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Japanese-American Internment--Constitutional or Unconstitutional Lesson Plan

Japanese-American Internment--Constitutional or Unconstitutional Lesson Plan

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Japanese-American Internment--Constitutional or Unconstitutional

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Explore what the home front during WWII was like for Japanese-Americans. Learners use a worksheet and the Internet to guide their research as they consider the constitutionality of Japanese Internment. They work in pairs to create an informative PowerPoint presentation.

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multimedia presentations, multimedia, Research, the internet, constitutional rights, the united states constitution, constitutional amendments

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internet research, constitutional rights, multimedia presentations, japanese-american internment, wwii home front, social studies

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11th

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Social Studies & History

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