Educator Curriculum Guide
The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center was selected by the New York State Education Department to revise and update all curricular resources to teach the Holocaust and other genocides to support educators in the implementation of the 1994 mandate. The extensive collection of resources for social studies and English Languages educators is available on ConsiderTheSourceNY.org, a free online educational platform managed by the New York Archives Partnership. The platform includes resources by time period, activities/lessons, literature guides, readings and case studies with questions, glossaries, pacing guides to help educators plan content delivery. One of the guiding principles is the notion of unique people rather than anonymity, reflecting the importance of case studies of individuals as lenses into a better comprehension of the enormity and complexity of these historical events.
The initiative aligns with the NYS Social Studies Framework, the Learning Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education framework, and the Social Emotional Learning Benchmarks.
The material is geared towards students in grades 8-12, but there are also resources for younger grades. Materials can be adapted for both special education and English-as-a -New Language classes.
Click here to review the wide variety of resources available for New York State teachers and educators.
from teachers who have studied and taught
the Holocaust in the context of history and the language arts
of activities, historical documents and assessment tools fromThe New York State Core Curriculum and Learning Standards in English Language Arts and Social Studies