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Books for Young Readers Lesson Plans Educator Resources

Books for Young Readers


A Different Pond
by Bao Phi (Author), Thi Bui (Illustrator)
Ages: 4-8 years

Allison
by Allen Say
Ages: 4-7 years

Baseball Saved Us
by Ken Mochizuki (Author), Dom Lee (Illustrator)
Ages: 5-8 years

Coolies
by Yin (Author), Chris Soentpiet (Illustrator)
Ages: 7-10 years

Farewell to Manzanar
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
Ages: 7-12 years

Grandfather's Journey
by Allen Say
Ages: 5-8 years

Home of the Brave
by Allen Say
Ages: 4-7 years

Journey Home
by Yoshiko Uchida (Author), Charles Robinson (Illustrator)
Ages: 10+ years

Journey to Topaz
by Yoshiko Uchida (Author), Donald Carrick (Illustrator)
Ages: 9+ years

My Chinatown
by Kam Mak
Ages: 4-8 years

Obāchan told me Gaman
by Samantha Matsukawa (Author), Asano Swenson (Illustrator)
Ages: elementary (This book is in every elementary school in Utah)

Shining a Light: Celebrating 40 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World
by Veeda Bybee
Ages: 8-12 years

Tea with Milk
by Allen Say
Ages: 4-7 years

The Bracelet
by Yoshiko Uchida
Ages: 4-8 years

They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei, Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott (Authors), Harmony Becker (Illustrator)
Ages: 9+ years

Troublemaker
by John Cho
Ages: 9+ years

Wishes
by Muon Thi Van (Author), Victo Ngai (Illustrator)
Ages: 4-8 years

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Lesson Plans

Chinese Exclusion and Angel Island
This unit was created in Fall 2014 as a means to introduce Asian immigration to elementary and middle school students.
MOCA Heroes Digital Magazines
MOCA Heroes is a series of digital nonfiction magazines that explore the lives of Chinese American trailblazers.

The Asian American Education Project
The history of Asian Americans is deeply intertwined with America’s own history, yet often forgotten or ignored within today’s classrooms and public discourse. Online lesson plans here provide a tailored K–12 curriculum for educators to teach this rich history to students.

The National Veterans Network - Elementary School Activities
These activities complement an online resource for teachers about the Nisei Soldier Congressional Gold Medal, and more broadly, the history around America’s concentration camps during World War II.

Wing Luke Museum - Curriculum
Wing Luke Museum created curriculum sets to blend Asian and Pacific Islander histories into social studies, language arts and history courses.

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Educator Resources

Asian Americans | PBS Learning Media
Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. Teachers may utilize over 30 lesson plans which are drawn from the series to explore the ways that Asian Americans have shaped our nation's history.

Chinese Historical Society of America - Teacher Resources
The Chinese Historical Society of America offers educators classroom resources curriculum guides contain resources related to Chinese American Exclusion/Inclusion and Towards Equality: California’s Chinese American Women.

Densho
Densho uses digital technology to preserve and make accessible primary source materials on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Japanese American National Museum - Education Resources
Activities and resources for learners of all ages that make learning about the Japanese American experience engaging and exciting. Resources include printable offline activities, origami videos, web resources and lessons, printable curriculum, and more.

Japanese Internment in Utah
Browse primary source sets for important pieces of history regarding Japanese internment.

Minidoka Education
Minidoka National Historic Site in Jerome, ID shares the stories of the 13,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in the region during World War II. The site also holds lessons on civil and constitutional rights, racism and the fragility of democracy in times of crisis.

National Japanese American Historical Society
The National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc. (NJAHS) is dedicated to the collection, preservation, authentic interpretation and sharing of historical information of the Japanese American experience for the broader national and global community. NJAHS provides educators with tools to help prepare students to be informed citizens in a constitutional democracy.

The National Veterans Network
The National Veterans Network is a national organization whose mission is to educate current and future generations about the extraordinary legacy of American WWII soldiers of Japanese ancestry in order to promote equality and justice.

Topaz Museum
The Topaz Museum in Delta, Utah aims to preserve the nearby Topaz incarceration site and its World War II history. It also seeks to interpret the impact of Topaz on the people who were detained there and the Millard County community.

Wing Luke Museum - Educator Resources
Wing Luke Museum created classroom resources, training for teachers, digital interactive multimedia resources and short documentary films for the classroom.

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