Number the Stars Teacher Guide

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Guide

This guide is intended to engage your students as young as 4th grade and uses Lois Lowry’s novel Number the Stars, primary sources, first-hand survivor accounts, as well as images and stories from Judy Glickman Lauder’s Beyond the Shadows to showcase the story of the Danish rescue and resistance during the Holocaust. It encourages students to analyze various primary sources such as survivor testimony, artifacts, and photography, helping them develop tools to understanding this difficult history and the important, relevant lessons for today.

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Topic
  • Holocaust
  • Storytelling
Setting
  • Congregational Learning
  • Day Schools and Yeshivas

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Mayim Children

Mayim, our initial example of "Additional" Models, could be placed in a Multi-aged, Project-Based Learning, or Experiential Learning bucket. Mayim is a K-5 learning community in which depth of relationships and depth of learning are intentionally fostered and visible everywhere.

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Chavurah CSR

Community Synagogue of Rye (CSR), NY. Learners in 5th-7th grade meet weekly with a moreh derech (guide/teacher) in each other’s homes to explore Jewish answers to everyday questions. The model includes Family Limmud monthly.

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Climbing Mt. Meron - A Lag BaOmer Scavenger Hunt

Learn about the origins and customs of Lag BaOmer while racing to the top of Mt. Meron.

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