In this Webquest, students learn about the desert in Tanakh, its role in biblical history and what it was like to live and wander in the desert for forty years.
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Parshat Shemot: Why Moshe?
Through text study, students analyze why Moshe was chosen to lead the Jewish people.
Times Are Changing?
This webquest helps to analyze the time period leading up to the Haskalah Movement and grants a better understanding of the issues facing the Jewish People at that time in their shtetls. Click here.
Sefer Yonah: Lessons in Mercy – Part 3
*Updated for 2024 with new questions, content, and assessments at the end of this page. Students discover why the argument between God and Yonah is relevant to Yom Kippur.
Sefer Yonah: Lessons in Mercy – Part 2
*Updated for 2024 with new questions, content, and assessments at the end of Part 3. Students finish reading Sefer Yonah and learn why Yonah was so uncomfortable carrying out God's mission.
Sefer Yonah: Lessons in Mercy – Part 1
*Updated for 2024 with new questions, content, and assessments at the end of Part 3. In this lesson, students read chapter one of Sefer Yonah and are introduced to the conflict between Yonah and God.
Sukkot: The Land of Israel and Rain
Shavuot: The Shnei Luchot HaBrit
Megillat Esther: Repairing Sha’ul’s Mistake
Students trace back Mordechai's and Haman's ancestry and see that the battle of Megillat Esther mirrors the battle fought by their ancestors. Students learn how to use a concordance.
Haggadah Shel Pesach: The Fifth Son
Students delve into their Jewish identity and their relationship to the land of Israel through the study of the Haggadah.