Teaching Tolerance to Our Students

I first heard about The Southern Poverty Law Center from my aunt. She told me all the things they were doing to rid the world of hate and injustice. Civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. founded SPLC in 1971 and the organization is known globally for "tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups."  SPLC's project, Teaching Tolerance, offers free magazine subscriptions to teachers, as well as free film kits, which include DVDs (and accompanying teacher's guide) about bullying, the Holocaust, the March in Birmingham and Cesar Chavez. Under their section on classroom resources, Teaching Tolerance has a nice listing of lesson plans for all ages.With free publications to download, Teaching Tolerance is a website that is a wonderful resource for the classroom.

47 Sites For Teaching About the Holocaust

Adolph Hitler Speech:



The Anne Frank Museum

Art Spiegelman's MAUS: A Different Type of Holocaust Literature

Auschwitz After 65 Years- photos from Time magazine

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

The Biography of Adolph Hitler

Biography of Miep Gies

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Resource Links

Classroom Holocaust Museum- set up a classroom as a Holocaust museum

History Channel- about Adolph Hitler

The History Channel - article about the Holocaust

The History Place: Hitler Youth

Hitler and the Nazis- from Glencoe; interactive with videos and photos

Holocaust Evidence- from Awesome Stories

The Holocaust Memorial Center- located in Farmington Hills, MI

Holocaust Resources- teaching resources from the NY Times Learning Network

Holocaust Remembrance Day 

Holocaust Survivor Stories-"Read the stories of the survivors. Hear them speak. Look at their family photographs. Consult our encyclopedia. Read a historical introduction to the Holocaust. Leave your thoughts or ask your questions on our discussion page."

Holocaust: The Untold Story- from Newseum

How Stuff Works- videos about the Holocaust

Interactive Map of Auschwitz - from the BBC

Kristallnacht in Words and Photographs- from Time Magazine; "Seventy years later, survivors share their recollections of the day the Holocaust began, in material drawn from Centropa.org, a website devoted to preserving the memory of Jewish life in Central Europe before the rise of the Nazis."

Lessons of Auschwitz Interactive Feature- from CBS News

Literature Related to the Holocaust - includes the Diary of Anne Frank, The Book Thief and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

Maus- this is comic book version of the Holocaust; read an excerpt here at Amazon; not well received by the Jewish people

Memory of the Camps- Frontline presentation

Life After the Holocaust-production from the National Holocaust Museum

Life in the Shadows- production from the National Holocaust Museum

Museum of History and Holocaust Education- housed at the KSU Center on Kennesaw State University's extended campus

The Museum of Tolerance 

Night Study Guide- book written by Elie Weisel

The Nizkor Project- Camp Belzec

The Nizkor Project- gas chambers

The Nizkor Project- medical experimentation

Remember.org- a cybrary of the Holocaust

Remembering Catastrophe: The Nazi Camps Today 

The Rise of Adolph Hitler

The Secret Annex Online- take an interactive tour of the place where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis

Simon Weisenthal Center 

The Story of Miep Gies- biography of the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis; Scholastic

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust- site includes photos, maps, videos, quizzes, music, museums and much more.

Telling Their Stories- oral histories of the Holocaust

US Holocaust Museum Educators' Toolbox- maintained by Cynthia Peterman

United States Holocaust Museum Propaganda Artifact Gallery- huge collection of photos and movies
 

Videos on the Holocaust- from How Stuff Works

We Remember Anne Frank- from Scholastic

WWII Concentration Camps- interactive maps and photos

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38 Sites for High School Lesson Plans

Hopefully these web sites offer every high school teacher some great lesson plans for their subject area. The links should bring you directly to the "high school"  section. I tried to label those sites which did not offer browsing by grade level.  Even though it's not even August yet, it's never too early to start gathering some  great ideas. You will also notice that I just added the "high school" tab at the top of the blog. A to Z Teacher Stuff Awesome Library Cybersmart! Student Curriculum- covers cyberbullying, Internet safety, digital citizenship Discovery Education Free ESL Lessons to Download- nice listing includes Word documents, PDFs, MP3 files Grade 9 to Grade 12 Science Lesson Plans High School Level English Language Arts Lesson Plans High School Social Studies Lesson Plans Holocaust Activities HotChalk Lesson Plans Page ITVS PBS Lesson Plans Lesson Planet- over 200,000 reviewed; can't browse by grade

Lesson Plan Central- can't browse by grade

Lesson Plan Megasearch- search (3) directories. including TeAchnology, LessonPlanz and Virginia's site for educators Lesson Plan Search-can't browse by grade level Lesson Plan Templates Lesson Plans for P.E. Lesson Plans by Veteran Teachers- browse by subject only Lesson Tutor Lesson Planz.com McRel Lesson Plans- can't browse by grade level Microsoft Education Lesson Plans Modern World History Lesson Plans NY Times Daily Lesson Plan- browse by category only Online Economics Lessons Smithsonian Education Lesson Plans Spanish Lesson Plans- from TeAchnology Teaching Economics As If People Mattered TeachNet TeacherPlanet- short list Teachers.net Lesson Plans- long list of all high school lesson plans Teachers Network- high school ESL lessons Teachervision Tech Lesson Plans Technology and Engineering Education Association of Pennsylvania- grades 10-12 lesson plans Technology Education Handouts- 28 to download These Kids Mean Busine$$- for business teachers Thirteen Ed Online Lesson Plans