Lesson Plans on the topic of the Holocaust for 2nd and 11th grade

Lesson Plans on the topic of the Holocaust for 2nd and 11th grade
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Lesson Plan for Grade 2 Students
The Twentieth Century Holocaust
In this social studies class, students will show the knowledge of holocaust and examples of holocausts that have taken place in history. They will also be able to know the outcomes of holocaust. Students will be able to know the political leaders that contributed to the historical holocaust and memorize their names. Students will understand that twentieth century holocaust was not fair to human by knowing the effects of the holocaust. This lesson includes hand on learning as well as music that can be used as a follow up.
Grade Level: 1-2
Concept to be taught: Twentieth Century Holocaust
Instructional Objectives;
-Students will be able to define holocaust
- Students will be able to translate the meaning of holocaust to the twentieth century holocaust
-Students will be able to separate between the biblical holocaust and the twentieth century holocaust
-Students will be able to know the periods when twentieth century holocaust took place
-Students will be able to understand that the twentieth century holocaust victims did not commit crimes
- Students will be bale to understand that twentieth century holocaust contributed to death of people
3. Materials
-3 waste baskets, labeled ‘Nazi’, ‘Russia’ and ‘Biblical’
-song “The twentieth Century Holocaust”
- Pictures of people shooting at each other, murdered people and commander
4. Procedures
INTRODUCTION
Show the students the examples of holocaust such as images of people in the bible offering sacrifice, pictures of people being shot at directly with rifles and the pictures of people already killed. However, do not tell them what they are.
Ask the students if they can identify what they are seeing. If they are not able to tell what they are seeing, assist them by telling them that the pictures show people being killed with a rifles and also people offering sacrifices to the God.
Once the students have guessed what the pictures are showing, proceed to tell them that today we are going to learn about holocaust. And also that holocaust results into a large number of people being killed
Explain to the children that we can commit holocaust by killing a large number of people. After this show to the children the picture of people who were responsible for holocaust in twentieth century. Tell them the names of those people and ask them to memorize.
Sing the first verse of the song ‘Russia and Nazi Holocausts’. (The song should be introduced and the first verse sung at the end of the lesson so students can know what the song is)
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Show students pictures of people being shot at as well as pictures of pieces of meat being burned. Show them that those people are going to die if they are shot at.
Ask a student to take the picture containing the gun and ask him to point it at his fellow student. The two students should stand next to the basket labeled ‘Russia’. Ask the student to whom the photo of a gun has been pointed to lie down. Repeat the process until ten students lie down.
Sing the second verse of the song ‘Russia and Nazi Holocausts’
Show the students the pictures of standing people and tell them that they will all die if they are shot at with a gun.
Show the students the pictures of meat and ask another student to place it on the picture of fire. The two students should stand next to the basket labeled ‘Biblical’.
Sing the third verse of the song ‘Russia and Nazi Holocausts’.
Show the students the picture of burnt meat and explain to them that the meat turns the way they look if they are burnt.
Ask one student to hit another student with his hand. Let the other student pretend that he is dead by lying down. Ask another student to point the picture of a gun to the fighting student.
Sing the fourth verse of the song ‘Russia and Nazi Holocausts’.
Ask the above students do their actions next to the basket labeled ‘Nazi’. Let them repeat the procedure above until ten students lie down.
Ask the remaining students to explain what they can see. If they are not able to explain, do it to them.
Sing the fifth, sixth verse of the song ‘Russia and Nazi Holocausts’.
Sing all the verses of the song ‘Russia and Nazi Holocausts’
Each student should be able to get at least one of each of the materials they have learnt about.
Have the students who took part in the activities to stand next to their respective bins and explain to the rest of the students what they did. After explaining to the students, ask them to go back to their seats.
5. Conclusion
Have students get into small groups. This may include dividing the students into groups labeled ‘Russia’, ‘Nazi’ and ‘Biblical’. Ask each of these groups of students to go into different classrooms in the same school and tell the students of that class about holocaust. This involves doing the activities performed by the students in the previous class and presenting them to the new class. By presenting various types of holocaust to three different classes, more students are able to learn about holocaust.
Tell the students the class is going to keep the baskets in the classroom and that they will be repeating the activity on daily basis to know better about holocaust. Let the students decide other best place to repeat the activity on daily basis.
6. Extension
1. Students are asked to divide themselves into three groups and create posters of fire, gun, meat and people. Every day, ask the students in each group to bring two or more articles and photos they think are important for learning about holocaust. These photos should then be arranged on the bulletin board.
2. Students are then asked what they know about the poster they have made. At the end of every week, students will be asked to tell the class if they have witnessed any of the events displayed on the board in real life or on television. The oral reports should include the following questions. Who did they see? What did they see? When did they see it? Why did they see it? It should also involve the determination of how they saw it? The group should also be asked to explain why they think the event was important.
7. Follow up
When a major event in current time takes place locally, nationally or internationally, inform the class about it. Explain the details of the vent to the students and ask them to find other related information and bring them to class. Assign them to make a summary of these events as they have occurred. Story examples may include the killing of people in a village by cattle rustlers, political violence, and protests against the legislative decisions of the government, investigations into the major crime issues, outbreaks of diseases and political crises.
Evaluation
After the lesson is complete, before the students commence on extension activity, they will be assigned to say verbally the ways in which holocaust was done in 20th century and the effects of holocaust. They are also asked to write them down. These are checked and evaluated by the teacher.
The Song: ‘Russia and Nazi Holocausts’
1. Holocaust is killing many people
These people do not want to die
The authority kills people do to their fight for freedom
Holocaust is done by tyrannical leaders.
Some leaders like Adolph Hitler committed holocaust
2. The unfair holocaust is that of ‘Russia’
The Russians were not with any blame
They fought for freedom from oppression
The authority killed those who participated in protests
They were malnourished, shot and forced to work for long hours
3. The offering of meat offering is ‘Biblical’ holocaust
The Jews loved their God
Moses offered burnt offering to God
They killed animals and burnt its body
The God accepted their prayers in return
4. The ‘Nazi’ holocaust was fair
Many people were killed
The leader did not tolerate bad people like murderers
Those who were killed also included gypsies and homosexuals
They were people who did not have the ideals of the society
5. Holocaust results in many evils
Sometimes unfair holocaust makes innocent people to die
Sometimes holocaust results in death of people
Who would contribute to economic advancement of the society?
Holocaust results in many children losing their parents
6. Holocaust is inhumane
We should not accept holocaust
We should fight for our freedom
People who practice holocaust should be overthrown
We should encourage democracy
Lesson plan for 11th grade student
Introduction
The 20th century holocaust is the murder of people in the Soviet between 1917 and 1953. It is a mass murder that has never been witnessed in the history of human existence. It was the world’s first holocaust in modern times. Here, there was a systematic killing of a large number of people by the government. This holocaust occurred sometime before the Nazis committed their holocaust. In this lesson, students are going to learn about the causes of the mu...