Florida SS.68.HE.1

SS.68.HE.1 is a Florida social studies standard. These are the benchmarks under it.

• SS.68.HE.1.1

  Examine the Holocaust as the planned and systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 a...

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What Students Need to Do

Students build a basic timeline of events that led to the Holocaust and identify the people and groups involved. They use maps, laws, photographs, and testimony to explain how antisemitism and Nazi policies developed into genocide.

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What Mastery Looks Like

Students can place major events in order and explain how rights were removed step by step. They can use evidence to distinguish the roles of victims, perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, and rescuers.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may think the Holocaust began with killing centers or affected only Jewish people. They may confuse concentration camps with killing centers or assume all Germans supported Nazi policies.

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How to Assess It

Give students five event cards to sequence, then ask: “How did one event make the next stage of persecution possible?” Require one cited detail.

1. 01

   Students arrange dated event cards on a wall timeline, then connect each Nazi law or action to its effect on targeted people.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: “Why does removing legal rights often happen before mass violence?” Support the answer with two historical examples.

3. 03

   Run a source-sorting challenge using photographs, laws, maps, and testimony, with students labeling each source by type, date, and possible use.

4. 04

   Read a current news report about antisemitism, then compare its language or actions with one documented historical warning sign.

• SS.5.HE.1

  The 5th Grade version of this standard.

• SS.2.CG.1

  Foundations of Government, Law and the American Political System

• SS.5.HE.1.1

  Define the Holocaust as the planned and systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 an...