A unit of instruction studying the events of the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945 and that this is known as the Holocaust. The aim is to enable students to understand the history and to understand that genocide is a consequence of prejudice and discrimination.
This unit is suitable for year 6.
Lesson topics include:
Offering hope while spreading hate
Nazis - ethnicity and religion
Nazis and the Jews
Ghettos
The Wannsee conference
Extermination Camps
The story of the Frank family
An interesting set of presentations with notes for students and worksheets, including a section on the history of trading and money and activities for students to learn about managing budgets, business and money.
There are fourteen topics:
Why people trade
Bartering in the Ancient World
Money, trading and business words.
What is money?
The history of money
Things that we should all know about money.
Responsibility - looking after our money
Budgets
Banks and banking
International Currencies
Going into business – A Business Plan
Different Types of Business.
Shares, Stocks and Bonds
Interest and Dividends
Each topic has slides, which indicate when to break for activities and activities related to those slides.
The first in a series of presentations and worksheets, this chapter focuses on
Why people trade
Students will discuss how the need for trade developed.
There is an exercise in which students will recall negotiating with others. There is also a drawing and labeling exercise.
The presentation can be used by the teacher to introduce and develop the topic, “Why People Trade”. The notes correlate with the presentation and are followed by the activities.