Lesson Plans

This lesson looks at various international organizations and sovereign states and their action or inaction during the Rwandan Genocide. Students, in groups, analyze primary and secondary source documents and determine what, if any, responsibility or blame should be assigned to the various parties.
 

This is a Document Based Question lesson plan that helps students improve their document analysis skills while at the same time evaluating the events and effects of the Rwandan genocide.

Resource Guide - overview of the causes, events and the responses to the genocide. Also provides educators with a list of resources they can use in their classroom.

This lesson has two purposes. It teaches students about one young man's experience in Cambodia during the genocide and helps them develop awareness of the different life experiences of their classmates. I would show the video clip first and then have the students read the story and respond to the discussion questions

This PBS lesson is designed for students who already have some background knowledge regarding the genocide. It provides a thorough list of objectives, instructions, and resources for educators to use in their classrooms.

IWitness is an educational website developed by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education that provides access to more than 1,500 full life histories, testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides for guided exploration. IWitness brings the human stories of the Institute's Visual History Archive to secondary school teachers and their students via engaging multimedia-learning activities.

An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature.