We have started reading Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel about his experience at concentration camps during The Holocaust. This summer, as I was researching and looking for lesson ideas, I ran across information about The Butterfly Project. You can read more about it here:
www.hmh.org/ed_butterfly1.shtml
Today I hung up the last of the butterflies, and tomorrow we will start taking them down as I reveal whether or not certain children in Terezin survived. When I am finished, only 10% of the butterflies will remain as only 10% of the children sent to Terezin survived. In this age of technology, I hope this simple paper craft, and the stories of the children these butterflies represent, will have a bigger impact on them than any fancy webquest or video I could give them. It is so important that we learn from history so that the cycle can be broken.
www.hmh.org/ed_butterfly1.shtml
Today I hung up the last of the butterflies, and tomorrow we will start taking them down as I reveal whether or not certain children in Terezin survived. When I am finished, only 10% of the butterflies will remain as only 10% of the children sent to Terezin survived. In this age of technology, I hope this simple paper craft, and the stories of the children these butterflies represent, will have a bigger impact on them than any fancy webquest or video I could give them. It is so important that we learn from history so that the cycle can be broken.
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