Virtual: “(Un)Equal Treatment before the Law: Middle Grade Holocaust Education through the Lens of Civics”

For Educators in Grades 5-6 

 Guiding 5^th and 6^th grade students through an age-appropriate exploration of the Holocaust can be challenging: How to help them understand the enormity of history they don’t yet have the academic or social-emotional framing to undertake? The pre-war period of Nazi Germany, from 1933-1939, provides rich opportunities to teach about stereotyping, discrimination, and the potential consequences when individuals and groups are not equal in the eyes of the law, all of which are foundational concepts for understanding the historical atrocities that will be studied in later grades. This session, incorporating survivor testimony and other primary sources, will introduce middle grade educators to age-appropriate resources and pedagogical strategies with which to address the Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Education Mandate and the Middle Grade Civics Mandate.  

Workshop includes:

• Classroom Resources
• 1.5 Clock Hours