Holocaust Education in Nevada

Following participation in a Holocaust teacher training, you are asked to share a lesson plan developed based on what you learned at the training. Lesson plans will be posted on this page and available to teachers in Nevada.

Following participation in a Holocaust Teacher Training, please complete a lesson plan using the Lesson Plan Template. The content of the lesson should reflect what you learned during the teacher training.  Lessons for the October 2010 workshops must be submitted no later than November 12, 2010, in order to receive the in-service credit. 

To complete a lesson using the template, click on the link above, save the file to your computer, then email the completed lesson plan to:

Northern Nevada Teachers send to:  Stephanie Hartman

Southern Nevada Teachers send to: Brian Boothe

Each lesson plan had to meet the following criteria:

1.  All components of the lesson plan template were complete.

2.  All handouts, resources, and internet links used in the lesson were provided.

3.  Instructional strategies used were interactive and engaging.

4.  Lesson plan used a variety of primary and secondary sources.

5.  The lesson plan included content from the workshop attended.

Lesson plans have been posted as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.  To download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here. 

October 2010 Lesson Plans: Thank you to all the teachers who submitted lesson plans from the October workshops. After careful review, the following eight exemplary lesson plans were chosen:

• Christman, Sandra: Why was Hitler Able to Indoctrinate Germany?

• Finley, Josie: Children of the Holocaust

• Gardner, Launie & O'Brien, Kathleen: Preserving Community Vales and Preventing Intolerance

• Hilke, Donald: Child Soldiers

• Jensen, Capra: Propaganda

• Moriarty, Colleen: Literature and the Holocaust

• Spradley, Tashia: Taking Action

• Thomsen, Jamie: The Power of Propaganda

October 2009 Lesson Plans:  Thank you to all the teachers who submitted lesson plans from the October workshops.  After careful review, the following ten exemplary lesson plans were chosen:

• Bagley, Kathleen:Understanding Genocide's Impact on Human Rights
• Buchbaum, Jeff:  Holocaust and Contemporary Genocide
• Bush, Thawn:  Teaching Compassion and Tolerance Through the Holocaust
• Gerardin-Frey, Micaela: Introduction to the Holocaust: A Photo Study
• Gillespie, Melissa:  The Holocaust:  Taking a Peek at History and Remembering
• Markind, Ruth:  What We All Share
• Spradley, Tashia: Creating Empathy (A lesson for elementary students) 
• Vaughn, Farrell: The Comparative Genocide Project 
• Vaughn, Jamie: A Conversation with Victims of the Holocaust
• Westbrook, Suzy:  The German Holocaust of World War II and Contemporary Genocide

October 2008 Lesson Plans:  Thank you to all the teachers who submitted lesson plans from the October workshops.  After careful review, the following eight exemplary lesson plans were chosen. 

• Atwell, Luke:  The Holocaust from the Point of View of the Survivor:  Primary and Secondary Source Analysis
• Creer, Chimane:  The Ghettos and Camps of the Holocaust
• Fritz, Judy:  Exploring History through Literature
• Miller, Todd: Holocaust: The Warsaw Uprising
• Motter, Marcia: The Discrimination and Segregation of Jews in Europe
• Oxborrow, Ruth: Ghettos During World War II
• Webb, Loren: Holocaust
• Willson, Tracey: Understanding Kristallnacht

Featured Unit Plan:  The Forgotten Genocide - The Armenian Genocide by Elyse Anderson Bozsik, UNR Masters Degree Candidate.