LESSON PLAN

The Military Intelligence Service

This lesson is about DIVERSITY.

Specifically, this lesson is about the "strength through diversity" of the United States Army during World War II that resulted from the Army's use of a group of segregated Japanese American soldiers.

The Military Intelligence Service was a top secret unit made up of Japanese American men whose Japanese language abilities "shortened the Pacific War by two years and saved possibly a million American lives."*

This lesson was developed using grounded cognitive and constructivist learning theories and incorporates the following learning principles and methodologies:

• Active learning
• Collaboration and cooperation
• Contextual learning
• Building upon pre-existing knowledge
• Multimodal learning
• Project-based learning

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