With the help from our amazing librarian, Mrs. Thomas, students were able to experience the Holocaust and Auschwitz Concentration Camp with Virtual Reality Viewers, while also focusing on ELA content like inferencing, compare/contrast, adjectives, and figurative language. Students made inferences about where they were, described what they saw, answered questions about Elie Wiesel, saw a visual of what Mr. Wiesel described as the 'musselmanner' in his speech and identified figurative language. All of these activities were compiled in the app, NearPod. Finally, students did a NYTimes 360 degree video on "The Displaced" and compared and contrasted present-day displaced children to children of the Holocaust. Special thanks goes to our librarian for helping find the resources and co-teaching this lesson and bringing in relevant, real-world connections to history. Hopefully, students were given some understanding of the atrocities of our past as well as what children of war-torn countries go through today.
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