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Cultural Identity: Art Expressions

This unit includes two stand-alone lessons, Cultural Identity-Art Expressions and Cultural Identity-Understanding your Roots. The first lesson explores the role art plays in shaping
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-8

Cultural Identity: Understanding Your Roots

This unit includes two stand-alone lessons, Cultural Identity-Art Expressions and Cultural Identity-Understanding your Roots. The first lesson explores the role art plays in shaping
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-8

Darfur Genocide: The Promise to Prevent and Punish

Students examine the UN Genocide Convention through a case study of the Darfur Genocide. They analyze Articles I and II of the Convention, evaluate
30-60 Minutes
60 minutes, optional extension activities can expand lesson to 90 minutes
Grades 9-12. Adaptable for 8th grade.

Encountering and Combating Antisemitism

Students learn about the history of antisemitism, and contemporary antisemitic tropes, that encourages empathy and critical thinking in the wake of the October 7th
180-240 Minutes
Grades 6-12

Genocide Prediction: How Do We Predict Genocide?

Students learn how researchers and policymakers assess the risk of genocide using the PREVENT Model, a framework that identifies seven categories of risk factors
30-60 Minutes
45 - 60 minute lesson
Grades 9-12.

Goodbye, Antoura: An Armenian Survivor’s Journey

This inquiry-based Virtual IWalk uses survivor testimony, memoir excerpts, photographs, and interactive mapping to explore the experiences of Karnig Panian, an Armenian child who
60-120 Minutes
1 - 2 class periods (75 minutes)
Grades 9-12.

Gringlas Unit on Antisemitism After the Holocaust

The lessons in this unit increase students’ understanding of Jewish people and awareness that antisemitism did not end after the Holocaust, and provide them
180-240 Minutes
4 Lessons, 60 minute each
Grades 9-12

Introduction to Transitional Justice

This lesson introduces students to the four pillars of transitional justice—Truth, Justice, Reparations, and Prevention—and examines how societies rebuild after genocide. Using the 1994
60-120 Minutes
1 - 2 class periods (75 minutes)
Grades 9-12.

Jewish Communities in Wartime North Africa

This mini-unit explores the experiences of Jewish communities in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia before and during World War II and the Holocaust. Through
120-180 Minutes
3 lessons
Grades 9-12

Keep the Promise: Armenian Genocide Education

USC Shoah Foundation’s “Keep the Promise” lessons engage students with survivor testimony, historical sources, and cultural artifacts to deepen understanding of the Armenian Genocide.
30-60 Minutes
Series of lessons, 30 - 60 minutes each.
Grades 9-12. Can be adapted for 7-8

Laws and Decrees as Instruments of Tyranny

In this interdisciplinary lesson, students use Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny to explore how authoritarian regimes gain power and how individuals can protect democratic institutions.
120-180 Minutes
Three class periods
Grades 6-8