Student Outcomes for Japanese Internment: Life Behind Barbed Wire
Content Outcomes:
Knowledge: Identify and state information relative to the conditions and circumstances of Japanese Americans living in internment camps from 1942 to 1945. Comprehension: Be able to describe, explain, and relate information regarding their research on the relocation camps and provide a basic summary through the presentation of their products. Application: Report finished products to classmates as well as demonstrate their knowledge by being prepared to explain why their artifacts in the product were relevant in addition to demonstrating that they understand and can illustrate the different information represented by each artifact. Analysis: Organize information and distinguish what is important or essential for the final presentation of their respective products as well as categorizing and organizing the different information into a product form. Synthesis: Create, design, and produce a shoebox suitcase that will contain different artifacts that they would have carried with them to an internment camp if they had been Japanese American students in addition to imagining what a typical day would look like in the camp and composing a summary of what their life would have looked like from day to day.
Process Outcomes:
Content: 1. Students will use appropriate resources to discover facts and information about the internment camps that existed from 1942 to 1945 in the western United States. 2. Students will draw conclusions based on their research about what life would have been like if they were living in a Japanese internment camp. Problem-Solving: 3. Students will consider all relevant information in creating the final product (solution) for the PBL problem. 4. Students will create a solution to the problem that is based on factual information from their research, research stemmed from their hypotheses. Thinking and Reasoning: 5. Students will draw valid conclusions about what life would have been like for a Japanese American living in this time and what personal items would have been of importance to them. Self Directed Learning: 6. Students will be responsible for their personal research and selection of appropriate items to be contained within the problems solution, the shoebox suitcase. 7. Students will be responsible for creating their own products based on information gleaned from individual research.
