Teach it! With Educational Materials
Providing free education tools and materials for teachers, interpreters, students, and lifelong learners inside and outside the National Park Service is one important way we support the agency's mission. The value of America's cultures and diverse heritages may be lost if it's not passed on to the next generation or experienced by the present one.
The National Park Service provides free, online lesson plans through its Teaching with Historic Places series. The series features historic buildings, regions, parks, neighborhoods, and archeological sites—all listed on the National Register of Historic Places—where Asian American and Pacific Islander people made history. The lessons align with national curriculum standards and each lesson contains primary and secondary sources, including readings, maps, and images, and recommended activities.
Educators and parents can also find resources for all grade levels in the Educators’ Portal. Search for lesson plans, traveling trunks, materials for loan, and more.
Asian American Pacific Islander History
Dive deep into these place-based educational resources relating to Asian American and Pacific Islander history and culture.
Curiosity Kits
These kits provide interactive ways to engage with the past whether at home or in place.
Religion on the World War II Home Front
On the home front, Americans turned to their diverse religious beliefs to make sense of the world.
Lesson Series on Entangled Inequalities
A lesson series of entangled inequalities that brought two families together - Japanese incarceration and Mexican school segregation.
Kids in Parks
Take an oath to protect your parks and continue to learn more about them by becoming a Junior Ranger!
'Iolani Palace Lesson Plan
Learn about the Pacific Islanders who ruled the Hawaiian Islands for nearly a thousand years until the 19th century.
Bainbridge Island Junior Ranger Program
Explore the junior ranger program at Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, a unit of Minidoka National Historic Site.
Last updated: June 7, 2024