Graphing the Death Toll of the Holocaust
Standards (objectives):
o Students apply technology tools for communication, creativity, research, problem solving, and decision-making to enhance learning. Students use appropriate software applications to organize information into graphs, tables, diagrams and charts.
o Understand various meanings of addition and subtraction of whole numbers and the relationship between the two operations.
Purpose:
Through this lesson the students will receive a review on graphs. This lesson also involves problem solving and will require the student to use his/her processing skills. The lesson will also demonstrate to the student how useful graphs are, and that graphs can summarize.
Assignment:
The students will take the numbers listed below to place in a bar and pie graph to determine which group of people had the most deaths and the least deaths. The students will also add up all groups of people to find the averages of how many people died during the Holocaust.
Overview (The Holocaust):
The exact number of people killed by the Nazi regime will never be known, but scholars, using a variety of methods of determining the death toll, have generally agreed upon common ranges of the number of victims.
Use the numbers below to make your pie graph!
Number of People / Category3.5 million / Polish Jews
800,000 / Roma and Sinti
2,000 / Jehovah’s Witnesses
3.5 million / Slavic Civilians
6.0 million / Jews
2.4 million / Soviet POWs
390,000 / Serbs
300,000 / People with disabilities
100,000 / Communists
1.9 million / Gentile Poles
Assessment:
The teacher will have the students print out their graphs with their name on them and turn them in for a grade.