Resources for K-12 Education

K-12 resources created by the Center for Southeast Asia & its Diasporas

• Climate Change: A Country Profile of Indonesia (Can be used in conjunction with Choices curriculum unit Climate Change and Questions of Justice)
• Incorporating Southeast Asia into your World History Curriculum
  • Trial of the Mongols and Sample Witness Narrative: Vietnamese General Trần Hưng Đạo
  • Mongols: 0, Dai Viet: 3 Correcting the Historical Record
  • Lesson plans by Rob Hallock and Katy Smoot, Sammamish High School
    • Building the New House of Wisdom
    • Indian Ocean Trade
• K-12 Book Recommendations: Ideas from across Southeast Asia
• Country Profiles: Welcome students from Cambodia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam to your class
• Teachable Cambodia
• Teachable Indonesia Grades K-8: A dozen ways to grab your students’ attention
• The Ramayanas of Southeast Asia
• Where in Southeast Asia: Fun trivia to engage your students

Newspapers in Education – The Seattle Times and Jackson School of International Studies

Global Energy Today: The Asian Nexus (2017)

• Teacher’s Guide
• Toward Building Energy Efficiency and Conservation in Southeast Asia: Indonesia’s “Low Hanging Fruit” for Energy Saving
• Series Conclusion

Global Asia: Turning Points in Modern Asian History (2016)

• Teacher’s Guide
• Series Introduction
• Turning Points in Southeast Asia, 1900 to 2016
• Turning Points in Asia: Looking into the Future

Global Asia: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2015)

• Teacher’s Guide
• Early Modern Empires of Asia
• Premodern Empires of Asia
• Colonialism and Imperialism in Asia

Asian Cities (2014)

• Teacher’s Guide
• Urban and Megacity Asia
• The Rickshaw Trade in Colonial Vietnam

Other sources

Cornell University

• Teaching resources

National Endowment for the Humanities

• Southeast Asia at the Crossroads of WWII 

Northern Illinois University

• NIU lesson plans
• General Southeast Asia: Lesson plans from various sources
• Cambodia: Lesson plans from various sources
• East Timor: Lesson plans from various sources
• Indonesia: Lesson plans from various sources
• Laos: Lesson plans from various sources
• Myanmar Lesson plans from various sources

Podcasts

• UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies podcast
• History of Southeast Asia podcast
• Southeast Asia Crossroads

Primary Source

• Cambodia overview
• Cambodia lesson plans
• Vietnam overview

On Top of the World podcast

• Interview about how to incorporate Southeast Asia in World History

Stanford Project on International and Cross-cultural Education (SPICE)

• Curriculum units on contemporary Indonesia, the Vietnam War, Rice and more

University of California, Berkeley

• ‘Islam Today’ resources
• Lesson plans for teaching the Ramayana

University of Michigan

• Teaching US colonialism in the Philippines with photos