A well written reflection that (a) highlights new and interesting content you learned through the project; (b)explicitly connects how the content connects with National and State Standards (c) communicates how what you learned from creating the project that will be of value to you as an elementary social studies teacher
A) Through my research of The Holocaust for my project, I learned that if someone with enough power wants something to be accomplished, whether it be right or wrong, it can happen. I learned that in the concentration camps, death was glorified by the Nazi party, and was made into a show for the other prisoners to watch. I found it very interesting that even though the camps were only miles from towns, no one had a clue that the mass killings were happening right through the woods. While I was doing my research, I read some personal accounts from Holocaust survivors and the world that they lived in behind the fences was something I feel was so devastating that the fact that people were able to make these nightmares become reality is a sickening thought.
B) The Holocaust content strongly connects with National and State standards because students have to learn about change over time and how the world has been shaped based on events in the past. For example, 3.H.2. states that students will understand the context of people, places, and events through the use of historical thinking. This standard and its subparts (3.H.2.1 Explain change over time through historical narratives. (events, people, and places and 3.H.2.2 Explain how multiple perspectives are portrayed through historical narratives.) works well with this context because learning about Holocaust survivors like Anne Frank, through her diary, is a way to use historical thinking, with a historical narrative, to learn about past events, being The Holocaust.
C) I think that one of the greatest impacts from learning about the Holocaust more in deathly will be my ability to keep the information truthful, but still be able to keep it at an elementary level so as not to overstep boundaries of what is appropriate in the the classroom. I also think that this project gave me quite a few resources that will be helpful in guiding my future lessons as well as sharing them with my colleagues. Lastly, I believe that through this project I have learned what the main "moral" of the story is, and how it is important as people of a society to be informed about what is going on in your community, city, state, country and the world. The more I teach my students to be informed citizens that more they will realize that as a population we can keep a control on what goes on behind closed doors, and prevent horrific acts like the Holocaust, and mass killings from happening again.
A) Through my research of The Holocaust for my project, I learned that if someone with enough power wants something to be accomplished, whether it be right or wrong, it can happen. I learned that in the concentration camps, death was glorified by the Nazi party, and was made into a show for the other prisoners to watch. I found it very interesting that even though the camps were only miles from towns, no one had a clue that the mass killings were happening right through the woods. While I was doing my research, I read some personal accounts from Holocaust survivors and the world that they lived in behind the fences was something I feel was so devastating that the fact that people were able to make these nightmares become reality is a sickening thought.
B) The Holocaust content strongly connects with National and State standards because students have to learn about change over time and how the world has been shaped based on events in the past. For example, 3.H.2. states that students will understand the context of people, places, and events through the use of historical thinking. This standard and its subparts (3.H.2.1 Explain change over time through historical narratives. (events, people, and places and 3.H.2.2 Explain how multiple perspectives are portrayed through historical narratives.) works well with this context because learning about Holocaust survivors like Anne Frank, through her diary, is a way to use historical thinking, with a historical narrative, to learn about past events, being The Holocaust.
C) I think that one of the greatest impacts from learning about the Holocaust more in deathly will be my ability to keep the information truthful, but still be able to keep it at an elementary level so as not to overstep boundaries of what is appropriate in the the classroom. I also think that this project gave me quite a few resources that will be helpful in guiding my future lessons as well as sharing them with my colleagues. Lastly, I believe that through this project I have learned what the main "moral" of the story is, and how it is important as people of a society to be informed about what is going on in your community, city, state, country and the world. The more I teach my students to be informed citizens that more they will realize that as a population we can keep a control on what goes on behind closed doors, and prevent horrific acts like the Holocaust, and mass killings from happening again.