In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, we have compiled high-quality classroom resources to help teachers explore and celebrate these diverse cultures with their students throughout the school year.
Booklists
- Asian/Pacific American Libraries Association (APALA)
- Colorin Colorado
- First Book
- New York Public Library
Curriculum materials
The Asian American Education Project (AAEdu) hosts workshops throughout the year to support and empower educators to bring Asian American Pacific Islander Desi American stories into classrooms across the country. AAEdu’s resource hub includes an extensive collection of cross-curricular K-12 lesson plans.
Additional resources:
- AFT’s collection of AAPI Heritage resources (all grade levels)
- Asia Society’s educator resources(all grade levels)
- Learning for Justice: Asian American Identity and History (all grade levels)
- Library of Congress' Asian/Pacific heritage curriculum collection (middle school and above)
- Make Us Visible's Coloring Book (elementary)
- “Min Jee’s Lunch” video read-aloud (early elementary)
- National Endowment for the Humanities DBQ unit on Japanese Internment (middle school and above)
- PBS video series: Asian Americans (upper elementary and above)
- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s collection (all grade levels)
- University of Chicago's Center for East Asian Studies (all grade levels)