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Hi everyone, my name is Kristen.

And for the final project I decided to focus

on teaching history and specifically teaching about the holocaust.

So my rationale behind teaching about the holocaust is first,

I love teaching history because I love learning about history myself.

Um currently I teach second grade, I've been teaching second grade for five years,

but I would love to eventually maybe teach an older group of students

about the holocaust.

So why is it important that students learn about the holocaust?

Students need to learn about difficult topics such as the holocaust in order

to make sure that they grow up to be well rounded citizens.

An overview on my topic. Um racism is a major problem in our society.

It affects millions of people, including Children each day.

Individuals are treated differently based on the color of their skin,

their religion, their economic status, and more.

Our world really needs to change.

And as a teacher,

I feel strongly that it's our responsibility to ensure that our students are aware

of the history of racism and hatred in our world.

In order to ensure that discrimination and hate comes to an end.

We need to teach students about the past.

So one sensitive topic that I think is really

important for students to know about is the holocaust.

Um it's

usually a really hard subject for teachers to talk about because it's so horrific.

Um and extremely sensitive and many individuals don't know how

to approach the topic of teaching about the holocaust.

However, if we don't approach it, then our students won't be aware of it and

we need to ensure that our

students are educationally and socially developed individuals

we need to discuss and teach about sensitive issues such as the holocaust

in order to make sure that our students are culturally and socially aware

of the world that we're living in.

Um it's essential that our seem to understand

that simply standing by and not doing anything

can have a perpetuating negative effect when faced

with social social injustice in the world today.

And in essence it's important to understand history

in order to prevent future acts of violence.

So it's something that I feel strongly about

and um I enjoy learning about the holocaust and I think

students need to know about it in order to be um socially

just citizens.

Over the course of this semester,

we learned about different modes of teaching

and different types of literacy that students

need to know in order to be um digital citizens in our world today.

So I find that it's important that students should be

learning about history using multiple modes, such as watching videos,

looking at photographs, reading literature,

learning about the topic in a variety of ways.

Um one of the best ways to learn about history is to recount it through documents.

So I would include this in my teaching of the holocaust.

Um I would also include videos and recounts

from those who are affected by this history.

So I feel that in terms of the holocaust,

I would use videos and literature that were written

from the perspective of victims of the holocaust.

It's extremely deep and touching to hear

um those recount what happened during the holocaust and what they went through.

Um it's emotional and raw, but it can clearly define how horrific this actually was.

So my approach to teaching my students about the holocaust would start with

a lesson in which they just discuss

themselves their identity things that they like and create a graphic organizer

in which they share the special things about themselves just to get

them engaged and get them to think about how everyone is special

in their own way and how everyone is different and everyone's unique.

Um I would then start

the actual teaching of the holocaust with

a K. W. L. O.

Chart what my students know about it,

what they want to know and what they have learned about.

It would obviously come after the unit as a post unit

um wrap up

during my unit. I would engage my students in learning through watching videos.

Um as I was researching this, I came across this website,

the holocaust encyclopedia, which is through the holocaust museum

and it provides a lot of really good information and documents related to the

holocaust that are wonderful for students to look at and absorb information from.

Um I also came across a video in which kids meet with a holocaust survivor.

And so I have my students watch that video and think about, you know,

the questions that these kids are asking and maybe come up with

a question of their own that they might ask a holocaust survivor.

Um

through the unit, I would also incorporate literature.

Um I recall reading number of the stars when I was in elementary school and I

really enjoyed that story and so I'd have my students um read this story with me,

we would probably read chapter every day

and discuss it in literature circles and giving

my students each their own job as part of the discussion in their literature circle.

Um and finally

I came across um this butterfly project which is um actually very cool. They use

these butterflies

As a way to remember the 1.5 million Children who were killed during the Holocaust.

So students create a butterfly and it's really just a way to teach students about

social justice through lessons on the Holocaust educating

students about the dangers of hatred and um

being able to cultivate empathy with others and social responsibility.

So I would have my students participate in this as well.

Um at the end of the unit,

I would create almost like a social justice wrap up for my students.

Um just so I know that they are really,

it's really hitting home that we have to treat others with kindness.

We have to be, you know, socially just humans in this world.

Um so that was my presentation and I hope you enjoyed it.

And um, I have all of these resources as well.

If anybody is interested in using them for, you know, their students as well.

Thanks.

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