Before becoming an expert on one aspect of this topic, we’d better make sure that everyone on your WebQuest team knows the basics.
Use the links below to answer
the six general questions:
Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How?
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - Rescuers & Resisters
Includes a Timeline and overview of the Holocaust
Visit the website
Teenagers who resisted
Visit the website
Everyday people & their roles in the events of the Holocaust
Assists educators teaching about the behaviour and motives of 'bystanders' who did little to protest the persecution that led to the Holocaust
Visit the website
Holocaust Personal Histories
Comprehensive site
Visit site
Now that you have gleaned some overall
background knowledge, you know a little about what happened. Your primary task is to reflect about the main question.
- Skim through the web sites linked below looking for things that you
think are interesting.
- Take notes of what facts, ideas, examples, and stories are most interesting to you.
- When you are finished, join up with your Editorial Team.
- Questions this big and important are best answered when you look
at the question from different perspectives.
This way, team members can become experts on different aspects of the question and then come together to share their learning.
Make sure everyone on your team can answer all six questions before moving into your individual roles
The Editorial Team
Historian
Photo Journalist
Interviewer
Reporter
Group Instructions
- Share what you have learnt
- Hear what your team members have learnt
- Together, come up with 3-5 important questions that relate the past to the present.
- Write down the important questions and use them in an editorial team discussion in class.
- See what your team think based on what they may have explored.
Are you ready? Let's begin
