Teaching Resources
Downloadable Lesson Plans
The Sydney Jewish Museum offers free curriculum-linked teaching resources underpinned by rigorous research and expert subject knowledge.
Below you will find a range of lesson plans, videos, worksheets and activities available for you to download and incorporate into your classroom.
Many of our resources offer a sneak peak behind the scenes of the Museum to discover a range of case studies, videos, objects and images that will help you bring history to life for your students.
These resources are dedicated to the memory of the Chotiner, Kraemer & Schifter families.
Teaching Resources
Lesson Plan: Before and After Your Museum Visit
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Pre and post visit resources for teachers to ensure students get the most out of their visit to the Sydney Jewish Museum.
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In this lesson, students will look at the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman.
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This resource delves into the economic factors that led to the rise of the Nazi party and the collapse of the Weimar Republic.
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This lesson plan introduces students to the concept of propaganda and asks students to analyse both past and present examples of persuasive material.
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This glossary features key terms that your Studies of Religion students might come across in their study of Judaism.
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This resource delves into the nature of the ideology of the Nazi Party, of which Adolf Hitler served as head.
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This resource is designed for ESL/EFL students that are being introduced to the Holocaust to the first time.
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In this lesson focused on the impact of the Nazi regime on women, students will engage in practical source analysis.
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In this resource students explore a site in a small rural town Serniki, where about 850 men, women and children were massacred in 1942.
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This lesson plan explores the contestability of the past through the lens of the Schnellbrief: a document that may have provided authorisation for establishment of ghettos.
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This lesson plan introduces students to a range of memorials and the ways they represent and commemorate the Holocaust.
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A lesson plan exploring the historical site of Treblinka extermination camp through testimony of two individuals who experienced it very differently.
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A resource to help students analyse collection objects to learn more about camp uniforms and the internees forced to wear them in the Holocaust.
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Pre and post visit resources for teachers to ensure students get the most out of their visit to the Sydney Jewish Museum.
- Stages: 4, 5, 6
- Subjects: History, English, Legal Studies, Modern History
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In this lesson, students will look at the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman.
- Stage: 4 English - Suggested Texts
- Stage 5: English - Suggested Texts
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This resource delves into the economic factors that led to the rise of the Nazi party and the collapse of the Weimar Republic.
- Stage: 6
- Subject: HSC Modern History
- Curriculum links:
- Core Study: Power and Authority in the Modern World - 1919-1946
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This lesson plan introduces students to the concept of propaganda and asks students to analyse both past and present examples of persuasive material.
- Stage: 5
- Subject: History
- Curriculum links:
- Core Study - Depth Study 3: Australians at War: World Wars I and II (1914-1918, 1939-1945)
- Depth Study 6: School-developed topic
- Curriculum links:
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This glossary features key terms that your Studies of Religion students might come across in their study of Judaism.
- Stage: 6
- Subject: Studies of Religion
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This resource delves into the nature of the ideology of the Nazi Party, of which Adolf Hitler served as head.
- Stage: 6
- Subject: HSC Modern History
- Curriculum links:
- Core Study: Power and Authority in the Modern World - 1919-1946
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This resource is designed for ESL/EFL students that are being introduced to the Holocaust to the first time.
- Stage: 5
- Subject: History
- Curriculum links:
- Core Study - Depth Study 3: Australians at War: World Wars I and II (1914-1918, 1939-1945)
- Depth Study 6: School-developed topic
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In this lesson focused on the impact of the Nazi regime on women, students will engage in practical source analysis.
- Stage: 6
- Subject: Modern History
- Curriculum links:
- Stage 6 HSC Modern History, Core Study: Power and Authority in the Modern World - 1919-1946
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In this resource students explore a site in a small rural town Serniki, where about 850 men, women and children were massacred in 1942.
- Stage: 6
- Subject: Modern History
- Curriculum links:
- Stage 6 Preliminary Modern History, Investigating Modern History – The Nature of Modern History
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This lesson plan explores the contestability of the past through the lens of the Schnellbrief: a document that may have provided authorisation for establishment of ghettos.
- Stage: 6
- Subject: Modern History
- Curriculum links:
- Stage 6 Preliminary Modern History, Investigating Modern History – The Nature of Modern History
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This lesson plan introduces students to a range of memorials and the ways they represent and commemorate the Holocaust.
- Stage: 6
- Subject: Modern History
- Curriculum links:
- Stage 6 Preliminary Modern History, Investigating Modern History – The Nature of Modern History
Free
A lesson plan exploring the historical site of Treblinka extermination camp through testimony of two individuals who experienced it very differently.
- Stage: 6
- Subject: Modern History
- Curriculum links:
- Stage 6 Preliminary Modern History, Investigating Modern History – The Nature of Modern History
Free
A resource to help students analyse collection objects to learn more about camp uniforms and the internees forced to wear them in the Holocaust.
- Stage: 5
- Subject: History
- Curriculum links:
- Stage 5: History, Core Study - Depth Study 3: Australians at War: World Wars I and II (1914-1918, 1939-1945)
- Depth Study 6: School-developed topic
Video Resources
Browse our selection of short videos featuring educators and curators speaking about objects from the Sydney Jewish Museum collection.
Use them in your lessons, or share them with your students and enable them to come face to face with the evidence and artefacts. Bring your lessons to life as we share the hidden stories these objects tell.
Below is a range of videos available for you to incorporate into your teaching materials.
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