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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Protection

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create dolls in a variety of skin tones to help reinact different community helpers. They make a helping hands mural on butcher block paper. They adopt a doll and demonstrate how to treat others gently. They discuss along...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Transcription of the Virginia Declaration

For Teachers 6th - 12th
In this teaching primary resources worksheet, students read a transcription of the Virgina Declaration . Students read the excerpt and discuss its significance.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Israel And Hamas Reject Amnesty Report

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Israel And Hamas Reject Amnesty Report," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Pinochet Indicted for Murder

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL worksheet, students read the given article and its presented vocabulary throughout.  Students respond to 51 short answer, matching, true/false, and fill in the blank questions.    
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Website
Other

Enough Project: The Project to End Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about efforts being made to eradicate genocide and other crimes against humanity by activist group Enough.
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Handout
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch: Macedonia

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the six-month struggle in 2001 between the Macedonian government and Albanian insurgents, the National Liberation Army. What caused this to happen? What crimes against humanity did each side impose on innocent civilians?...
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust:nazi War Crimes & Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
A reference to Nazi War Crimes & Trials.
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: Nuremberg War Crimes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a summary of who was charged in the Nuremberg War Crimes' trials along with excerpts from the official charges against them. Links are provided throughout for additional information on related...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: 10 Things You May Not Know About the Nuremberg Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
The post-World War II trials marked the first-ever prosecutions for genocide and crimes against humanity. Held directly after World War II, the Nuremberg Trials were a series of 13 military tribunals in which nearly 200 German...
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Article
US Department of State

U.s. Dept. Of State: 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: China

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive account of human rights practices in China for the year 2018. Per the US Department of State, China's "human rights record remained poor and worsened in some areas." Sections of the report include: Arbitrary or Unlawful...
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Website
Other

Amnesty International Usa

For Students 9th - 10th
Amnesty International USA is a consciousness-raising organization for human rights. Its goals are lofty and may make many people uncomfortable as they read stories of grotesque crimes against human kind. This is an excellent site to...
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Website
BBC

Bbc: The Charges Against Charles Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the crimes that Charles Ghankay Taylor, former president of Liberia, committed during the civil war in Liberia. Outlines what the crimes were. Click on the links on the right for more information on Taylor and the crimes.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Hadamar Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the first trial in the US zone in Germany for massed atrocities. In the Hadamar Trial, those responsible for the euthanization center at Hadamar were tried for the killing of foreign prisoners, because laws did not yet...
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Article
BBC

Bbc: Khmer Rouge Judges Begin Work

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents the process of bringing the Khamer Rouge to justice. Discusses the fact that many people believed that the Khamer Rouge would never come to trial for their crimes against humanity.
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Primary
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Doctors Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from official transcripts and photos from the trial evidence against twenty-three German doctors and administrators.
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Handout
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: Nuremberg Trials 1945 49

For Students 9th - 10th
A large selection of primary source documents, pictures, biographical sketches and much more about the famous war crimes trials held over a period of several years in Nuremberg after World War 2.
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Article
United Nations

Un: Sierra Leone: Un Backed Court Convicts Three Rebel Leaders for War Crimes

For Students 9th - 10th
Briefly discussed is the trial of three men who led a rebel movement in Sierra Leone and were found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). (26 February 2009)
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Handout
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: The Judges Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of the "Judges Trial," a trial held at Nuremberg of German law judges who had worked for the Nazis during World War 2.
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Website
Other

Canada and the International Criminal Court

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive website from the Canadian Government FAIT Department detailing the nation's involvement in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Lists important topics, news, history and other relevant information,...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: Nuremberg Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking...
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Marking the 50th Anniversary of Eichmann's Trial in Jerusalem

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit takes an in-depth look at the Eichmann Trial. Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi who had an active role the Final Solution. He was tried and convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. Read background on how...
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Website
BBC

Bbc: Taylor Flies in for Hague Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed account of the beginning of Charles Taylor's trial for war crimes. It also chronicles what happened during the Liberian civil war and how Taylor was brought to justice.
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Handout
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Biotechnology

For Students 9th - 10th
Students read through a complete, interactive lesson on biotechnology. An activity at the end allows students to research and present arguments for or against statements about the ethics of gene therapy and gene manipulation.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Eichmann Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann that took place in Israel in the early 1960s. He was indicted on 15 counts of 'crimes against humanity' and in 1962 was executed by hanging.