NLPS -BDJMS Holocaust Tasks webquest

The Holocaust: Bullies, Victims and Allies
A Webquest for 7th graders

The Tasks:

You will be assigned to either group A, B or C by your instructor.

1) Required by Everyone

Write an editorial about “Making the right choices in today’s society”. This could be in your school, community or globally.

The activities that you completed for your Electronic Field trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum should help you complete this part of the assignment.

http://www.bullying.org
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/bullying/

http://www.childline.org.uk/Bullying.asp

http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B0A7E5364-8876-48C5-AAC6-7EB50E2D6EA9%7D&siteid=google&dist=google

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5301.html

2) Write a story about a survivor of the Holocaust. This might be in the form of an interview or be based on reading testimony from survivors. It could be a survivor who was in hiding, in a concentration camp, a survivor from the bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, someone who survived the bombings in Europe or maybe someone who escaped.

Links:

Streaming Video: Joseph Korzenik's presentation to BDJMS Students in May 2004:

Streaming Video Broadband

Streaming Video Dial Up (from home)

Video of the Virtual Field Trip ()Live over the Internet) taken in February 2005 to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. by 7th Graders at Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School.

Streaming Video Broadband

http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/victims/

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/auschwitz/

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/silentwitness/

http://www.remember.org/witness/wit.res.sold.html

http://www.remember.org/witness/wit.sur.luc.html

http://www.vhf.org/vhfmain-2.htm

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/

http://isurvived.org/

http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/interviews.html

3) Write a story about a perpetrator (bully) during the Holocaust. This could be a story about a Nazi soldier, someone who turned in people who were in hiding, etc.

http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/victims/

http://www.remember.org/witness/links.let.eut.html

http://www.remember.org/witness/links.let.vans.html

http://www.remember.org/witness/links.let.nazi.html

http://www.remember.org/witness/links.sp.hit.html

http://www.remember.org/witness/links.sp.page.html

4) Write about someone who worked as an ally hiding, rescuing or fighting in the resistance movement.

Links:

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/danish/

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/uprising/

http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/pages/t066/t06665.html