Refugees
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Wars and environmental upheavals force millions of families from their homes every year. These resources are intended to help teachers introduce middle school students to the issues raised by mass migrations of refugees.
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UN High Commission
http://www.unhcr.org/help/4072c8174.html Refugee themes can help children understand fundamental issues in history, geography, human rights or education for citizenship; and they can bring an unexpectedly poignant and imaginative approach to teaching of language, literature or art. UNHCR has developed lesson modules for three different age groups that will help teachers introduce refugee issues into the curriculum of these different subject areas.
Well-Founded Fear
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov1999/wellfoundedfear/home.html Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini’s film Well-Founded Fear explores the complex and poignant world of refugees applying for political asylum in the United States. A web site connected with the film’s 1999 showing on POV allows users to play the role of an immigration officer reviewing cases, shows clips from the film, and gives instructions on how to order a copy.
FDR’s Foreign Policy
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1978/3/78.03.05.x.html This wide-ranging lesson plan by Henry J. Brajkovic of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute can be excerpted to create classes on the millions of refugees created by World War II, such as European Jews or Germans in Sudetenland.
CNN Mideast Backgrounder
http://edition.cnn.com/fyi/interactive/0108/mideast/index.html CNN Student News offers this guide to explain the ongoing troubles of the Middle East to a middle-school audience, along with a corresponding lesson plan for parents and educators. Video clips cover such subjects as the role of water in the Middle Eastern politics, the Six-Day War, and the campaign to create a separate country for Palestinian refugees.
Voices From The Dust Bowl
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html The Library of Congress digitized the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, which documents the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk Song.
Teaching About The Holocaust
http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has many resources for teachers striving to help students learn the history of the Holocaust and reflect upon the moral and ethical questions raised by that history. These include Teaching about the Holocaust: A Resource Book for Educators, which provides guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust, a historical summary and chronology, and an annotated bibliography and videography on Holocaust-related topics.
