[WSCSS] Free CBA units from Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project

[Tom Ikeda]

Densho is offering a new curriculum unit for high school history classes on
the conflicts arising from immigration. With a grant from the Washington
Civil Liberties Public Education Program, Densho produced the three-week
unit "Causes of Conflict: Issues of Immigration," a classroom based
assessment (CBA) for Washington State social studies. The lesson asks the
essential question "How do conflicts over immigration arise from labor needs
and social change?" Using primary sources from the Densho Digital Archive
and other resources, the student activities examine the history of Mexican
and Japanese immigration and the related questions of labor rights and legal
equity.

In addition to the new immigration unit, Densho also has available two other
popular 3 week CBA units:

Constitutional Issues: Civil Liberties, Individuals and the Common Good 
Dig Deep: Media and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War
II 

Teachers may order the free curriculum (includes the 3 CBA units) on a
Teacher Resource CD by making an email request to info at densho.org.  Please
limit CD requests to 10 or less discs.

Or the curriculum can be downloaded from the Densho website at: 
http://www.densho.org/learning/default.asp?path=civilliberties/CivilLibertie
s.asp


Tom Ikeda
Executive Director
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
www.densho.org

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