America and the Holocaust
This course is for Teachers of middle or high school and meets the following professional development criteria: academic content, social studies, reading comprehension, and teaching skills.
Participants will complete a written project, performance assessment and an action plan for implementation.
Participants will be assessed using a multiple choice pre and post assessment. Scores on the post assessment must be at least 80%. In addition a lesson plan or project with action plan is required.
Finally an implementation plan will be completed by participants indicating how new learning will be integrated into their assignments.
In this course, teachers will delve into the wealth of information available to Americans from 1933 – 1945 on the unfolding events that constituted the Holocaust.
The course will define the American Bund, Operation Paper Clip, the Berlin Olympics of 1936, and the Great Depression. The course will expand to cover America’s rescuers and resistors of the Holocaust in Europe.
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