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Deborah Bekken

Former Director, Gantz Family Collections Center
Gantz Family Collections Center
Adjunct Curator
Pronouns:She/Her/Hers
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  • AANHPI Scavenger Hunt-English

  • AANHPI Teacher Reference Guide

  • Bayanihan: Unity in Community

    Lesson PlanGrades 6-12

  • Chicago's Chinatown Coloring Pages

    Color and Explore Chinatown!

    ActivityGrades PK-12

  • Chicago's Chinatown Community Guide

    An infographic guide to Chinatown's past, present, and future.

    ActivityLesson PlanGrades 3-8

  • Chicago's Legacy Hula & TEAACH Act

    Chicago's Legacy Hula Professional Development Workshop

    Video

  • Chicago's Legacy Hula Virtual Tour

    Learn the untold history of four Kumu Hula (master teachers of Hawaiian Hula) who perpetuated, preserved, and protected Hula as a way of life. 

    Interactive or AppGrades PK-12

  • Chicago's Legacy Hula Virtual Tour Discussion Questions

    ActivityLesson PlanGrades 6-12

  • Chicago's Legacy Hula Virtual Tour Standards Alignment

    Lesson PlanActivityGrades 6-12

  • Community Guide Instructions

    This activity invites you to document, honor, and analyze a community through history, place, and lived experience.

    ActivityGrades 6-12

  • Create your own Community Guide

    ActivityGrades 6-12

  • Creating a Poupou (Ancestor Panel)

    ActivityGrades 3-8

  • Experiential Workshop Program Guide

    Workshop overview with descriptions and standards.

    Lesson PlanGrades PK-12

  • Exploring Artifacts from the Pacific | Exploring the Field Guide

    Observe and analyze artifacts from the Pacific Islands to develop evidence-based claims about how these cultures view the world.

    ActivityGrades 9-12

  • Harris Loan Experience Box

    As American As...? Teaching Chinese American History through Food

    Activity

  • Interview #1: Verna Apio Takashima on Kapa Making

    Master Kapa Maker Verna Apio Takashima discusses her work as an artist and what inspired her to become a kapa maker.

    VideoGrades 6-12

  • Interview #2: Verna Apio Takashima on the Significance of Hawaiian Kapa

    Master Kapa Maker Verna Apio Takashima explains the difference between kapa and the barkcloth of other Pacific Islands.Then, she shares why it is important to teach kapa making to future generations.

    VideoGrades 6-12

  • Interview #3: Verna Apio Takashima on What Students Should Know About Kapa and Hawaiʻi

    Master Kapa Maker Verna Apio Takashima reflects on why learning traditional kapa methods is important and how Hawaiʻi is a special place because of aloha.

    VideoGrades 6-12

  • Kapa Making Part 1: Beating the Kapa

    Master Kapa Maker Verna Apio Takashima demonstrates the first steps of making kapa and explains how she learned the artform from her kumu (teacher).

    VideoGrades 6-12

  • Kapa Making Vocabulary

    Learn more about kapa making tools and 'Ōlelo Hawaiʻi – the Native Hawaiian language – as you watch Verna Apio Takashima’s videos about kapa making.

    ActivityLesson PlanGrades 6-12

  • Maori Wharenui

    Wharenui Matching Game

    GameGrades 3-8

  • Pepeha (For Non-Māori)

    Learn about pepeha (a Māori form of introduction), and then write your own!

    ActivityLesson PlanGrades 3-8

  • TEAACH Act Panel

    The TEAACH Act: From Advocacy to Implementation, A Virtual Professional Development Panel

    Video

  • The Māori Meeting House: A Living Ancestor

    Lesson Plan for Early Elementary and Middle School | Grades 3-5, 6-8

    Lesson PlanGrades 3-8

  • The Māori Meeting House: A Living Ancestor (Student Copy-English/Spanish)

    Slide Deck with Vocabulary. 

    Lesson PlanGrades 3-8