Grade Range: K-4Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, WorksheetsDuration: 20 MinutesDate Posted: 4/19/2012
In this activity, children will examine pictures of a Congressional Gold Medal for Japanese American soldiers, investigate the symbols on both sides, and design their own medal for kids who lived in the camps. Part of an OurStory module from entitled Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp, this activity includes images of the Congressional Gold Medal, discussion prompts, and background information. OurStory is designed to help children and adults explore history together through the use of children's literature, museum collections, and hands-on activities.
Guided design, Multiple activities, Museum education, Visual instruction, Observation
The individual identified in Japanese characters, here is, Michibiku Ozamoto, or, in Englis...
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Told by a Japanese American boy, this story shows how baseball made life in the internment camps ...
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