Resource Theme: Immigration
This interdisciplinary lesson introduces students to Armenian culture through illuminated manuscripts, letter art, and the Armenian alphabet. By exploring the relationship between language, identity, religion, and cultural preservation, students…
60-120 Minutes
Grades 6-12. Adaptable for 5th grade.
Using the story of Armenian botanist J.J. Manissadjian and the rare Tulipa sprengeri, students explore themes of resilience, remembrance, and cultural survival following the Armenian Genocide. After examining the…
60-120 Minutes
Grades 6-12. Adaptable for 4th and 5th grades.
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 survived the Armenian Genocide. As…
60-120 Minutes
Grades 9-12.
Lesson 1: Students examine photography as a form of historical witnessing and evidence by analyzing photographs from multiple historical contexts, including the Bosnian Genocide. Through discussion, written reflection, source…
30-60 Minutes
Grades 9-12. Adaptable for 8th grade.
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. Designed for secondary classrooms, the…
30-60 Minutes
Grades 9-12. Can be adapted for 7-8
Each of these 7 lessons invite students to humanize the history of the Armenian Genocide by analyzing artifacts and reading memoirs and historical documents that illuminate personal experiences of…
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-12
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 the Holocaust and the incarceration…
60-120 Minutes
Grades 9-12. Can be adapted for 8
The lessons in this unit increase students’ understanding of Jewish people and awareness that antisemitism did not end after the Holocaust, and provide them with opportunities to learn about…
180-240 Minutes
Grades 9-12
In this lesson, students explore how food, memory, and cultural preservation intersect in the aftermath of genocide. Using excerpts and recipes from Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love,…
60-120 Minutes
Grade 9-12, can be adapted for 8
Survivor: Aron’s Story is an award-winning hardcover illustrated graphic novel and history book based on the first hand Holocaust testimony of Aron, a young Jewish-Soviet boy from 1940s Odessa,…
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-8. Extension activities for 9 - 12
This lesson focuses on the role of eugenics in the discriminatory patterns behind immigration to the United States in the late 19th/early 20th century. Students will explore the push…
60-120 Minutes
Grades 7-12