Description
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FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH BUNDLE:
- Recommended for: Grades 2-5 (elementary version) and 7-12 (secondary version). Grade 6 can use either presentation.
- Formats: PPT, Google Slides, PDF
- Technology Requirements: computer + projector + screen (needed for both lessons)
- Lesson Duration Elementary: 50 minutes total (includes a natural stopping point for splitting into two lessons)
- Lesson Duration Secondary: 40 minutes (54 slides timed at 45 seconds per slide)
- Editable: YES, all text in both lessons is editable
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:
- Elementary and secondary presentations for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
- 52 (elementary) + 54 (secondary) PPT slides + Google™ Slides link (all text is editable)
- Recommended Reads for both (2 pages, editable in PDF and PPT; hand out to teachers, students, and parents)
- Elementary scavenger hunt activity (differentiated; 2 pages + answer key)
- Basic Google Classroom directions
- How to set PPT and Google slide timings directions
STUDENTS WILL LEARN – ELEMENTARY VERSION:
- 4 recommended library read-alouds. Each book has a video recommendation to accompany the story. Two additional links are to easy how-to origami videos (butterfly and dog origami).
- sign language slide and “how-to sign” video link (“Asia”)
- What are the seven continents? (includes colorful continent map)
- What continent is…largest? smallest? Which one do you live on?
- May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- Real photos of Taj Mahal (India), Red Square (Russia), Angkor Wat (Cambodia), the Chocolate Hills (Philippines), and rice terraces (Vietnam)
- 5 largest countries, 5 small countries, and 5 island countries in Asia
- vocabulary words: immigrants and naturalization
FAMOUS ASIAN AMERICANS – ACROSS BOTH VERSIONS
Some of these overlap in both versions, and others are just in one version. You can copy and paste slides as needed if you want to put them in both versions.
- Anna May Wong (actress)
- Chang and Eng Bunker (conjoined twins)
- George Takei (actor, writer, activist)
- Hazel Ying Lee (WWII pilot)
- Queen Liliʻuokalani (Queen of Hawaii)
- Yo-Yo Ma (musician)
- Kelly Yang (children’s author)
- I.M. Pei (architect)
- Bruce Lee (actor, martial artist)
- Dwayne Johnson (actor, pro-wrestler)
STUDENTS WILL LEARN – SECONDARY VERSION:
- Quick facts about Asia: largest and smallest countries
- What is the only Asian country that is entirely in the southern hemisphere?
- Why did North Korea and South Korea split?
- Differences between North Korea and South Korea
- 38th Parallel
- Asian foods–curry, baozi, borscht
- Can the Great Wall of China be seen from space?
- What’s interesting about garbage pick-up in Taiwan?
- Petra, Jordan is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World
- facts about Hawaii
- Kaho’olawe Island, Hawaii – why doesn’t anyone live there?
- just how large is Russia?
- The Sundarbans (mangroves in Bangladesh and India)
- Manila North Cemetery homeless population
- facts about Manila and The Philippines
- Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, and Genghis Khan
- Words of the Week: Chinese Exclusion Act and internment
BOTH VERSIONS INCLUDE:
- trivia questions with answers
- Did you know…
- Would-you-rathers
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Happy Birthday to…
***While both presentations include some of the same people and landmarks, no two slides are the same in these presentations. Both resources are very different from one another.
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