Resource Roundup: May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month

Since 1977, May has been the month to celebrate the heritage of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). It is especially timely to celebrate AAPI Heritage and contributions to our collective history and culture during this time of increased turbulence and anti-Asian violence. #STOPAAPIHATE

Asian Americans Series on PBS

This PBS film series shows "the history of identity, contributions, and challenges experienced by Asian Americans." Although the series is five hours long there is a lot of awesome information that would be awesome when shared as clips. 

Asian American Advancing Justice's K-12 Curriculum

Although labeled as a K-12 curriculum, only the grouped Episodes 1-5 Elementary Education contains informative lessons for grades 1-6. Otherwise, the separated Episodes 1-5 contain lessons for grades 6-12. There are videos, lesson plans, vocabulary, and student activities for each lesson that contain some great historical information about the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience in the USA.

Social Justice Books: Asian Americans 

Numerous books from Early Childhood through Young Adult levels to help teach/learn about Asian American Heritage. 

Anti-Defamation League's Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month Resources

AAPI Heritage Month lesson plans, children's books, and educational resources from the ADL. 

Discovery Education's Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Channel

Discovery Education provides a wealth of full videos, video segments, images, lesson starters, SOS lessons, and other resources to help you celebrate AAPI Heritage Month. You can use these resources in DE Studio to create personalized content for your class. Let us know if you would like assistance with this. Note: log in to Discovery Education with Google using your district email address. 

The Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center

The Smithsonian has included anti-racist information as well as AAPI activities, videos, resources, and content to complement social studies/history units (including interviews, biographies, and learning labs). 

Pear Deck's #StopAsianHate Teaching Resources

Pear Deck resources including templates for discussing hard topics and middle and high school resources addressing recent Asian American discrimination.

Learning for Justice's Addressing Anti-Asian Bias

Resources to address anti-Asian bias specifically regarding the coronavirus. 

Educate to Empower's #STOPAAPIHATE Resources

This is Educate to Empower's Linktree that has many great resources including a #STOPAAPIHATE Educator's Guide, AAPI history resources, video and podcast links, and other resources. I really like the project-based Finding the Story in History unit as it supports student voice and focuses on community interviews. The My Part of the Story: Exploring Identity in the United States lesson is also really amazing. 

Dr. Noreen Naseem Rodriguez's Asian American History Curriculum

Curated resources including lessons to help bring Asian history into the classroom. Dr. Naseem Rodriguez also includes a list of recommended Asian American children's literature books. 

Zinn Education Project's Asian Americans in the People's History of the United States

Explore over 20 Asian Americans who are of note as a launchpad for further learning and exploration.

A Different Asian American Timeline 

This timeline centers the Asian American experience within the broader context of American culture, politics, and capitalism rather than as isolated incidents. 

Share My Lesson's Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage

General AAPI resources are available as well as AAPI Heritage activities by grade level (elementary, middle & high school).

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month's Teacher Resources

View the exhibits and collections, watch/listen to the audio and video, and peruse the selected resources for teachers.  

U.S. Department of Education's 12 Ways to Enrich Kids' Appreciation of Asian-Pacific American Culture

The U.S. Department of Education offers a variety of cross-curricular activities to celebrate AAPI Heritage. 

Densho

Densho provides information, resources, digital archives, and a Learning Center about Japanese Internment during World War II.

The Orange Story

The Orange Story is an awesome four-chapter interactive experience that helps you learn about the experience of Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor including their imprisonment in internment camps. 

Center for Asian American Media's 20 Things to Watch & Listen to in Celebration of Asian American & Pacific Islanders

Here are 20 very interesting things to watch/listen to and learn about some awesome Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. Hope you enjoy it!

Do you have any incredible resources for AAPI Heritage Month that you are willing to share? If so, please share in the comments below. 

 Resource Roundup: Women's History Resources

Can You Guess Who It Is? Google Slides Template by SlidesMania

SlidesMania has two "Can You Guess Who It Is?" templates that would work great for younger scholars creating a collaborative Women's History Slides deck. Here is the pink version and here is the blue/green version.

Women's History Resources from BrainPOP

Women's History videos, activities, and quizzes you can assign in BrainPOP. YCSD teachers, please remember to sign in through Clever. 

25 Women's History Month Ideas for School

A list of 25 ideas for celebrating Women's History Month. Bulletin board ideas may not work for remote learning- but you could make an appropriate virtual background. 

Honor Women's History Month on Flipgrid

Women's History topics from the Discovery Library and Virtual Field Trip activities. Or you can have scholars use Flipgrid to report out on an individual or an event from women's history.

Out-of-This-World Women by Pear Deck 

Pear Deck has Elementary, Middle School, and High School Slides on women that influenced space exploration and include videos and interactive Pear Deck activities. 

Pear Deck Women's History Resources

Pear Deck has six decks about women of note including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cicely Tyson, Kamala Harris and others. 

Women's History Activities on Seesaw

Women's History activities from the Seesaw Community Activity Library. Or you can create your own Seesaw activity using other resources from this post. 

Discovery Education: Women in History

Discovery Education has curated this channel filled with videos and instructional activities about women in history. Videos/activities are divided by grade levels. 

National Women's History Museum Digital Classroom Resources

Digital classroom resources including videos, posters, infographics, lesson plans, timelines, quizzes, and primary sources for grades K-12+. There are more resources as grades increase, but the "Who do I admire?" lesson seems like it would adapt well to remote learning. 

Women's History Resources from the ADL

The Anti-Defamation League provides lesson plans on Women's History topics with an anti-bias emphasis. Lessons may need to be adjusted for remote learning. For example, the Mo'Ne Davis lesson has scholars sharing ideas with Post-it notes. Google Jamboard or a collaborative Google Slides deck would be a great substitution. If you would like help with tech substitutions, please reach out to the YCSD Technology Integration team- we would love to help.

Women's History Month Lessons from the Center for Civic Education

Lesson plans and resources about Women's History. Remote teaching will require some activities to be adapted to digital formats. Note: Even though there is a "Share to Google Classroom" button, it will only share the lesson plan. 

NEH EDSITEment's Women's History Resources

The National Endowment for the Humanities provides a Teacher's Guide with media resources, lesson plans, and student activities. Although the literary lesson plans seem to be geared towards high school, the student activities would adapt well to most grade levels. For example, creating a digital timeline of women in history or creating a film or presentation about a woman in history. Apple Clips would be great for this. 

ReadWriteThink Lessons on Women's History

ReadWriteThink has Women's History lesson plans for grades 3-12.

Women's History Month Resources from ScienceNetLink

Women's History Month resources with a scientific focus. Although there are some resources for K-5, there are many more for grades 6-12.

Women's History Teaching Materials from the Zinn Education Project

Women's History teaching materials and activities for grades 3-12 although they may need to be adapted for remote learning. 

Do you have any great Women's History resources? If so, please share in the comments below.

 Resource Roundup: Black History Month Resources

Google Arts & Culture Resources

Google Arts & Culture has a wealth of Black History resources including historical, video, and artistic resources to help teach about Black History.

Pear Deck Resources

Pear Deck has downloadable Pear Decks for Misty Copeland (ballerina), Amanda Gorman (poet laureate) as well as a pop culture & arts Pear Deck. There are also a variety of relevant Newsela Pear Decks available. 

Seesaw Resources

Seesaw shares 30 interactive Black History Month activities, but feel free to search the Seesaw Community Activity Library for more activities. I especially like this activity that has scholars create a video reaction to BHM read alouds (all read alouds have been unblocked). 

20 Resources from PBS

PBS curates 20 resources (most including lesson plans) that address subjects in Black History from the Civil Rights era to recent history.

33 Resources from We Are Teachers

We Are Teachers shares 33 resources for Black History Month activities. Granted not all will work for Remote Learning (door decorating), but I am loving the idea of a Living Museum using the Spotlight feature in Zoom. 

Science BHM Resources from ScienceNetLinks

Science lessons from ScienceNetLink that are interesting, but not most resources are geared towards 6th grade and beyond.

BHM Resources from Facing History and Ourselves

Teaching ideas, history video lessons, and webinar opportunities for teachers interested in teaching about Black History.

Celebrating Black History with Discovery Education

Discovery Education has many Black History resources, videos, activities and images. Just log in with your district Google account.

African American Experiences

Discovery Education has numerous video and activity resources relating to the African American experience as it relates to History, Culture, and Politics. Log in with your district Google account.

Do you have other resources for Black History Month? If so, please share them in the comments below.