A guided lesson plan for styrofoam block printing with tips that can be used with the previous resources (The Tokaido, Japanese Fine Prints) to provide both the history of woodblock printing and a hands-on experience where students can create their own prints to take home.
This fantastic collection of lesson plans from the East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University uses ukiyo-e (“Pictures of the Floating World,” or Japanese Woodblock Prints) to explore culture and travel along feudal Japan’s famous Tokaido Road connecting the imperial capital of Kyoto and the Shogun’s administrative capital of Edo (present-day Tokyo). Students use the classic collection “The Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido” to learn historical skills, explore the relationship between culture and environment, and explore change over time. The included link features a wide-range of lesson plans, from Elementary Grades 1 – 3 all the way to high school.
This lesson plans highlights letters from Gen Z protesters participating the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) in Burma, as well as an original story from a Bamar girl’s perspective that follows the past and present of Burma. These letters were gathered by the students who joined the movement and founded the non-government media-platform People’s Radio Myanmar, then developed the letters into a lesson plan that covers history, social studies, and language arts. It provides different ideas for class activities, including readings with writing exercises that can be done in a group or individually.
Comfort Women Education is an online resource collection created by Comfort Women Action for Redress and Education or CARE. This source provides a lesson plan to discuss Comfort Women that includes powerpoints, resource handbooks, and video lessons.
In this lesson plan, students compare and contrast Spain’s and Portugal’s early sea explorations to reach Asia using maps.
While Islam is a world religion, this map activity helps students grasp how Islam spread to Southeast Asia and became a major center for the religion.
An initiative of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia, Asia for Educators aggregates materials to serve K-12 teachers across disciplines. This specific page outlines major themes about the region of Southeast Asia.
This discussion guide includes activities and discussion questions to facilitate learning and conversation on the Chinese American history presented in Bluff City Chinese, a short documentary film directed by Thandi Cai. Bluff City Chinese follows two storytellers of different generations on a mission to share the untold history of Chinese American immigrants in Memphis, Tennessee. The film observes the complex nature of crafting historical narratives from scratch and explores how a yearning for identity can bring generations of people together to break ground for a more hopeful future.
This discussion guide includes activities, discussion questions, and a chapter-by-chapter breakdown to facilitate learning and conversation on themes of community memory established in Bluff City Chinese, a short documentary film directed by Thandi Cai. Bluff City Chinese follows two storytellers of different generations on a mission to share the untold history of Chinese American immigrants in Memphis, Tennessee. The film observes the complex nature of crafting historical narratives from scratch and explores how a yearning for identity can bring generations of people together to break ground for a more hopeful future.
This lesson plan examines post–Civil War debates in the South over the recruitment of Chinese laborers to replace enslaved workers. Using primary source articles and editorials from Arkansas newspapers, students analyze competing perspectives on race, labor, and immigration in the Reconstruction-era South.
This lesson plan invites students to explore the consequences of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act in Arkansas. Drawing on primary source materials from the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, the lesson plan includes sample readings, discussion questions, and classroom activities designed to fulfill Arkansas state social studies standards for Arkansas History and High School U.S. History.
This lesson plan is a comprehensive one-week curriculum on the history of Uyghurs and East Turkistan, along with the current repression campaign by the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), designed for 11th and 12th grade social science and history students.
