"Katyńska Crime" - educational portfolio for teachers
date:30 March 2020 Editor: Editorial
Teka consists of 3 parts: materials for teacher, materials for student and cards. The full CD is included.

Teachers and students will find historical sources and teaching materials on the latest past of Poland (1939–1989) in the "IPN educational technology". They are the answer to the teachers' requests for teaching aids enabling students to bring together all the most hard and controversial topics in Poland's past during this period.
IPN educational portfolios are not available for sale. They are provided free of charge to teachers and representatives of another educational institutions participating in around-packaged methodological courses organised by the IPN. For courses, delight contact the National Education Office in Warsaw or the applicable Territorially Branch Office of National Education.
The subject of the Katyn crime is an crucial component not only of historical education, but besides of patriotic education. Although 25 years have passed since independence, there is inactive a disparity between the large amount of educational material about the German business and the crimes of the 3rd Reich and the number of material concerning the russian occupation. The state of affairs described here and Russia's attempts to relativise genocide, as well as the 70th anniversary of the murder, imposed on the Institute of National Memory the work to commemorate this tragedy and enrich material and educational assistance concerning it.
The authors intended to supply teachers and students with a wide scope of origin and iconographic materials and technological assistance. For example, there was a deficiency of adequate information about Katyn lies in publications published so far. The authors tried to fill this gap by posting proofs of the conflict for memory and truth. Material, developed according to a fresh programming basis for past teaching. Teka is to service as an aid in teaching past and teaching cognition about Polish society and language. On the basis of this, the teacher will besides be able to prepare an educational lesson devoted to the Katyn anniversary.
Teka consists of 3 parts: materials for teacher, materials for student and cards. The full CD is included. The materials for the teacher include 4 examples of lessons on the Katyn crime, source-based exercises, educational expeditions to Katyn cemeteries, essays and bibliography. The first 2 scenarios are mainly designed to prepare past lessons, the 3rd – past lessons and cognition of society, the 4th – Polish language lessons.
Scheduled scripts of lessons and exercises will let you to grow your copyright. Various sources and iconographic materials can be utilized freely – for example in the form of multimedia presentations. Teachers can so spend more time discussing it, for example, combining an educational lesson with a past lesson on the occasion of the anniversary of September 17 or the execution in Katyn or in connection with All Saints' Day.
FLIPS TO BE TAKEN BY:
https://ipn.gov.pl/en/publications/teki-educational/27577,Zbrodnia-Katynska.html
Teacher materials (pdf, 1.01 MB)
Student materials (pdf, 849.56 KB)
Cards (pdf, 14.87 MB)
Maps (pdf, 618.13 KB)