Topic 1 - CONFLICT
Introduction PowerPoint
Children in Conflict Poster Task
Lesson 1 - Children In Conflict
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In this lesson we will consider the impact of conflict on children's lives. We try to place ourselves in photographs to imagine what conflict might mean in our lives in the short and long term.
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Vocabulary this lesson;
Innocence
Trauma
Long-term
Loss
Tears
Anger
Emotion
Fairness
Lesson 2 - How can war affect children?
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This lesson we look at the different effects that war can have on children who have to live through it. We take the example of children in British cities who were evacuated during the Second World War and consider, through evaluating historical sources, the impact war had on their lives.
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Lesson 3 - Auschwitz and the Holocaust
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The key to this lesson is Empathy. I hope you will never understand truly the horrors that we look at in this series of lessons, but as long as you feel something for the people whom had their lives (and often the lives of their entire families) taken away.
There are many resources you can look at for this. I urge you to spend a little time looking for them (Google is your friend)
Anne Frank's Diary
Lesson 4 - What was the Final Solution?
By 1942, the Nazi army had advance across a huge swath of Europe. The Nazi high command came across a grim problem- some 11 million people they considered untermenschen (translated literally as sub-human. That is, not even of the same species as us) were now in their occupied territory.
The building above hosted a conference unlike any the world had really ever seen. In the town of Wannsee, very close to Berlin, Several Nazi officials (although none of any great importance individually) met and to discuss "the final solution to the Jewish question", a phrase as equivocal as it was terrible.
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"I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness: gas chambers built by learned engineers, children poisoned by educated physicians, infants killed by trained nurses, women and babies shot and burned by high school and college graduates.
So I am suspicious of education. My request is: help your children to become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are important only if the serve to make our children more humane."
Lesson 5 - How should we approach the study of the Holocaust?
Memorial task homework
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Holocaust Memorial Task
A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for memory of something, usually a person (who has died) or an event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures, statues or fountains and parks.
Berlin Holocaust Video here
In groups of 3-4, make a small model of a memorial for holocaust victims. The designs should be respectful and help people think, ponder and feel (not in a ghastly horrific way) about the event. You can use different types of materials and methods of building the model.
-Your memorial should be accompanied by any planning documents you have created (mind-maps etc).
-Your memorial can be in the form of a model, or a detailed sketch of what the memorial would look like - IT IS NOT A POSTER.
-Your memorial must be accompanied by a written piece of 250-500 words explaining what you have tried to show in your design.
- You should also make a short 5 minute presentation (can be PPT) on the thinking and design behind the memorial.
The time allocated to this task is 5 periods.
Lesson 6 - How should former Nazi's be treated?
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The question of how to deal with people who took part in the Holocaust is a difficult one. Firstly you have to think about guilt- It is clear that someone who directly murders another person is guilty. However, what if you saw the murder and did nothing? What if you lived near where murders took place? What if you were the company that supplied the Nazi's with Zyklon B (The gas used in the gas chambers)? What if you were the railway operator for the company that had its trains run to the Concentration Camps?
Working out who is guilty and punishable becomes an impossibility with a horror of this scale. Some people choose forgiveness (even some survivors go this route) and some cannot ever forgive or forget.
Whichever route you feel is most fitting is fine, but this lesson you must consider why you feel this way, and provide evidence to your opinion.
Lesson 7 - What are the biggest problems we face today as a species?Click for PowerPoint
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Padlet Link (Trust)
In this lesson we look at what the biggest issues facing our species are. We consider the Millennium Development Goals (MDG'S) and how they are being used to create a better world to live in.
Lesson 8 - The Work of NGO's around the world
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In this lesson we look at what NGO's are and the benefits the work of NGO's brings to the world.
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Lesson 9 - Petition