Curriculum Materials

Students who have taken our graduate courses, "Teaching the Holocaust" and "Teaching Prejudice Reduction," as well as our Advanced Seminars in these courses have developed curricula for use at all grade levels. Recommended materials are listed below.

KINDERGARTEN/SPECIAL EDUCATION

• Diversity and Respect
• Literature: “The Giver”

GRADE 3/4

• Literature-General (2)
• Literature-Respecting Diversity
• Literature-“Night Crossing”
• Literature-“Journey to America”
• Immigrant Experience
• Bystanders

GRADE 5

• Being Different
• Through the Eyes of a Friend
• Rescue
• Number the Stars (2)
• Holocaust Through Art

GRADE 6

• Tolerance
• Literature: “Torn Thread”
• Literature: “Daniel’s Story”

GRADE 7/8

• Genetics
• Literature: “Number the Stars”
• Responsibility to Act
• History
• History/Literature
• Web Power Point Presentation

GRADE 9-12

• Literature (2)
• Art
• Cross Curricular
• Displaced Persons
• Religious Intolerance
• Minority Exper. In Amer.

We hope to have many of these materials available online soon; for now they are available at the Holocaust Resource Center for teachers to borrow for use in their own districts. Please contact thrc@kean.edu if you are interested in any of these curricula.