This web site offers a chance in a life time. You can take your students on a virtual tour of Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam. This is a great follow up to reading the book The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank. This book is a first person account of the trials and tribulations of the Jewish community during the Nazi invasion in Holland. This virtual tour puts the written details of where Anne Frank spent many of her days hiding into reality. Students can see all of the hiding spots the Frank family had to run to when Nazi's were going door to door during World War II. You can see where Anne wrote her accounts of her adolescence, trials, and tribulations of the hatred towards the Jewish heritage.
The virtual tour of Anne Frank's house is a great way to bring the details to life. The virtual tour could be used as a key element within a larger unit on World War II. This activity could be a part of a social studies, history, English, or writing course for middle school aged students. This virtual tour can be used as a resource within units on diversity, tolerance, and human rights.
There is no registration required to take the virtual tour of Anne Frank's house. The only technology that is needed to take this tour are computers and an Internet connection. Distance learning is incorporated in this virtual tour because students are able to see where Anne Frank lived in Amsterdam. So the students are able to travel across the world without having to leave their classroom. The students get to see where her and her family had to hide and where she wrote her memoirs.
