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Overview of Human Behavior

Teaching the Holocaust and other Genocides

 

Learning Activities

This section contains two different activities that are both designed to have the students think beyond themselves and consider the “other.”

●       Activity 1 is designed for middle school students and focuses on the concept of human rights and human dignity. The activity asks students to consider what is necessary for survival and what is necessary for dignity. Activity 1 may also be used in upper grades, specifically in psychology classes when discussing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

●       Activity 2 is designed for upper grades, where students study human rights through the lens of universal obligation, the Holocaust and genocide. The activity looks at specific historical events and asks students to contemplate the role they play in their community and society-at-large.

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Banality of Evil
Terrible Things

 

 

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Additional Resources: Poetry

 

First They Came
Riddle
The Hangman

 

 

Martin Niemoller

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