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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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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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PPT
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Impounded: Dorothea Lange's Photographs of Japanese Internment

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Website
Other

Japanese American National Museum: Dear Miss. Breed: Letters From Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
Peruse this collection of letters, recordings, and home movies of several Japanese Americans from their internment following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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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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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Japanese American Internment

For Students 5th - 8th
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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Primary
Other

Colorado State Archives: The Granada Japanese Internment Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive collection of records that give information about the Japanese Interment Camp at Granada, Colorado is provided here. These include documents, photographs, speeches, letters, and publications.
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: Japanese Internment

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover why in 1942 the Japanese Americans living in California were moved away from the coast and its vital military installations and put into relocation camps.
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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Japanese American Internment

For Teachers 8th
A comprehensive learning module on the WWII internment of Japanese Americans that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and primary source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students learn...
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Primary
Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Granada Relocation Center

For Students 9th - 10th
A great primary source document (1943) from the War Relocation Authority describing the Japanese internment camp located at Amache, Colorado. Details are provided on the camp, conditions of the Japanese Americans, how they governed...
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Website
Other

Children of the Camps: Internment History

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the history of people of Japanese ancestry who were confined to internment camps during World War II. There is a timeline of events and links to original documents.
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Website
Utah Education Network

Uen: Themepark: Liberty: Japanese American Internment

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a large collection of internet resources organized around Japanese-American internment. Links to places to go, people to see, things to do, teacher resources, and bibliographies.
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The Atlantic Monthly Group

In Focus: World War Ii: Intermnent of Japanese Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Haunting photographs of Japanese-Americans as they were rounded up and placed in internment camps in the western United States not long after Pearl Harbor. The photographs all have captions which add context to the pictures as well as...
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Unit Plan
Digital History

Digital History: Explorations: Japanese American Internment

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive interactive learning module explores Japanese-American Internment during World War II and includes links to primary source documents, photographs, personal accounts, and numerous other outside resources.
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Article
Other

The History Teacher: Incarceration of the Japanese Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
A historical article in which a well known historian argues that given today's current political climate, what happened to the Japanese Americans in World War 2 could happen again.
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Other

Japanese American National Museum: Henry Sugimoto Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Henry Sugimoto (1900-1990) was a Japanese American artist. Many of his paintings depict life during World War II in the Jerome and Rohwer Japanese internment camps in Arkansas and in the Fresno centre in California.
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Website
Other

Historical Soc. Of Penn: Japanese American Experience

For Students 9th - 10th
The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies has a site devoted to the history of the Japanese American, the continuing traditions, the legacy of internment and more.
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Manzanar National Historic Site

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual tour of the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar. Presents the camp as it exists today and provides a map of where different facilities were located.
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Website
University of Washington

Uw Libraries: Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an in-depth look at the plight of Japanese Americans during World War II who were forced into American style concentration, or internment, camps to wait out the war.
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Lesson Plan
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 instructional activity are designed to provide a window into the war years. Using primary sources,...
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Graphic
Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Photographs of Japanese American Internment at Manzanar

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides vivid photographs taken by Ansel Adams at the Manzanar Relocation Camp for Japanese-Americans.
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Primary
University of Washington

Wcca Operations Manual: Interior Security Regulations for Internment Centers

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a list of rules that Japanese internees were forced to comply with while detained during World War II at Camp Harmony.
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Handout
University of Washington

University of Washington Libraries: Japanese Canadian Internment

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise account of the evacuation of Japanese Canadians from Canada's West Coast. Of particular interest is a poster directed at all Japanese people.
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Primary
Scholastic

Scholastic: World War Ii: American Home Front: Japanese Americans

For Students 3rd - 8th
Norman Mineta, a Japanese American, gives a detailed account of his experiences living in an internment camp during World War II. There are many links to additional information such as pictures and letters.

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