Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.21d
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.21
- Evaluate the extent to which the legal responses, including the Nuremberg Trials, held Nazi officials to account for war crimes and crimes against humanity.*
Develop an argument regarding the need for education about the Holocaust and how museums, memorials, and organizations can be used to preserve memory and combat Holocaust denial.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Post-War
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students make an evidence-based argument for teaching the Holocaust. They explain how museums, memorials, and organizations preserve records and testimony, honor victims, and counter denial.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student makes a clear claim about why Holocaust education is needed. They cite a specific record or testimony and explain how a named institution preserves it and makes it available to the public.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students treat Holocaust denial as an open historical question rather than a rejection of extensive evidence. Others assume a memorial speaks for itself without explaining the records, names, or testimony behind it.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: In four sentences, explain why Holocaust education is needed and how one named museum, memorial, or organization helps counter denial. Cite one record or testimony from today's sources.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed USHMM artifact record and testimony excerpt to mount on paper with captions explaining what each documents.
Ask students to write a claim about why the Holocaust should be taught, supported by two sources from the lesson.
Play source-match: give groups cards showing a transport list, testimony, memorial inscription, and museum catalog entry, plus claims each can support.
Use the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial website to find one conservation project, then explain how preserving that site supports public memory.
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