Annotation:
    This lesson is designed for students to work in small groups.  Students will work in small groups to research a given topic.

Primary Learning Outcome:
1. Students will create a report using multiple aids.
2. Students will create a report on different parts of the Holocaust
3. Students will creat 3 questions to ask the class over the material they learned.
4. Students will present their reports orally to the class.

Assessed QCCs:
Strand: Core Social Studies Skills
26     Topic: Information Processing
Standard: Uses features of books for information: table of contents, index, glossary, appendix, bibliography.

Strand: 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.

Strand: Core Social Studies Skills
37     Topic: Information Processing
Standard: Formulates questions related to topic.

Strand: Listening/Speaking
37     Topic: Information Processing
Standard: Formulates questions related to topic.
 

Materials and Equipment:
    -research materials for each group

Procedures:
Step One:
The teacher will divide the class up into 4 groups.  Each group will be given one of 4 topics to research.  The four topics are as follows:
    Adolf Hitler; the Nazi Party; Jewish children during the Holocaust; concentration camps

Step Two:
The teacher will tell the students that they are going to create a research paper on the topic they have be assigned.  They are to break up the topic so that everyone has a part.  The research papers are to be detailed.  If the group has Hitler, they are to tell about his entire life.  Get the earliest information out there about him.  The group should discuss his political career.  The ending of his career and life should also be addressed.  The group with the Nazi Party should discuss how the party got started, what type of standards they held, any other important information they find.  The other two groups should research their topics and give any interesting facts about their topics.

Step Three:
The students will use many different types of media to find out information.  The teacher will explain to the students that they can use websites, dictionaries, encyclopedias, books, etc.  The students will use these resources to gather their information.

Step Four:
The students will compile all the information they have gathered into at least a 5 page paper.  It may or may not be typed, but it must be double spaced either way.  The report will be handed into the class.

Step Five:
The students will divide up the report.  Each student will orally present a section of the report to the class.  The students are to familiarize themselves with what they are going to say.  They will have notes written on the index cards.  They will not read word for word from the card.  The students are to look at the class and only refer to their index cards as ques.

Assessment:
The teacher will collect the written report.  This report will be graded.  The teacher will also grade how well each group presents their project orally.  A rubic for both activities is included.
 

Pre/Post Test

9. Who was the leader of the Nazi Party?
    a. Adolf Hitler
    b. Bill Clinton
    c. Sadaam
    d. your teacher

10. Tell how you are supposed to give an oral report.

Rubric for questions 9 and 10