World War II Camps

Description

Group presentations based on research using provided primary and secondary sources.

Rationale (why are you doing this?)

Students are exposed to several types of camps during lessons on World War II. This lesson will help them understand the similarities and differences between these types of camps.

Lesson Objectives - the student will

Compare and contrast various types of camps in World War II.
Deliver an oral presentation summarizing life in the World War II camps.

District, state, or national performance and knowledge standards/goals/skills met

CLE 3a—X (State Standards) Examine the wars of the twentieth-century pertinent to US history including: causes, comparisons, consequences and peace efforts.

NCSS II d. (National Standards) Identify and use various sources for reconstructing the past, such as documents, letters, diaries, maps, textbooks, photos, and others.

Secondary materials (book, article, video documentary, etc.) needed

Displaced Persons Camps—Secondary Source

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005462

Death Camps—Secondary Source:

http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007714

Concentration Camps—Secondary Source **See related articles, too.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005263

Japanese-American Internment Camps—Secondary Source

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation

Prisoner of War Camps WWII—Secondary Source

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/prisoners-of-war-in-ww2/prisoners-of-war/

Primary sources needed (document, photograph, artifact, diary or letter, audio or visual recording, etc.) needed

Death Camps—Primary Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72EHKDgL2Rc

Concentration Camps—Primary Source

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Gunskirchen.html

Japanese-American Internment Camps—Primary Source
http://people.uwec.edu/ivogeler/w188/life.htm

Prisoner of War Camps WWII (Philippines)—Primary Source

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/sfeature/bataan_prison.html

Displaced Persons Camp—Primary Source

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?MediaId=2791

Technology Required

Internet

Fully describe the activity or assignment in detail. What will both the teacher and the students do?

The teacher will divide the class into 5 groups. Each group will be responsible for researching and giving a powerpoint presentation on one of the World War II camps. Assign each group one of the five types of camps:

1.) Concentration Camps,
2.) Death Camps,
3.) POW Camps,
4.) Japanese-American Internment Camps,
5.) Displaced Persons Camps.

The students should read the primary and secondary sources provided above for their assigned camp as well as locate additional information and/or images that may be necessary to complete the assignment.

The students should use the information they have read to prepare a powerpoint presentation. This presentation should answer the following essential questions as well as include at least three relevant images.

Essential Questions:

1.) What types of people were placed in these camps?

2.) Why were they placed in these camps?

3.) What were conditions like in these camps?

4.) What would have to happen in order for the prisoners to be liberated from these camps?

5.) What would those in the camps do to mentally and physically survive? (Be specific.)

After the presentations, all students should choose two of the camps to compare and contrast. (They cannot use the type of camp that they were assigned.) They should use a Venn Diagram to compare/contrast using the guidelines in the scoring guide.

Assessment: fully explain the assessment method in detail or create and attach a scoring guide

Content	Question1	Question2	Question3	Question4	Question5
3: Question completely answered using information (textual or inferential) from the assigned sources
2: Question completely answered but lacks references to the assigned sources
1: Question partially answered with or without references to the assigned sources.
0: Lacking info

Presentation

3	2	1	0
Presentation is clear to read and free from distracting grammar or spelling errors	Presentation is clear to read but may contain distracting grammar or spelling errors	Presentation may be difficult to read and/or contains several distracting grammar or spelling errors	Presentation is extremely difficult to read and contains many distracting grammar or spelling errors
Presentation was always easy to hear and understand	Presentation was usually easy to hear and understand	Presentation was sometimes easy to hear and understand	Presentation was never easy to hear and understand
Presentation contained at least 3 relevant images	Presentation contained at least 2 relevant images	Presentation contained at least 1 relevant image	Presentation contained no relevant images

Venn Diagram

Diagram Labeled	Yes—1		No--0
Differences listed in same order (congruent)	Always—2	Sometimes—1	Never--0
Similarities/Differences	6:Solid Content 6 or more items	3: Content Weak and/or only 3-5 items	1:Content Lacking and/or only 1-2 items

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