Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Digital exhibit exploring queer Asian Pacific Islander identity
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PBS Learning Media
A catalog of education films spanning across subject areas organized by grade level, including standards and resources for educators and students. Online: https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/
Native Knowledge 360
“Building on the ten themes of the National Council for the Social Studies’ national curriculum standards, the NMAI’s Essential Understandings reveal key concepts about the rich and diverse cultures, histories, and contemporary lives of Native Peoples. These concepts reflect a multitude of untold stories about American Indians that can deepen and expand your teaching of…
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s Learning Together
The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center is working on building out resources to support education in the classroom around Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. There are currently only a few entries but some of them are very rich, for example the collection of photographs around the transcontinental railroad. Online: https://smithsonianapa.org/learn/learn-archives/
Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder
Includes lessons teaching students how to be their own (photo)journalists and tied to investigating current events/news/issues. Some examples are “Interview Analysis: How Can We Save Black and Brown Lives During a Pandemic?”, which looks at demographic data to understand the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, and “Exploring Media Representation and Bias in Photography” to teach youth…
The 1619 Project
A Pulitzer-prize winning project focused on the history of slavery. Includes a few lesson plans and other curricular resources, and some are tied fairly closely to New York Times articles. Online: https://pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum