Abstract:
In the eduction world today, all teaching lessons, field trips, and activities must be tied closely to the academic state standards to which schools are held accountable for meeting. These measures are in place to help students achieve on the numerous standardized tests that are now a federal requirement under the No Child Left Behind Act. In this thesis, we developed an integrated unit plan which includes plan for Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, Health, and Language Arts (English component and Literature) to teach fourth grades about the Holocaust. This topic was chosen because of its importance and lack of integrated unit development. We created a three week unit plan that correlates directly to the Indiana Academic standards for fourth grade which should be conducted towards the end of the year. At the beginning of the unit, students will use a KWL chart to help activate prior knowledge about the Holocaust. At the end of the unit, the students will finish the KWL chart and visit a museum from the list of different museums from around the country for the students to visit.
