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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
Letter to Students (UK)
Read aloud this letter with your class before you embark on the unit Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour.
![Photography for Facing History and Ourselves web site and publications.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2017_FH256005.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=fQbWKce6)
An Inspector Calls USSR Poster
This poster was created for the 1945 world premiere of An Inspector Calls at the Leningrad Comedy Theatre in Moscow.
![Simple illustration of a silhouetted woman against a cityscape that is comprised of soot from chimneys](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/AIC_USSR_Poster_Medium_res.jpg?h=1d36513c&itok=K2rjuqQJ)
Colonising Poland (UK)
Learn about the Nazis’ plan to rearrange the population of Poland, which resulted in the displacement of more than a million ethnic Poles and Jews.
![An exhibit at a Berlin school persuades Germans to help colonize the Warthegau area of Poland. The exhibit says “The land calls you!,” and the painting shows a settler’s car passing by a Polish border sign that has been knocked down.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_ExhibitGermanysColonizationPoland_%20FH229464.jpg?h=83b6248d&itok=71GQUBqx)
The Holocaust - Bearing Witness
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Use these slides to introduce students to the enormity of the crimes committed during the Holocaust and look closely at stories of a few individuals who were targeted by Nazi brutality.
![Jewish women and children walk toward gas chambers.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/GasChambers_FH229475_teaser.jpeg?h=2cea9ccb&itok=kOPay9PM)
The Holocaust - The Range of Responses
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Use these slides to help students deepen their examination of human behaviour during the Holocaust by analysing and discussing the range of choices available to individuals, groups, and nations.
![Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WhiteRoseResistanceGroup_FH229473.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=BjXT-amv)
Universe of Obligation (UK)
Reflect on how individuals, communities, and nations decide who has rights that are worthy of respect and protection with this introduction to the concept of the "universe of obligation".
![Integrated classroom listening to lecture.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Integrated_Classroom_at_Anacostia_High_School_Washington_DC.jpg?h=84d4f253&itok=A77sd2zj)
Auschwitz (UK)
Allow students to reflect on a range of experiences and stories from the Holocaust in a Big Paper silent discussion.
![Women and children wearing star badges at Auschwitz-Birkenau.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/WomenandChildrenatAuschwitzBirkenau_FH229475.jpg?h=991b0af6&itok=HhLFI9yG)
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour: Unit Overview
This unit overview gives you a brief summary of all of the lessons in the unit and lists the materials needed alongside the main activities.
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We May Not Have Another Chance (UK)
Allow students to reflect on a range of experiences and stories from the Holocaust in a Big Paper silent discussion.
![A crowd of women and children, some with Stars of David patches on their clothing.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Ch09_Image02.jpg?h=991b0af6&itok=WRPl5J8e)
An Overview of the Nuremberg Trials (UK)
This handout introduces students to key events from the Nuremberg Trials.
![Defendants in the dock during the Nuremberg war crimes trials.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1946_NurembergDefendantsintheDock_FH217315.jpg?h=b47cd95b&itok=Kp-NA5W_)
Voices in the Dark
Use this handout in a Stations activity that asks students to explore several aspects of life in the Weimar Republic.
![Poster for Women's Day, March 8, 1914, demanding voting rights for women.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Frauentag_1914_Heraus_mit_dem_Frauenwahlrecht.jpg?h=3818de31&itok=CNoaJGZQ)