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Curriculum Materials

curriculum materials includes:

Lesson Plans & Teacher Guides
 
Teachers attend curriculum workshop.
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Minidoka National Historic Site teamed up with CSI and Densho at the Southern Idaho Civil Liberties Symposium to unveil the newly developed Minidoka curriculum.
 

Minidoka National Historic Site teamed up with Densho, the Japanese American Legacy Project, to develop a curriculum aimed at helping teachers to learn about and teach about this difficult subject matter. It is also geared to help connect current events to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.  

 

The units are designed to closely align with Idaho state standards in social studies and language arts, specifically in geography, U.S. history, and writing.
Minidoka Barracks  

Did You Know?
Minidoka Relocation Center was a 33,000-acre site with more than 600 buildings. It was in operation from August 1942 until October 1945.

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Last Updated: July 11, 2009 at 13:12 EST