USHMM.ORG- 5th/6th Grade

Careful thought was put into the 5th and 6th Graders' computer activities this week.  Because the kids have recently finished reading Number The Stars, a novel that takes place in Europe during WWII, and because the students are learning about WWI and WWII in Social Studies, I looked into WWII resources on the Internet.  I found an excellent site to share with the kids- USHMM.ORG  We used this site to answer some questions that the students had about WWII and the Holocaust.  Specifically, we used the site to

• define the Holocaust, antisemitism, propaganda, concentration camp, ghetto and Treaty of Versailles
• discuss the origins of anti semitism
• discuss the impact of WWI and the Treaty of Versailles on Germany
• discuss the ways in which the Nazi propaganda changed the way of societal thinking
• view some of the types of literature that was used as propaganda

USHMM.ORG is an excellent, reliable source that I hope the students will visit when they are asked to study the Holocaust in more depth.