Lesson Plans

Onsite Learning: A special approach to Generation Z

This PowerPoint offers an overview of how to create an onsite learning experience for students, what to consider as you plan, and some of the challenges you may face.

Promises

The broad theme of these lessons is human connection, and a more specific theme is promises: how people keep promises, or don’t, and what happens in either situation. Students are...

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

Video Competition 1st prize | Soul Revolution

watch here 2016's 1st prize winner of the Centropa Video Competition 

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...

Video Making Guidelines

An easy, step-by-step guide for teachers and students how to make videos on "The Jewish history of my town".

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...

From "The Other" to Another

Too often, individuals or groups are labelled as the Other. The other is someone outside the group, they are considered diffferent; they are not wanted; they are labelled and...

Cross-cultural projects: Holocaust and Civil Rights

This was an on-going, cross-cultural project consisting of several min- lessons taught over the course of the school year, designed and taught by Ilijan Kuzmanovic (Republika Srbska) and Jeff Renihan (US)...

How my school used the Polish Centropa exhibition

A Meeting of Minds, Culture, and Penfriends!

In this cross-cultural project with students in North Carolina and Slovakia, our students are paired with a penfriend based on shared interests. The NC students wrote letters, but penfriends will...

Then and Now

Students bring in a family photograph they like. This can be from a vacation, a holiday celebration, a family life cycle event, any photograph that includes the student. In class...

Cross-cultural Cookbook Project

We began by watching Centropa’s film So Memory Doesn’t Die, about Teofila Silberring’s harrowing experience during the Holocaust. She was saved from starvation by a kind family friend who gave...

Centropa exchange: Kielce and Greensboro

This project was carried out in two schools: VI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Juliusza Słowackiego in Kielce  (Poland) and Southeast Guilford High School (USA). In the beginning, students made intro videos...

Centropa Lesson Guidelines

We ask all teachers who submit their lesson to use these guidelines when writing up your lessons to submit for uploading to the website. Following these guidelines helps everyone who...

Exhibition: A century of Jewish culture or “We are all the same by the different ways”

The main theme:

(1) To bring a different culture to the students by showing them that it is not so much different.

(2) The secondary theme is an exhibition...

My Family and My Roots: A Film Project

In the framework of the Roots project, students choose a family member or a Jewish person, and use modern technologies to create a film presenting the story of that person...

The Great Centropa Treasure Hunt

Between 2000 and 2010, Centropa interviewed 1,200 Jewish Holocaust survivors still living in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. Centropa then digitized 22,000 of their...

The NEMESIS Cookbook Project

Students of EC №141 "ORT" participate in CJN Cookbook project. They do their own research and try to make the dish.

You can watch ther video by clicking here 

How to Use Centropa resources in the English Language Classroom

This lesson plan consists of a Powerpoint presentation that you can download  below.

Interwar Hungarian Photographers Project

Interwar Hungary produced some of the best modernist photographers: Imre Kertesz, Robert Capa, and Laszlo Moholy Nagy. All were Jewish. Another great Jewish Hungarian photographer of the period was Imre...

Of Shtetls and Cities

This project is a student museum about Czech Jewry. Students research the lives of Czechoslovakian Jews between World War One and World War Two.  The Museum consists of panels dedicated...

Cooking in the classroom: To cook or not to cook!

This lesson uses the interview from Hedvig Endrei, from Hungary. In a labor camp during the war, Mrs. Endrei and her friends wrote out a book of recipes and she...

Jewish Surnames

The goal of these lesson plans, which should take about 16 hours of class time + home work, is for each student to produce a short biographical film on the...

Creating a Student Museum

As of 2013, for three years students at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia have created, curated and been docents for museums they have made using Centropa...

World History Class Centropa Exam

This is a Centropa final exam for  10th grade students. The students will use interviews and albums. There have already been several steps along the path--this is the destination.

This...

Map of Centropa's Sephardic Interviews

photo taken by Horia Varlan, on November 14, 2008 , CC licensing