Make a Difference: The Miller Family Youth Exhibition

Make a Difference: The Miller Family Youth Exhibition is designed for museum visitors aged 8-11. Our aim is to provide a safe space for young visitors to discuss various themes centered on the tenets of character education. Visitors of all ages and learning levels are encouraged to think about different ways they can become more actively involved in their local and global communities. Our goal is to show the power of one voice in taking a stand for positive change.

The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center aims to encourage visitors of all ages to examine the ethical and critical questions resulting from a study of the Holocaust and genocide; the Youth Exhibition space seeks specifically to provide strategies to assist the younger visitor investigate how to be responsible citizens. The Exhibition will also help visitors explore what it takes to care for themselves and others and to speak up for those being bullied or treated unfairly.

Visitors, whether younger children or teenagers, will exit the experience ready to act on the core values of respect, care, justice, civic virtue and citizenship.  The Youth Exhibition will assist general museum visitors in making connections to what they saw and experienced in the Karkomi Permanent Exhibition, the Legacy of Absence Gallery and other areas of the museum. 

Themes EXPLORED IN MAKE A DIFFERENCE: THE MILLER FAMILY Youth Exhibition

• Fairness and respect
• Identity
• Diversity
• Taking a stand against bullying
• Speaking out against racism, intolerance, and discrimination
• Social responsibility
• Civic responsibility

 

ANTICIPATED LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Visitors will be able to identify who they are as individuals and their responsibilities and relationships toward others.
• Visitors will have the strategies and tools necessary to not only identify a problem, but be able to identify and overcome the obstacles necessary to solve that problem.
• Middle and high school students and adults will draw connections between the lessons and themes of the Miller Family Youth Exhibition to the lessons and themes of a study of the Holocaust and genocide, identified in the Karkomi Permanent Exhibition and the Legacy of Absence Galleries.
• Student visitors will be prepared to meet and exceed Illinois Educational Standards and Social Emotional Learning standards at grade appropriate levels.

To book a field trip in the Youth Exhibition, please visit our Field Trips page.