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The Bracelet: Five Senses
Young scholars investigate the 5 senses by reading children's literature. In this descriptive writing activity, students read the story The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida, analyzing the story and characters as they go. Young scholars...
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Denying Civil Rights
Young scholars continue their examination of the United States Constitution. Individually, they identify events in which the government has limited our civil rights and write an essay. In groups, they debate the issue and answer...
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World War II Alien Enemy Control Program
Students become familiar with the concepts of human rights and constitutional rights. They have an increased awareness of the historical record as to the cessation of these rights, especially in regards to children during WWII. It is...
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Then and Now: Tolerance as a Casualty of War
Students compare terrorist attacks on the US. In this lesson on tolerance and war, students use various resources and links to examine the concept of toleration during war. Students will focus on the attacks of Pear Harbor in 1941 and...
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Math: Heads or Tails
Seventh graders discover the difference between theoretical and experimental probabilities by designing their own problems and testing them. After conducting their own coin toss trial, they compare their results with an Internet...
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Defining Moments
Students determine key factors in lives of individuals studied. They compare the individuals' lives using a matrix and time line, compare and contrast the lives of two individuals involved in a single historic event, and create and...
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Focused Learning Lesson
Tenth graders analyze an issue discussing the rights of citizens. They debate after they have formed an opinion and argue the points and evaluate who had the stronger argument.
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Timely Tolerance
Eighth graders work together to focus on an oppressed group of society. Using the information they gather, they create a museum exhibit to educate their community on the group. They present their PowerPoint presentation to the class to...
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Life on the American Homefront
Seventh graders examine the conditions of the homefront during World War II. Using propaganda, they discuss its role and how it affected people who viewed it. They identify the role citizens played during the war and create their own...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps
This exhibition tells stories of everyday lives in Japanese Internment camps during World War II.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: The Tragedy of Japanese Internment
[Free Registration/Login Required] A glimpse into an embarrassing time in American history when Japanese American citizens became enemies in their own country. How were they treated? Where were they sent? How were their lives impacted?...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Japanese Internment
Discusses the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, an action that resulted from Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066. The constitutionality of the order was challenged all the way to the Supreme Court by Fred...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Confirming the Termination of Japanese Internment
A learning module that begins with the speech "Confirming the Termination of Japanese Internment" by President Gerald R. Ford, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
Calisphere: University of California Libraries
University of California: Calisphere: Wwii 1939 45: Japanese American Internment
Original photos, art work and primary source documents portray life inside a Japanese internment camp in the United States during World War II.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Japanese Internment
[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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Japanese Internment
Unfounded fears that Japanese American citizens might sabotage the war effort led Franklin Delano Roosevelt to order that all Americans of Japanese descent be forced into internment camps.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Picturing Japanese American Internment: Dorothea Lange
This media gallery explores the government-issued Japanese American internment that occurred during World War II using two videos from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. Dorothea Lange, a documentary...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Japanese American Internment in World War Ii
This collection uses primary sources to explore Japanese American internment during World War II.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Japanese Internment
Learn how various environmental and cultural changes impacted the treatment of Japanese Americans in Utah.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Life in Japanese American Internment Camp
Information about life in an internment camp. Includes related activities and links to books and other websites on Japanese American internment.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Impounded: Dorothea Lange's Photographs of Japanese Internment
View Dorothea Lange's pictures of the Japanese Interment. View children getting an education, fathers with their sons, and many more great pictures.
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Japanese American National Museum: Dear Miss. Breed: Letters From Camp
Peruse this collection of letters, recordings, and home movies of several Japanese Americans from their internment following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Constitution on Trial: Internment of Japanese in Wwii
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...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Japanese American Internment
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, fear of Japanese-Americans irrationally increased, resulting in Roosevelt's executive order that created internment camps for American citizens. Read about the camps, the life in the camps, and...
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