The Holocaust - Year 9 scheme of learning

A complete unit designed for Year 9 on The Holocaust.

This unit is fully resourced for each lesson, including clearly chunked activities and assessment points at the end of each unit based around a central question.

The following lessons are included (each roughly 1hr to deliver):

1. How has history treated the Jewish people?
2. How did the Nazis make Jewish people look?
3. What were the Nuremberg Laws?
4. What was the significance of Kristallnacht?
5. The Final Solution
6. What was it like inside the camps?
7. What was it like in Auschwitz?
8. Were Jewish people the only group targeted?
9. Liberation of the camps
10. The Nuremberg Trials
11. Legacy of the Holocaust: how is it remembered?
12. Genocides after the Holocaust

All units focus on the core skills of history (chronology, causation, change and continuity, historiography, source-analysis and judgement making), and are part of an overall theme for the year (For Year 7 this is ‘The Changing Nature of Power’, for Year 8 it is ‘Progress vs Regress’ and for Year 9 it is ‘Conflict’).

Each unit is also designed to focus on inclusive, social, history where possible. This aims to include the experiences of black people, disabled, LGBT and other minority groups throughout history. This innovative approach is in line with Ofsted’s framework regarding inclusivity in the curriculum and avoids the issue of tokenism within history.

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Note 2: I do use graphic photographs in this unit (as I believe in telling the truth of history). All pupils are offered a choice as to whether or not they would wish to see these.