Planning Your Visit

We encourage educators to bring students in grades 4-12 to see the exhibition in person or online. Visiting can be an especially meaningful experience for students when done as part of a history, civics, or ethnic studies class, or as part of an effort to deepen students’ experience with AAPI histories.

We offer activities and resources that are designed to prepare students to engage deeply with the exhibition’s contents and respond to what they learned and felt after their visit. Because students across this wide range of grade levels will require different types and levels of scaffolding and support for their exhibition experience, we expect that teachers will select, adapt, and modify these materials as necessary.

Before Touring

While Touring

After Touring

Sample Teaching Plan

Student Learning Outcomes

Regardless of age and grade level, the exhibition and accompanying classroom materials aim to provide students with a meaningful experience so they may:

Examine the history of Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and see its connections to other past and present violations of civil rights.
Develop empathy for those who experienced this history and those experiencing similar injustices today.
Reflect on their power and responsibility to stand up for fairness, justice, and the humane treatment of all people in our country today.