Learning Resources
The Fragments in Focus exhibition offers 19 student activities and a companion Teacher’s Guide. There is also a glossary and historical timeline as supplementary resources.
The Teacher's Guide offers comprehensive teaching recommendations and suggestions for integrating the student activities of the Fragments in Focus online exhibition into the classroom. Click on the box to the right to view and download the Teacher's Guide.
There is one student activity associated with each theme in the online exhibition. Each activity is intended to take an average of 15 minutes to complete. Engage with student activities by clicking on the boxes below.
These inquiry-based student activities advance the development of historical thinking skills and the core competencies of the British Columbia curriculum:
- Communication - learning activities provide opportunities for students to collaborate and communicate. Through presentations and group discussions, student share their observations, interpretations and conclusions about themes of Holocaust study.
- Thinking - learning activities prompt students to think critically and reflectively about major themes in Holocaust history as they analyse primary sources from diverse perspectives (e.g. victims, perpetrators, witnesses, descendants, historians etc.) to form reasoned inferences and conclusions.
- Personal and Social - learning activities connect students to personal stories of individuals impacted by the Holocaust and invite them to consider the implication of this history upon people and communities.
