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Empower your students to learn more about Asian American heritage and celebrate heroes from a variety of Asian ethnic backgrounds. This year, Target has partnered with the Asian Pacific Fund to celebrate Asian American heritage and the varied voices of these diverse communities. Since 1993, The Fund has supported and contributed to the well-being and interests of the Asian American community through programs, grants, scholarships and more. Now your students can learn about and honor Asian American heritage through a curriculum that explores innovators and their achievements. These lesson plans allow you and your students to discover the stories and backgrounds of people from places like Cambodia, China, the Philippines, India, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and more. Our lesson plans are grade-appropriate and include everything you’ll need to encourage and inspire your students to embrace shared differences through the vibrancy of Asian American heritage and its cultures. 
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Through a lesson sure to create abundant opportunities for discussion, your students will examine the idea of “heroes” as well as identify people in their own community whom they admire. As an introductory activity, students are acquainted with Asian Americans who have excelled in their chosen fields, whether by being experts, groundbreakers or inspirations of other sorts. Once they are familiar with these leaders, students are then encouraged to consider and discuss those in their own family, neighborhood and community who are worthy of admiration. Through this exercise, students will see that true heroes are all around us.
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This lesson blends geography, trivia and research to provide a thought-provoking and discussion-worthy activity for your students. Mapping a large number of Asian countries, you’ll share “fun facts” and information about these countries, their history and their people. Students are then encouraged to research their own family backgrounds to find out which of their family members came from other countries. After mapping their ancestral homelands and families’ immigration patterns to America, students can then connect all of the locations with string on a world map. This “immigration web” can help the class see the journeys that began from many parts of the world and ended with all of the students in the same classroom, connecting each one of them with the other.
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This lesson combines biographical exploration with both verbal and writing skill formation. First, your students are introduced to a diverse set of accomplished Asian Americans. Exploring these heroes’ stories and the characteristics they share is sure to prompt animated classroom discussions. Following this, students are guided to document an interview with a family member whom they admire or write a biography of an Asian American hero or one from their own personal cultural background. This process is sure to teach students that heroes can be defined in many ways and there is a "hero" in all of us.
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This lesson plan is sure to challenge your students to view Asia and Asian Americans in a variety of ways. While mapping numerous Asian countries, your students will learn about the cultural, linguistic, governmental and economic range within those countries. The information is sure to spawn both dynamic and contemplative discussions in your classroom about this continent of diversity. Through this project, your students may discover a new passion for a subject, greater interest in Asian Pacific countries or the world as a whole, and more.
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