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Navigating Critical Conversations & Fostering Civil Discourse
A Facing History approach involves engaging students in difficult, relevant conversations about identity, community, current events, history, and literature. This lesson first explores questions
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-12
Painted Words: Teaching the Holocaust Through the Art of Sam Bak, Child Survivor
In this lesson, students explore the Holocaust through the life and artwork of Samuel Bak, a child survivor from Vilna, Lithuania. By analyzing visual
60-120 Minutes
Grades 9-12. Can be adapted for 7-8
Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photography of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman
This lesson engages students in a digital, inquiry-based exploration of the life of Faye Schulman through a Virtual Museum Exhibit featuring primary sources, including
30-60 Minutes
50 minutes
Grades 9-12.
Power of Testimony: Teacher Guide
This lesson explores the role of personal testimony in preserving historical truth and shaping collective memory. Through survivor accounts from the Holocaust and the
90-120 Minutes
Grades 9-12
Reading Place as History: Uncovering Shadowed Lands and Collective Memory
Students explore how places hold layered histories, memories, and meanings through journaling, dialogue, and primary-source image analysis focused on the incarceration of Japanese Americans
90-120 Minutes
2 - 3 class periods (2 hours)
Grades 9-12. Adaptable for 8th grade.
Rescue & Resistance: Hidden Children in the Holocaust
In this lesson, students examine the Holocaust through the experiences and perspectives of Hidden Children, an especially vulnerable population during World War II. Students
90-120 Minutes
Grades 6-12
Resisting Injustices Through the Power of Writing
This lesson examines the Holocaust through the lens of children’s experiences, focusing on primary source documents that involve writing. Through reading the Bella Blitz
60-120 Minutes
Grades 6-12
Rohingya Genocide: Heeding the Warning Signs
Using survivor testimony from Wai Wai Nu and a historical timeline, students examine how discrimination, exclusion, dehumanization, militarization, and movement restrictions developed over time
30-60 Minutes
Grades 9-12.
Roots of Hate: Teacher Guide
This is a 2-hour lesson that explores how fear and anxiety can be manipulated to fuel hate, dehumanization, and exclusion. Using case studies from
60-120 Minutes
Grades 9-12. Can be adapted for 8
Shoah Stories: Gallery Walk Activity
In this interactive lesson, middle school students engage with Holocaust survivor testimonies and artifacts through a gallery walk format using TikTok videos. Students analyze
60-120 Minutes
Grades 6-8
Still Waiting: The Ongoing Uyghur Genocide (Video)
Still Waiting: The Ongoing Uyghur Genocide is an animated short documentary about Uyghur family separation, human rights, cultural survival, and hope. Created for K-12
Teaching About Genocide
After defining the term genocide, this lesson provides four examples for comparative analysis: the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, and the Rwandan
180-240 Minutes
Grades 9-12
Teaching About Resistance During the Holocaust with Primary Sources
Drawing from the archives of the Warsaw Ghetto, this lesson helps students grapple with the question of how we form a factual knowledge of
120-180 Minutes
Grades 8-12
Teaching Holocaust Literature: A Guide for Meaningful Engagement
This six-lesson introductory sequence prepares students to engage thoughtfully with Holocaust literature by building background knowledge about the Holocaust, antisemitism, genocide, identity, Jewish life,
180-240 Minutes
Six 50 minute lessons
Grades 6-12.
Teaching the Armenian Genocide through Artifacts, Literature, and History
Each of these 7 lessons invite students to humanize the history of the Armenian Genocide by analyzing artifacts and reading memoirs and historical documents
30-60 Minutes
7 lessons 30-60 minutes each
Grades 6-12
Teaching the Holocaust with the Virtual Sobibor Camp Model
This unit introduces students to the history and legacy of the Holocaust through Holocaust Museum LA’s resources, survivor testimony, and artifact-based learning. Students explore
60-120 Minutes
Multiple Lessons
Grades 6 - 12
Teaching the Human Story of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi (1 Unit, 11 Lessons)
This is a twelve-lesson unit that starts with a pre-lesson Primer which defines and deepens the reader’s understanding of genocide, providing a basis for
180-240 Minutes
(Each lesson is 60 minutes)
Grades 9-12
Teaching the Human Story of the Guatemalan Genocide
This seven-lesson sequence examines the Guatemalan Genocide and civil war through an integrated study of historical context, structural inequality, lived experience, and post-conflict justice.
30-60 Minutes
7 lessons 30-60 minutes each