MAGPI is proud to partner with The
Goodwin Holocaust Museum and Education Center, NJEDge.Net,
and The NJ Commission on Holocaust Education to
present this outstanding series of educational videoconference events for schools in 2014. As part of this partnership MAGPI and NJEDge.Net members
receive access to these programs at no charge.
Don't miss these wonderful programs from the Goodwin Holocaust and Education Center - register your school today!
How Teens Can Make a Difference
Date: Thursday January 16, 2014
Time: 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM EST
Target Audience: Students in Grades 7-12
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
As Martin Luther King Day approaches, have your students join in conversation with a panel of local teens who have made a difference in their schools and in their communities. When we teach students about the Holocaust, we ask them to become an “upstander.”
Let’s have our students talk about how they have already started to do that and give them suggestions for new ways for them to make a difference in the lives of others.Also learn about the Josiah
DuBois Scholarship offered by the GHMEC to students in honor of Josiah DuBois, a former NJ resident whose actions are credited with helping to save hundreds of thousands of lives during the Holocaust.
Holocaust.
More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/How-Teens-Can-Make-Difference-0
Sonja's Legacy
Date: Wednesday January 22, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST
Target Audience: Students in Grades 6-12
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
The images in Sonja’s Legacy provide a unique way for children and adults to learn abo ut the Holocaust and tolerance. Meet Dr. Robert Fischl as he presents copies of his cousin Sonja’s artwork created when she was imprisoned in the Terezin Concentration
Camp, family photographs, and tells his own story of survival.
More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Sonjas-Legacy
Meet a Holocaust Survivor, a Concentration Camp Liberator, and the child of a Survivor
Date: Monday January 27, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST
Target Audience: Students in Grades 6-12
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
The United Nations has designated January 27th as the International Day of Commemoration of the
Holocaust. Have your students join in a conversation with these eyewitnesses to history and get the insight of those whose lives have been changed forever because of the Holocaust, as well as students from 4 other schools.
More Information/Registration :http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/International-Day-Commemoration-Holocaust
Genocide in Today's World
Date: Wednesday February 5,, 2014
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST
Target Audience: Students in Grades 9-12 only
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
Meet Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, who volunteered as a physician for “Doctors Without Borders” in Darfur, and discuss issues about Darfur and Genocide today.All students are required to watch the movie, The Devil Came
on Horseback, before participating in this videoconference. (The video, which is approximately 80 minutes long and teacher’s guide will be provided upon registration.)
Many of the scenes in the movie are graphic, so we recommend this program for students in grades 9-12 only.
More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Genocide-Todays-World-Darfur-0
Celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday with The Goodwin Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Date: Friday February 28, 2014
Times: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM and 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST
Target Audience: Students in Grades 3-5
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
Now, the Star-Bell Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.
Those stars weren’t so big. They were really so small.
You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all...
Dr. Paul Winkler, the Executive Director of the NJ Commission of Holocaust Education will be reading the book “Sneetches” and leading a conversation on tolerance and understanding. Teaching suggestions for use after this videoconference can be found in The
New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education: Caring Makes a Difference K-4th Grade Curriculum Guide. (If you do not have this available in your school, please let us know.)
More Information/Registration:http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Happy-Birthday-Dr-Seuss
The
St. Louis and its Voyage of the Damned
Date: Wednesday March 19, 2014
Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
Target Audience: Students in Grades 7-12
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba. On the voyage were 938 passengers, almost all were Jews fleeing from the Third Reich. Meet a survivor
of this historic voyage and learn how the world let down these people, desperate for safety.
More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/MS-St-Louis-and-its-Voyage-Damned-0
Meet
a Holocaust Survivor and the Child of a Survivor
Date: Tuesday March 25, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Target Audience: Students in Grades 6-12
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
Have your students join in a conversation with these eyewitnesses to history and get the insight of those whose lives have been changed forever because of the Holocaust, as well as students from 4 other schools.
More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Meet-Holocaust-Survivor-and-Child-Survivor
Understanding Religions
Date: Tuesday April 8, 2014
Time: 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM EDT
Target Audience: Students in Grades 7-12
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
When we teach about the Holocaust, we ask students to be tolerant of people with backgrounds different than their own. We give them the opportunity to learn about some of those differences as they join in conversation with students from 4 other schools
and leaders from local Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim communities.
More Information/Registration:http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Understanding-Religions
Commemorate Yom Hashoah
(Holocaust Memorial Day) with The Goodwin Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Date: Monday April 28, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Target Audience: Students in Grades 6-12
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
Have your students join in conversation with Holocaust survivors and students from 4 other schools. The focus of this video conference will be Righteous Rescuers and the lives that they saved, as told by Holocaust survivors whose lives were saved because
of the bravery of honorable “Upstanders.”
More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/CommemorateYomHashoah
Regional Conference on the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights with Sterling High School in Somerdale, NJ and The Goodwin Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Date: Tuesday May 6, 2014
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM EDT
Target Audience: Students in Grades 7-12
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
Join in this all day conference on the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights as speakers and students discuss the history of the past, current human rights violations, and ideas to get students involved in today’s problems. Teacher’s guides and other preparatory
materials will be made available upon registration. Pre-conference work will be required.
More Information/Registration: http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Regional-Conference-Holocaust-Genocide-and-Human-Rights
Night
by Elie Wiesel: A Book Talk
Date: Tuesday May 20, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Target Audience: Students in Grades 7-12
Cost: Free! for MAGPI and NJEDge.Net Members
($75 for non-members)
Requirements for Participation: Open to any MAGPI member or non-MAGPI member institutions H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” ― Elie Wiesel from Night
Night, by Elie Wiesel, focuses on the final year of the Holocaust in Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp. Students will be given the opportunity to discuss and explore different aspects of the Holocaust, suffering
and human rights through a series of thought provoking questions, recorded interviews with Elie Wiesel, and photographs. This will be facilitated by a leader in Holocaust education. (Upon registration, a variety of materials will be provided for historical
context, suggested teaching strategies, and to stimulate classroom discussion.)
All students are required to have completed the reading of the novel, Night, in order to participate in this program.
More Information/Registration:http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Night-Elie-Wiesel-Book-Talk
Meet
a Concentration Camp Liberator and Honor Our Veterans
Virtual Tour
of the Goodwin Holocaust Museum and Education Center
