Approved Lesson Plans
SB 1828 assigns the THGAAC the task of approving lesson plans that can be used in the classroom and allows Texas school districts to decide which materials are age-appropriate for their students.
All lesson plans on the Holocaust and/or antisemitism from the following organizations are approved. Educators can pick from this list and use what works best for their students.
Echoes & Reflections
- Offers options of a One Day Lesson Plan, as well as Day Two Lesson Plan
- Twelve interactive, comprehensive units (Teachers are free to choose the ones they have time to teach)
- I. Studying the Holocaust
- II. Antisemitism
- III. Nazi Germany
- IV. The Ghettos
- V. The "Final Solution"
- VI. Liberation
- VII. Jewish Resistance
- VIII. Rescue and Righteous Among the Nations
- IX. Complicity and Responsibility
- X. Justice, Life, and Memory After the Holocaust
- XI. Gringlas Unity on Antisemitism After the Holocaust
- XII. Teaching About the Genocide
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Variety of lessons using primary source material from the museum's collection
- Recommended lesson plans include:
Teaching the History of European Antisemitism (Institute for Curriculum Services)
Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust (from Facing History and Ourselves)
How Was It Possible? (from Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
Death Marches (from USC Shoah Foundation)
