Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.12a
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.12
- Explain how killing squads, including the Einsatzgruppen, conducted mass shooting operations in Eastern Europe with the assistance of the Schutzstaffel (SS), police units, the army, and local collaborators.*
Locate on a map the Einsatzgruppen killing sites in Eastern Europe.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · The War in Europe
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find Babyn Yar, Paneriai, and Rumbula on a map of Eastern Europe. They connect each killing site to a nearby city and its present-day country.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student marks all three sites near the right cities and names Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia. They do not confuse these mass shooting sites with killing centers in occupied Poland.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may put every site in occupied Poland because they associate the Holocaust only with killing centers. They may label Kyiv as the site itself instead of placing Babyn Yar nearby.
How to Assess It
- Give students a blank map with Kyiv, Vilnius, and Riga labeled. Ask them to mark Babyn Yar, Paneriai, and Rumbula and write each site's present-day country.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a blank map and three site cards, then have them place pins for Babyn Yar, Paneriai, and Rumbula near their cities.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining how their map shows killings across several present-day countries.
Play a matching game with cards for the three sites, their nearby cities, and their present-day countries.
Use an online map to find the Babyn Yar memorial in Kyiv, then compare its location with a 1941 map.
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