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Ma’ayanot Students Follow the Signs of History

Almost all streets in Israel are named for famous Jewish Zionist leaders, dates or events, and in this Ms. Sarah Gordon saw an opportunity to reinforce, in a creative way, key elements of Zionist history for students in her modern jewish history class. For an exercise she titled “Israel Street Sign Challenge,” Ms. Gordon asked each student in the class to research the historical background and significance of the person/event for whom her street is named (e.g., Chaim Weizmann, Balfour, Pinsker and Ha-Lamed Hey). Using this research, students created one minute YouTube videos to explain the history behind their names. Street signs, each with a QR code linked to a corresponding YouTube video, were posted throughout Ma’ayanot, and on Yom Ha’atzmaut students in other classes were invited to work in groups to find the street signs and listen to the videos. This history lesson culminated with a Zionist trivia (Kahoot) game that tested students on the material learned on the scavenger hunt.

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