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Curated OER

Leave What You Find

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore environmental awareness by participating in a role play activity. In this cultural analysis lesson plan, students discuss the importance of symbolism when referring to a tribe and create their own tribe based on a small...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Life in Japanese American Internment Camp

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Information about life in an internment camp. Includes related activities and links to books and other websites on Japanese American internment.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Constitution on Trial: Internment of Japanese in Wwii

For Teachers 11th
In this lesson, 11th graders look at what happened to the Japanese who were living in the United States during World War II and examine their experiences of internment. They will also consider the constitutionality of removing some civil...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Camp Wild' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In Camp Wild by Canadian author Pam Withers, fourteen-year-old Wilf runs away from a summer camp and sets out on his own in a canoe. Two other boys follow him and together they must battle a raging river. This teacher's guide includes a...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Japanese American Internment

For Teachers 5th - 8th
What was the World War II experience like for the thousands of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast? The activities in this lesson plan are designed to provide a window into the war years. Using primary sources, students will...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Camping Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this instructional activity, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this instructional activity. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Destruction and Rebirth at Bergen Belsen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bergen Belsen was a concentration camp which became a displaced person camp after liberation. By studying this camp, we can trace the path Jewish survivors took from prisoners to generating a new life. Students will come to understand...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Japanese Internment

For Teachers 4th
Learn how various environmental and cultural changes impacted the treatment of Japanese Americans in Utah.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Camp Paws and Claws: Pets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This multi-day series of lessons will engage students in reading and listenting comprehension strategies related to books about animals. Students will retell, dramatize, and illustrate their new animal knowledge.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Japanese Internment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson delving into the reasoning behind interning the Japanese-Americans following the Pearl Harbor attack. Students will explore primary source documents to draw their conclusions.
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PBS

Pbs: Independent Lens: Conscience and the Constitution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Would you accept being drafted into military service if your family was being held in an internment camp? That was the question on many a Japanese American's mind during World War 2. Explore the stories of those who resisted service and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Camp Add 'Em Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
When you go to camp, you expect to have a great time and learn a lot. The Camp Add 'Em Up lesson series is designed to guide a first grade student through development of addition and subtraction strategies through patterning. This lesson...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Camp Add 'Em Up Iii

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Camp Add 'Em Up is a series of lessons for first grade learners. Students will use prior knowledge of friendly numbers (two number combinations that make a "10") and "adding on" as they master the ability to add three numbers. In this...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Camp Add "Em Up Ii

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
At Camp Add 'Em Up it's time to or "2" find patterns in the environment. Students will work in pairs as they build understanding of how to count by 2's. Students will use digital cameras to capture "2's" in their classroom (2 shoes, 2...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Camp Paws and Claws & Farm Animals

For Teachers K
Students will visit centers about farm animals. The tradebooks Mrs. Wishy Washy, The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, and Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type will be featured at the centers. Students will record their observations in...
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Other

National Council for the Social Studies: Fear, Panic, and Injustice

For Teachers 4th - 6th
What did it feel like to have to leave your home and possessions to live in a camp during WWII because you were a Japanese-American? Students will understand the climate of fear during this time and develop empathy toward the families...
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Stanford University

Sheg:document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: New Deal and World War Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An inclusive unit on the New Deal and World War II with lessons about Social Security, the Zoot Suit Riots, the Dust Bowl, Mexican migration in the 1930s, the atomic bomb, Japanese internment, and the...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Despite It All, I Am Alive

For Students 9th - 10th
Liberation was met with excitement, but also sadness and anxiety. Many people had no home or loved ones to return to. This easily navigable slideshow chronicles life after liberation, loneliness, DP camps, and new homes using photographs...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Learning and Remembering About Auschwitz Birkenau

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Teaching about the horrors that occurred at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp can be tough. This resource walks you through a activity that includes background information, discussion questions, and primary sources. Students will...
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Ohio State University

Osu History Teaching Institute: The Holocaust

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This lesson plan places a human face on the Holocaust, by focusing on survivors' testimony, letters and journals from survivors and those who were killed, and poetry.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Can We Measure the Wavelength of Light Emitted From Stars?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed for students to apply their knowledge of mathematics and physics to "real life" situations. Students are presented with the situation that they are on a camping trip and wish to know the wavelength emitted by a...
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iCivics

I Civics: Korematsu v. United States (1944)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This mini-instructional activity covers the basics of the Supreme Court's decision that determined the government acted constitutionally when it detained people of Japanese ancestry inside internment camps during World War II. Students...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the world of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston through this informative site. Students and teachers will benefit from the featured lesson plans for "Farewell to Manzanar."
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Inst.: Japanese Americans and Constitutional Guarantees

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan that explores the history of the treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and a discussion of some of the resulting Supreme Court cases.

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