Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Digital Bulletin Board for Secondary

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which also includes celebrating Native Hawaiian heritage.

This Digital Library Bulletin Board highlights over 20 Asian countries, 7 Asian Americans, food, landmarks, and interesting facts. Includes Recommended Reads list, and all text is editable.

This product has 61 slides & pages, and it includes:

• 54-slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint + Google Slides
  • All body text is editable; you choose which slides you want to use.
  • This presentation is for entertainment and communication. Students will learn a lot about Asian countries, but it is NOT meant to be a formal direct instruction library lesson.
• List of 23 recommended books to accompany this lesson (1 page, PowerPoint and PDF)
  • Middle school and Young Adult (YA) titles
  • The list is editable and great to hand out to parents, teachers, and students looking for related books.
• Google Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
• Instructions on how to set up PowerPoint slide timings (2 pages, PDF)

54 Digital Bulletin Board Slides:

• 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
• Famous Asian Americans:
  • Anna May Wong (actress)
  • Chang and Eng Bunker (conjoined twins)
  • George Takei (actor, writer, activist)
  • Hazel Ying Lee (WWII pilot)
  • Queen Lili’uokalani (Queen of Hawai’i)
  • Yo-Yo Ma (musician)
  • Kelly Yang (author)
• Vocabulary Words of the Week: “Chinese Exclusion Act” and “internment”
• Trivia questions with answer slides
• Did You Know question slides
• Would You Rather question slides
• This or That slide
• Daily and weekly schedule
• This week’s birthdays

Standards Addressed:

AASL National School Library Standards – See the AASL Standards Framework for Learners to view full text. 

• Inquire –  C.1. – D.1.
• Explore – A.1. – C.1.

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