If you’re interested in that broadest of all musical categories, “world music,” you won’t find a better site than Smithsonian Folkways, which contains 40,000 tracks from the Smithsonian Folkways archives. Albums and individual songs are available for purchase and download. For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Smithsonian Folkways offers free music and videos by artists from both sides of the ocean and points in between. An online exhibition is included.
Heritage Month on Smithsonian Folkways
Each year, the Smithsonian honors Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a calendar full of activities. Visit the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month website each May for more information on the events in the Washington, D.C., area.
These four units on Vietnamese American history focus on resettlement and contributions. The curriculum includes a timeline and bibliography.
This curriculum guide includes lesson plans on Korean American history, Korean American literature, and the subject of adopted children from Korea. Each lesson includes background information, a timeline, and a bibliography.
Two young characters, Marissa and Jordan, serve as hosts of this multimedia curriculum guide. The lessons present Filipino American history and culture as a means of considering broader ideas of ethnic heritage. The site includes a section for students. 
This lesson plan tells the story of friendship between a San Diego children's librarian and a group of young people sent to an internment camp during World War II. Their correspondence is the basis for lessons using letters as primary sources.
The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage presents a virtual lu’au, complete with music and (virtual) food. Those who have been to Hawaiian hotel lu’au will find this a very different experience.
Learn about the “Gold Mountain Travelers,” more than 322,000 Chinese immigrants who came to the United States between 1850 and 1882 searching for freedom and prosperity in California.
This compendium of web links is part of Encyclopedia Smithsonian. 
Learn about the history of Buddhism and how to find innovative ways to include the study of Asia in curricula.
The guide explores the many facets of Hindu worship. It includes background information, activities, a bibliography, and a “discussion with young American Hindus.”
Learn about three especially important categories of artistic expression in Islam: the art of the book, the art of the mosque, and the art of the portable object.
The lesson plan introduces the traditional Japanese art of screen painting. Students compare a Japanese screen to an American landscape painting, looking for cultural and geographical information. 