Asia in the Classroom

Houston Asiatown and the Gee Family

The World Within Reach: The Story of Yueping Sun Zine Activity

The Cultural Revolution and Political Posters

This lesson guide accompanies The World Within Reach: The Story of Yueping Sun to teach students about China's Cultural Revolution. Students learn key terms, identify themes in Ping's story, then create their own political posters.

The Silk Road: Setting the Stage

Introduce students to the Silk Road and its divergent impact on different regions. Students will employ skills of comparison and contrast and gain a foundational understanding items traded along the Silk Road.

Silk Road Storyboarding

Inspired by our Adventures of Asia story Four Pillars, students are challenged to "show not tell" in their writing. This interactive lesson provides resources for storyboarding, character-building, and a Silk Road Game.

At-Home Adventures through Asia: China

Journey through Chinese culture through hands on lessons on geography, history, language, and arts.

Connection through Language: Mandarin

Students will identify the key points of the history of Mandarin and the evolution of characters, the written system used in Mandarin. In the process, students will learn how to pronounce and write basic vocabulary.

Chinese Americans in the Jim Crow South

Students will recognize multiple perspectives through analyzing the historical and modern day impacts of segregation in Augusta, Georgia through the lens of Asian Americans.