Japanese Internment Camps

• Social Studies
• 6th Grade

Visit untold stories of Japanese Internment Camps

Let's Review: Pearl Harbor

Goal: Understand that Japanese internment camps existed during WWII 

01:16

Have you ever heard of Japanese interment camps before?

Yes

No

02:40

What is one new thing you learned?

Internment/ internación

being confined as a prisoner

This is a newspaper article from 1942.

Why would the government use the word "interment" instead of imprisonment or prison camps?

If you lived in this time period, how would this effect you, your family or your friends?

What connections can you make to this article and other parts of the war or other times in history. 

Reflect on this padlet (teachers make a copy please!)