Annotation:
This is a hands-on lesson.  Students will learn the location of several countries where Jewish children lived before (and some after) the Jews went to the concentration camps.  The students will also be able to locate some of the places where concentration camps were located.

Primary Learning Outcomes:
1.  Students will be able to locate areas on a map of Europe.
2. Students will use an atlas to gather the information for their map.
 

Assessed QCCs:
Social Studies
    History
21    Topic: Depression, War and Recovery
Standard: Analyzes and explains major causes, events and personalities of World War II
- resurgence of nationalism, militarism, and imperialism
- major powers and their leaders
- Pearl Harbor
- the internment of Japanese Americans
- the Holocaust, and
- VE and VJ Day.

Social Studies
    Core Skills
67     Topic: Map and Globes
Standard: Uses atlases to locate and compare maps.

Materials and Equipment:
    -Copy of a map of Europe for each student
    -Map of Europe for the overhead
    -Colored pencils for each student
    -Colored Visa-Viv for the overhead
    -Atlas for each student

Procedures:
Step One:
The teacher will place her copy of the map on the overhead projector.  She will list on the board the names of the countries that the students are going to label.  The places are as follows: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Crete, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Libya, Norway, Poland, Russia, Yugoslavia.  The places that the students will locate for the concentration camps are as follows: Weimar, Germany; Belsen, Germany; Warsaw, Poland; and Prague, Czechoslvakia.

Step Two:
The teacher will label Germany, France, and Italy for the students.  She will show them that in order to find the rest of the places, the students will need to use their atlas.  They are to look up a map of Europe (the teacher will give the page number).

Step Three:
The teacher will tell the students to finish their maps.  The students are to use a pen to write the names of the cities and countries.  The students are to then color the countries using the colored pencils.  The students are to use a jewish star to indicate a concentration camp.

Assessment:
The students will turn in the maps to be graded.

Pre/Post Test
7. The children that lived during the Holocaust were from many places in Europe.
            True or False

8. List 5 of the 20 countries that we listed on our map in class.
 

Rubric for Questions 7 and 8