For Teachers

Detail of A Group of Women in a Garden, Entertaining Themselves with Music and Dancing, unknown artist. National Museum of Asian Art.

Teacher's Guide: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in the U.S.

This Teacher's Guide offers a collection of lessons and resources for K-12 social studies, literature, and arts classrooms that center around the experiences, achievements, and perspectives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across U.S. history.

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

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Selected Resources

Chinese New Year Celebrations: Primary Sources Reflecting a Cultural Tradition Immigration—Primary Sources & Student iBook Japanese American Internment (ebook) Japanese American Internment: Fear Itself Japanese American Internment—Primary Sources & Student iBook Presentation—Japanese Immigration Presentation—Chinese Immigration

Asian American Pacific Islander Documents in DocsTeach The Chinese Exclusion Act and Related Primary Sources The Chinese Exclusion Act interactive book on iBooks and iTunes U course Chinese Exclusion Broadside Analysis The Chinese Village Exhibit at the 1899 Export Exposition Contextualizing a Photograph: On Exhibit at the "Chinese Village" Japanese American Incarceration During World War II Petition Against Annexation of Hawaii Primary sources and teaching activities on the Vietnam War Primary sources related to Chinese immigration to the United States Primary sources related to Hawaii Primary sources related to Japanese internment during World War II

Asian American and Pacific Islander Perspectives within Humanities Education BackStory: To Be A Citizen? The History of Becoming American Beyond Island Wear Challenging School Segregation: The Fight of Chinese Americans Citizenship, Race, and Place: Frontiers in Asian American History Exclusion or Inclusion? The Japanese Struggle to Own Land in California Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy Hawai'i's Annexation and Statehood: How the Island Nation Became an American Frontier Highlights of Preservation & Access Division Projects An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays I Remember: Japanese Incarceration During WWII Japanese American Internment Camps During WWII Landmarks of American History: From Immigrants to Citizens: Asian Pacific Americans in the Northwest Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant Class in Edo Period Japan Lu Shih: The Couplets of T'ang NEH Virtual Bookshelf: Asian American and Pacific Islander Experiences Online Learning Center from the Bishop Museum in Honolulu (Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Hunanities) Outside the Frame: How Asia Changed the Course of American Art (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities) Tanka: Japanese Poetry Why Here?: Heart Mountain, Wyoming and Japanese Incarceration The World of Haiku

Art from Asia (DVD) Edo: Art in Japan, 1615–1868 The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology I.M. Pei and the Geometry of the National Gallery of Art (Grades 5-8) Uncovering America

The American Home Front and World War II (11 articles) “Breathing Fire”: Asian/Pacific American Chapter from the LGBTQ Theme Study “A Brief Glimpse: Asian American Pacific Islander National Historic Landmarks Theme Study” (.pdf) Educator Resources – Teachers Finding a Path Forward: Asian American Pacific Islander National Historic Landmarks Theme Study Find Your Place: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (.pdf) “Japanese Americans in WWII” (.pdf) Theme Study Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants in California Teach It! - Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage The War Relocation Centers of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger than Justice

Asian America Asian Pacific American Heritage Teaching Resources BookDragon—a round-up of the latest titles in children's and young adult literature for diverse readers Island Soundscape: Musics of Hawai'i, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea Learning Together Music & Migration: “We Are the Children” (Smithsonian Learning Lab collection) Standing Together Against Hate Vincent Chin Legacy Guide: Asian Americans Building the Movement (Research assistance provided by the Smithsonian Institution)

Japanese American Relocation