This resource aims to:

• suggest picture books to support the cross-curriculum priority of Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia and the general capabilities of intercultural understanding and difference and diversity within the context of human society and its environment (HSIE)
• promote the value of using picture books in learning in K–10 geography and history
• provide snapshots of learning activities that enable students to:
• acquire knowledge and understandings of the diversity within and between Asian countries, cultures, values and beliefs
• build knowledge and understandings of the achievements, contributions and influences of Asia’s peoples
• develop a global perspective and build understandings, knowledge and skills in interconnections between Australia and Asia
• develop and practise knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions in intercultural understanding
• develop and practise skills in historical and geographical inquiry
• investigate, think critically about and act responsibly for their world.