Process.
All teachers should start by teaching their students how to use the Library of Congress website to do research.
The English, History, and Math teachers will together as a team divide the seventh grade class into groups of 6. Each group will do research on a concentration camp, a victim from that camp, make a map of Europe, and statistics on that camp.
In each of your groups, two volunteers will take on each part of the webquest:
This whole process is completed with the English, History, and Math classes in the seventh grade. This project will take place over the course of the month with the final musuem exhibit presentation taking place at the end of that month.
Even though the teachers are the ones dividing the students into the groups, students within the groups will be the ones to volunteer for which area they want to focus on whether it be English, History, or Math task. Each group chooses their own concentration camp to focus on and no two groups can pick the same camp.
One thing that teachers need to look out for while the students are working on these projects is to make sure the groups are working together well. If there are issues within the group, the students should first try to resolve it on their own but the teacher should step in when needed. Moving a student(s) to a different group should be the last result but may be necessary in certain instances; use your best teacher judgement. Teachers should check in with the groups weekly to see the progress they are making and make sure they are moving along. If a group is having trouble finding information, then the teacher can direct them to addtional resources, ones that are not necessarily from the Library of Congress.
In order for teachers to be successful guides for this project, they need to have experience and knowledge about the Holocaust and the various concentration camps that were a part of it. It would be helpful if the teachers have been to at least one Holocaust museum so they have an idea of what their students' exhibits should look like. Teachers should prepare their students on how to answer questions museum visitors might have about their exhibit.
The English, History, and Math teachers will together as a team divide the seventh grade class into groups of 6. Each group will do research on a concentration camp, a victim from that camp, make a map of Europe, and statistics on that camp.
In each of your groups, two volunteers will take on each part of the webquest:
- Two students will research the life of victims from the Holocaust, using primary sources, and use this information to write 3 diary entries from the perspective of one of the victims.
- Two students will map out a timeline of their chosen concentration camp which needs to include its creation, major events that happened there, and its ultimate liberation.
- Two students will research the concentration camp statistics that include but are not limited to: How many prisoners were there in the camp? How many prisoners were killed there? What percentage of prisoners were from each European country? What percentage of prisoners were women? children? men? How far did prisnors travel to arrive at the concentration camp? Include a map of Europe that has a string from a city or country that goes to the concentration camp and the distance between those two points.
This whole process is completed with the English, History, and Math classes in the seventh grade. This project will take place over the course of the month with the final musuem exhibit presentation taking place at the end of that month.
Even though the teachers are the ones dividing the students into the groups, students within the groups will be the ones to volunteer for which area they want to focus on whether it be English, History, or Math task. Each group chooses their own concentration camp to focus on and no two groups can pick the same camp.
One thing that teachers need to look out for while the students are working on these projects is to make sure the groups are working together well. If there are issues within the group, the students should first try to resolve it on their own but the teacher should step in when needed. Moving a student(s) to a different group should be the last result but may be necessary in certain instances; use your best teacher judgement. Teachers should check in with the groups weekly to see the progress they are making and make sure they are moving along. If a group is having trouble finding information, then the teacher can direct them to addtional resources, ones that are not necessarily from the Library of Congress.
In order for teachers to be successful guides for this project, they need to have experience and knowledge about the Holocaust and the various concentration camps that were a part of it. It would be helpful if the teachers have been to at least one Holocaust museum so they have an idea of what their students' exhibits should look like. Teachers should prepare their students on how to answer questions museum visitors might have about their exhibit.