Lesson Plans

Centropa Biography Film/Stolpersteine Assignment

Analyzing a Centropa Film

Students watch films all the time.  But do they think about how a good story is told through film?  To get your students to think about how filmmakers tell stories...

Tips on Making a Video

This video, made by students at the Adelson Campus in Las Vegas, NV, in the US, offers tips to those making films for avoiding common pitfalls.

Here is the link:  https://youtu.be/Ovwm7Nl6gso

Analyzing a Centropa Film

Teachers use this activity for any project where students are asked to create a story on film or another visual presentation (Prezi, PowerPoint), including the Virtual Walking Tour project (students...

School Tableau Project

It is a Austro-Hungarian tradition for schools to take group photographs of graduating classes, and post them in shops around town and throughout the school for everyone to take pride...

Homeland Project

This project will introduce you to editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, while letting you explore a social/historical issue. This issue affected many Jews in the 20th Century and is...

History of Holocaust Final Exam Project

This final exam project culminates a semester of study and storytelling about Jewish life in Central Europe and the Holocaust that started with students presenting their own stories in picture...

Life During World War II

This is a history project but because we want our students ultimately to teach each other, we started with an introductory video conference during which students asked each other questions...

Digital Story Telling

This is a project that combines a variety of skills and tools with modern technology to create films similar to those produced by Centropa.

Students produce digital stories, using narratives...