This special issue of Social Education offers extensive background and teaching activities for incorporating the histories of Asian Americans in the classroom throughout the schoolyear.
Examining the Page Act, which restricted the immigration of Chinese women into the United States, can stimulate important classroom discussions on the stigmatization of Asian women and its lingering implications today.
Studying the artists and art of Japanese American incarceration can deepen student understanding about the experiences of 120,000 people forcibly removed from their homes during World War II.
While some racial and ethnic groups share similarities, it’s important to disaggregate our teaching so that overlooked communities such as Southeast Asians can be properly represented.
Examining the rich history of Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American (APIDA) civic participation and resistance can spark an important classroom lesson on anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This timeline of APIDA history can launch numerous classroom activities that explore the historical, political, and societal contexts of specific events.
The featured list of lesson plans, websites, and primary sources can help teachers regularly incorporate APIDA history into the social studies classroom.
We must move beyond the “conqueror narratives” of our teaching because the struggles and resistance of colonized peoples are part of our national story.
Inviting students to examine and search through the digitized diary of a Civil War soldier can help develop students’ digital literacy skills and launch an engaging lesson on the Civil War.
Recentering the Human Experience with Technology in the Social Studies
The featured classroom-based project enables students to examine historical maps to consider the intentions and effects behind map production and design.
Exploring digitized archives, such as the featured exhibit about a young Holocaust survivor, can spark important classroom discussions about prejudice and the responsibilities of ordinary citizens.