Lessons and resources for Jewish American Heritage Month
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Guide for educators of common questions that may arise when teaching Jewish American Heritage lesson plans.
Engage in a family conversation about the origins of Jewish American Heritage Month and why we celebrate and commemorate it.
Children's books about Jewish people and the Jewish experience
This resource assists parents, families and other trusted adults in understanding and helping the young people in their lives who are facing antisemitism—in school, online, in communities.
Help students explore and think critically about films on the Jewish experience.
Teach students about the history of the N-word, its harm and impact and engage them in exploring school-based scenarios.
Teach students about disability rights activist Judy Heumann and what work in schools and communities still remains.
Echoes & Reflections: Teaching the HolocaustGRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language The lessons in this unit increase students’ understanding of Jewish people and awareness that antisemitism did not end after the Holocaust, and provide them with opportunities to learn about the persistence of antisemitism in its contemporary forms. Students investigate the ways in which old ideas about Jews and Judaism have…
GRADE LEVEL: High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Language We see symbols every day in all aspects of our lives. Symbols are used to convey ideas, qualities, emotions, material objects/products, opinions and beliefs. Unfortunately, symbols are also used to convey hate and bias. Lately, we have seen a lot of hate symbol graffiti in public spaces and specifically the swastika, which in most circumstances is understood as an expression of antisemitism. There has reportedly…
Share and discuss with middle and high school students war-time experiences of three child survivors and how the Holocaust affected them.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s came about out of the need and desire for equality and freedom for African Americans and other people of color. Nearly one hundred years after slavery was abolished, there was widespread segregation, discrimination, disenfranchisement and racially motivated violence that permeated all personal and structural aspects of life for black people. “Jim Crow” laws at the local and state levels barred African Americans from…