About:
Watsonville is in the Heart is committed to making Pajaro Valley Filipino American histories accessible to students, educators, and researchers and to empowering students to document their own family and community histories. Our team of undergraduate and graduate student researchers works to design engaging and experiential activities, lesson plans, and teaching tools that can be seamlessly integrated into a variety of classroom environments. We seek to co-create our educational resources with K-12 educators, students, and community members.
Below is a list of WIITH’s educational resources. All of our resources are free to use and available online.
- Pajaro Valley Filipino American History Lesson Plans (grades 9-12)
- Filipino American Community and Identity in the Pajaro Valley Canvas Module (college)
- Oral History Lesson Plan
- How to Build a Community Archive Resource Set
More Educational Resources are Coming Soon:
- Sowing Seeds Exhibition Educational Materials (Launches in April 2024)
- A Recuperative History of Filipino Farmworkers in the Pajaro Valley: Digital Mapping Project (Launches in May 2024)