewish place of worship.
  6. Deliberate killing of disabled people by the Nazis.
  7. Concentration camp in NW Germany.
  8. Most death camps were in this country.
  9. Symbol of Judaism.
  10. Concentration camp in Poland.
  11. Mobile killing squads.
  12. Discrimination against the Jews.
  13. First Nazi Concentration Camp.
  14. Jewish name for a Non Jewish person.
  15. Concentration camp in North Central Germany.
  16. Nazi leader.
  17. Nazi term for the extermination of all Jews in Europe.
  18. Displaced person.
  19. Jewish girl in hiding in Holland.
  20. Mass murder of six million people.

Trigger Card example

   
   
   

From: Cubitt, S., Irvine, R., Dow, A. (1999) Top Tools for Social Sciences Teachers. Auckland; Longman





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