Using the knowledge that approximately 6,000,000 Jewish people died during the holocaust, each student will place dots on unlined paper, after stressing the idea that each dot represents one Jewish person who died.  A hall-long, black walled bulletin board with aluminum foil to create a barbed wire effect along the top will be the back-drop for each child to place their papers.  Each student will keep the number of dots they have created on a chart so that by the end of the unit all student dots can be tallied to give a visual and concrete picture of exactly how many 6,000,000 is and to memorialize the dead.

Students hang their dot filled papers over the windows, having run out of space on black back-drop.

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       If you look closely, you can see some of the dots.  They are small.