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Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with our students in middle school with these three fun and engaging Cinco de Mayo activity crossword puzzles.

The puzzles are filled with words and phrases related to the history and culture of Cinco de Mayo, making them perfect for teachers looking to add some excitement to their lesson plans.

In addition, these easy-to-use crossword puzzles are a great way to introduce students to Mexican culture and history in a fun and interactive way. This will help you challenge your students to test their knowledge while developing their vocabulary and critical thinking skills.

Get your copy today and make Cinco de Mayo a memorable and educational experience for your students!

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Make learning about Cinco de Mayo interesting with this no-prep digital escape game.  The game includes access to a website where your students will hunt for the keys to unlock a set of locks.  Students will need to read the clues very carefully and watch videos, visit websites, and read texts to find the information they need to win the game.  Very easy to use - just send your students to the website and let them work!  Students can play individually or in teams. 

Cinco de Mayo is almost here!  Your friend from Puebla has sent you some candies from Mexico, but in order to open the box and retrieve them, you will have to figure out the codes that open the locks by learning about Cinco de Mayo and the traditions surrounding it.  This is a challenging activity that students will need to work together and think critically in order to complete. Some readings are in English while others are in Spanish.

Digital escape games are a fun way to start a unit, or to review at the end of a unit.  They can also be used to learn about a cultural or historical event.  This game will have your students reading carefully and paying attention to the smallest details in order to complete the challenge and unlock the locks.  

This item includes:

• Access to a website where your students can play the game
• Complete teacher's guide to playing the game
• Answer key so you can help students if they get stuck!

Your students will enjoy learning without even realizing that they are learning!  The challenging game format will get them excited about finding the code to unlock each lock - and the format of the clues for each lock will have them paying close attention - there's no way to solve the puzzles  without being 100% focused! 

Topics in this game include:

• Mole Poblano
• Benito Juarez
• Mariachi Music
• Ignacio Zaragosa
• The Battle of Puebla

Prep is very easy - you just need to share the website URL with your students.  You may want to test the site before you use it, just to make sure nothing is blocked by your district.  As some of the clues can be challenging to unlock, you may choose to help your students with the trickier ones.  With the teacher guide, you will have the answer key - so you can help guide students towards the correct answer by giving them hints, or if you have limited time, you can adjust the game by reducing the number of locks they need to unlock - just give them the answer(s) to help the activity fit your time constraints.

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Discover dynamic discussion points that cater to all levels of Spanish learners in grades 6-12. Whether for online forums, class discussions, or bell-ringers, these prompts cover a wide range of topics, from holidays and legends to foods, sports, and language-related discussions. With a monthly organization, these adaptable prompts keep the conversation flowing throughout the year while promoting language acquisition and cultural enrichment. Plus, they incorporate short videos, online articles, and more for a fully immersive experience. Elevate your classroom discussions today with these versatile prompts and spark a passion for learning and sharing!

Ideal for use as:

Online Discussion Forums

Bell-Ringers

Exit Tickets

Think-Pair-Share

Gallery Walk

Journaling

Early finisher work

Task cards

Extra Credit

And More!

Many prompts use technology so be aware they may require access to short, classroom-appropriate videos of approximately 5 minutes or less (Spanishpod 101 or youtube) and links to online articles or photos for discussion. One prompt per week all year round plus extras!

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Are you looking for an easy and low-prep way to review likes and dislikes vocabulary with your Spanish students? Then look no further! These fun word puzzles (in pdf form) are a great way to practice or review likes and dislikes vocab with your students. There are 20 infinitives/verb phrases included in the five puzzles.

This file includes:

• one crossword (with clues in English)
• one word search (with clues in English)
• one mystery word puzzle, also known as "crack the code" (with pictures, no English)
• one word jumble puzzle (without clues)
• one vocab matching (match Spanish to English)
• answer keys for each puzzle
• a table of contents
• teacher tips page

Make sure to check out the preview for a complete list of included terms in Spanish!

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La Noche buena history, and modernization readings.

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Engage your students with this 2 pages worksheet, focused on the renowned Spanish festival, La Tomatina. Designed for secondary Spanish students, this resource includes a reading comprehension passage about Nico’s unforgettable experience at the Tomatina festival. Here’s what it includes:

• Reading comprehension: Students answer questions in Spanish based on Nico’s story, building skills in understanding authentic-style texts.

• Grammar practice: A focused section on the pluperfect tense (pretérito pluscuamperfecto) helps students understand the tense and gain confidence in using this advanced tense to describe actions that happened prior to other past events.

• Vocabulary and Writing practice: Key vocabulary and phrases from the text are reinforced with translation exercises, promoting retention of useful language structures related to festivals and personal experiences.

The final writing task encourages students to write about their own hypothetical festival experience, using a mix of the pluperfect and preterite tenses, opinions, and connectors. This task is an excellent way to prepare students for the writing paper of the exam while allowing them to explore cultural themes.

This worksheet can support lessons on cultural topics, serve as effective exam prep, or offer meaningful cover work for independent study.

AP Spanish® teachers: save time searching for the right video for your students! This Google Doc contains a link to a YouTube video and a viewing guide perfect for Unit 5: Los factores que influyen en la calidad de vida.  The accompanying activity is digital and printable. 

Explore how where you live impacts your quality of life as you watch 2 high school students comparing a high school in the United States with one in Mexico.  The video is in Spanish.  Use this assignment as a source for a cultural comparison!

This resource is INCLUDED IN THE COMPLETE LESSON PLANS LINKED BELOW!!!

Who can use this product?

• Students at the Intermediate level of the ACTFL proficiency chart or higher
• AP Spanish® Students

How can I use this product?

• Assign this video and viewing guide for in-class or for homework
• Ask students to discuss the information they added to the chart
• Use small group or whole-class instruction to compare and contrast the 2 schools
• Use the information students learn from the video as a basis for a cultural comparison
• Works well with Unit 5 or Unit 6 of the AP® curriculum!

What’s included in this product?

• One link to a curated YouTube video appropriate for high school Spanish students
• Information about how long the video is
• 2-page Google Doc with a note-taking chart about the specific aspects of the video and follow up questions asking students to compare and contrast

Other Resources You May Like:

AP Spanish Lesson Plans Unit 5 Factors That Influence Quality of Life

Bundle of 5 videos with accompanying questions about schools in the Spanish-speaking world!

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Your students will love practicing Spanish and learning about Spanish Christmas Holidays with these four easily understood (and no prep!) short stories. These Christmas holiday stories contain easily understood vocabulary and can be used for any level of Spanish student.

Each short story has it's own topic of holidays that are part of the Navidad season in Spanish-speaking countries:

- Día de Reyes

- La Nochebuena

- Día de los Inocentes

- El Año Nuevo en España

Each short story comes in PDF format with ...

- 4 true/false questions

- speaking activity

- writing prompt

- drawing activity

These short stories work well for ...

- a think, pair, share activity

- bell ringers to use throughout a unit

- in-class partner activities

- an integrated performance assessment (IPA)

- low-prep sub plans

This product pairs well with ...

Christmas Crossword & Word Search Worksheets

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This is one of my students' favorite projects and a great way to wrap up a unit on clothing. In this project, students will embark on a virtual shopping adventure to purchase clothing items for a family in need. With $600 American dollars collected for a family affected by a recent house fire, students will use their language skills to navigate an authentic Spanish online store to select clothing items for a family of four. My fashionistas get particularly into this one!

Students will:

• Translate their American dollars into Spanish Euros

• Browse through clothing categories

• Convert to European sizes

• Add items to their virtual shopping cart

• Stay within a given budget

• Take notes on new Spanish vocabulary encountered during their shopping experience.

• Complete a "Listo de Regalos" to document their purchases

• Prepare a brief oral presentation in Spanish to share with the class.

This project not only reinforces essential language skills such as vocabulary acquisition and currency conversion but also promotes empathy, cultural awareness, and community engagement. With clear instructions, interactive online shopping, and engaging presentation components, ¡Vamos de Compras! is sure to be a hit with your students too!
Bring real-world relevance and excitement to your Spanish classroom -
¡Vamos de Compras! ¡Es hora de ayudar y aprender juntos!

Do your students need to brush up on their clothing vocabulary before shopping? Check out Spanish Clothing/La Ropa Vocabulary Activities/Practice/Emergency Sub Lesson!

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Are you looking for a fun and highly engaging game for your Spanish students? Play numbers bingo! All you need is one bingo sheet per student and items to mark their board (such as pieces of paper or beans). You call out terms from the Call List included with the game and your students race to be the first to get a bingo. The Call List includes the numbers in Spanish from 0-39 in number and numeral form. This awesome Bingo game includes all 40 numbers (in number and word form) on 32 different game boards (both color and black-and-white versions are included for each for a total of 128 boards).

This bingo game goes great with my Yo tengo, ¿Quién tiene...? game for numbers.

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⭐️Students read a passage and answer comprehension questions. Based on the answers they are able to decode a secret message!

This also includes two different readings about Las Posadas.

Students will then be asked questions that help them compare two readings on the same topic.

➡️In Spanish

Challenge and Engage your students.

Students Read the text.

· Then they answer reading questions.

· If answers to questions are correct the Puzzle shows up in the correct format.

· Then students must decipher the secret word or message.

It's the end of a unit or the end of the school year.... what would be FUN and motivating to students? Learning slang! Digital or printable, this Youtube video and accompanying Google Doc and Edpuzzle viewing guides will help students sound more natural with their speech. This video teaches slang from SPAIN, but check out my other products for slang from other countries!

Students can view the video and write down answers in open-ended form, or they can watch the video in an EdPuzzle and answer the multiple choice questions. (Auto-graded, by the way!) The questions in this activity are written in Spanish, but the language level is basic and should be accessible to students from Novice High and up. The video itself presents Spanish slang terms with explanations in English. The viewing guides are fully customizable to be sure the questions are just right for your students!

Who can use this product?

• Any student interested in learning slang from Spain!

How can I use this product?

• Assign this activity in class or for homework
• Get students excited to learn "real" Spanish!
• Have students complete the viewing guide where they fill in answers to have a document they can save for reference
• Have students complete the Edpuzzle if you need them to have instant feedback and/or a quick grade. (Edpuzzles make it easier for students to answer as the question pops up right after the answer was given! It's a good differentiation for students.)
• Combine this with other activities to create a mini unit!

What's included in this product?

• 1 link to a curated YouTube video (no bad words!)
• 1 link to an Edpuzzle activity
• 1 Google doc with student viewing guide
• Teacher Answer Key

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Looking for ways to introduce the different Spanish-speaking countries to your students? Easily incorporate the culture and history of Costa Rica into any level of your Spanish classroom with 'All About Costa Rica'!

In the story 'Todo sobre Costa Rica', your students will learn about the geography of the country, population, special holidays, common food from the country, and MORE! This reading is a great way to introduce students to Costa Rica while also practicing reading skills. You can reinforce important words and concepts with the included word search, then find out your students' understanding with a 10 question assessment!

This product contains:

• Printable story (with lines for students to write information)
• PDF version of the story -- great for projecting on the screen
• 10 question multiple choice assessment (with answer key)
• Activity ideas for speaking, writing, and drawing
• Word Search with key vocabulary from the story

These stories work well for ...

• partner or small group activities
• an integrated performance assessment (IPA)
• no-prep sub plans
• large group read-aloud

Find more stories about all Spanish-speaking countries here!

Tired of the same Spanish Christmas Projects and looking for something a little more inclusive? Most of your students are probably already pretty familiar with how we celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years, and Valentine's Day in the United States. But have they ever heard of Fiesta de la Candelaria, Constitution Day, Día de Las Velitas, Carnaval, or dozens of other holidays celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world from December through February?

This flexible project is a great way to expose your students to a wide variety of cultural traditions and practices in a short amount of time with minimal effort on your part!

Each student will pick a Spanish-speaking country from a set of preprinted cards, select 2 winter holidays to research, and create a slide presentation to teach the rest of the class what they have learned. Optional graphic organizers are perfect for diverse learners and guided notes keep students engaged and learning during presentations!

Includes:

-Notes to teacher with pacing suggestions

-Detailed Project Directions and Easy grading rubric

-21 Spanish Speaking Country cards

-Graphic Organizer

-Presentation Notes

-Materials available in English and Spanish to make this work for all levels!

Perfect for giving yourself a break before Winter Break by letting your students teach each other! This is also a great project for those long, slow winter days that tend to drag in January and February.

Need other seasonal ideas?

Explore my comprehensive Spanish Navidad/Christmas Vocabulary Practice/Worksheets/Emergency Sub! for more vocab fun! With 10 pages of engaging written practice (featuring word searches, short answers, jumbles, and more) there is something for everyone!

Or let them play a little with Navidad Vocabulary Dominos, Navidad Vocabulary Dice, or Navidad Vocabulary Cut & Paste Bingo.

Looking for something a little more secular? Try my Winter Vocabulary and Emergency Sub Plan. This one is good all season long!

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Are you looking for a fun and highly engaging game for your Spanish students? Play vocab bingo! All you need is one bingo sheet per student and items to mark their board (such as pieces of paper or beans). You call out terms from the Call List included with the game and your students race to be the first to get a bingo. The Call List includes all the vocabulary from the bingo boards. This awesome Bingo game includes 40 Spanish terms on 32 different game boards (both color and black-and-white versions are included for a total of 64 boards).

The terms represented include:

• 12 greetings and goodbyes
• 9 expressions of courtesy
• 12 basic questions and answers
• 7 miscellaneous terms (such as señorita, sí, mi mejor amigo/a, etc)

This bingo game goes great with my Yo tengo, ¿Quién tiene...? game for greetings.

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Going Varsity in Mariachi Movie Guide

As always I take a Deep Dive into the Cultural Aspects of the movie.

With profound love and enduring connection with mariachi music

Includes a cultural sheet, a movie guide in English/Spanish with an answer key.

Bonus deep dive question and 2 more surprises!

Do your AP Spanish students need more practice reading charts and graphs? The AP-style multiple choice questions can be tricky! These Google docs contain 2 graphs and accompanying comprehension questions that can be assigned in Google Classroom (or other learning management platform) for distance learners, or can be printed in color or in black and white for students who are in person. The questions are a combination of short answer and AP-style multiple choice questions to help students practice reading and interpreting graphs. Use these graphs as a part of the Unit 5 sections relating to Education or Work as factors that contribute to quality of life.

Have students interpret graphs on the relationship between level of education and salaries earned in both Mexico and in Spain.

This resource is INCLUDED in the complete lesson plans linked below!!

Who can use this product?

• Students at the Intermediate level of the ACTFL proficiency chart or higher
• AP Spanish Students

How can I use this product?

• Assign this reading for in-class, distance learning or for homework
• Ask students to discuss the information they interpret from the charts
• Use small group or whole-class instruction to compare and contrast the 2 schools
• Use the information students learn from the video to add to their understanding of cultural elements of the Spanish-speaking world
• Works well with Unit 5 of the AP curriculum!

What’s included in this product?

• One Google doc with 2 curated graphs related to Education Level and Salary in Spain and Mexico
• 5 questions about each graph
• Answer key

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AP Spanish Lesson Plans Unit 5 Factors That Influence Quality of Life

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AP Spanish Unit 5: Video Bundle Schools in the Spanish-Speaking World

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Looking for ways to introduce the different Spanish-speaking countries to your students? Easily incorporate the culture and history of Bolivia into any level of your Spanish classroom with 'All About Bolivia'!

In the story 'Todo sobre Bolivia', your students will learn about the geography of the country, population, special holidays, common food from the country, and MORE! This reading is a great way to introduce students to Bolivia while also practicing reading skills. You can reinforce important words and concepts with the included word search, then find out your students' understanding with a 10 question assessment!

This product contains:

• Printable story (with lines for students to write information)
• PDF version of the story -- great for projecting on the screen
• 10 question multiple choice assessment (with answer key)
• Activity ideas for speaking, writing, and drawing
• Word Search with key vocabulary from the story

These stories work well for ...

• partner or small group activities
• an integrated performance assessment (IPA)
• no-prep sub plans
• large group read-aloud

Find more stories about all Spanish-speaking countries here!

Tired of grading an entire class of dry Spanish research projects? With Discover Madrid, your students will research one of 24 famous landmarks in Madrid, create captivating travel videos, present their videos to the class, and vote to select the top 3 tourist destinations. This unique project combines research, creativity, presentation skills, and cultural understanding, offering an interactive and fun learning experience for your students. And for you? You will have busy students for a week, individualized projects, and easy grading!

Depending on language level, projects can be completed in Spanish or English. Get ready to ignite a passion for Spanish language and culture in your classroom one monument at a time!

Key Features of the Project:

1. Real-Life Application: This project taps into the real-life context of travel, allowing students to explore 24 famous monuments in Madrid, Spain and practice language skills in a meaningful way.
2. Research and Inquiry: Students conduct research on a specific landmark Madrid, enhancing their critical thinking and information-gathering abilities.
3. Cultural Awareness: The project fosters cultural understanding as students delve into the significance of each landmark within the rich context of Spanish culture and history. Sample monuments include La Plaza Mayor, Atocha, La Gran Via, El Palacio Real and more.
4. Creative Expression: Students showcase their creativity by producing engaging travel videos, enhancing their communication and storytelling abilities.
5. Collaboration and Peer Learning: Students present their videos to the class, encouraging peer learning, active listening, and cross-cultural appreciation.
6. Competitive Element: The voting aspect adds an element of friendly competition, fueling excitement and motivation in the classroom.
7. Language Proficiency (Optional depending on level): Through script creation, video production, and oral presentations, students sharpen their language skills in writing, speaking, and listening.

Project Includes detailed notes to teacher with implementation schedule, list of 24 landmarks to assign, project instruction sheet for students, storyboard templates, guided presentation notes with voting sheets for presentations and grading rubric.

Project works well for any level of upper school Spanish (Foundations of Spanish, Spanish Exploratory, Middle School Spanish, Spanish I, II, III, IV, and can even be modified for AP Spanish),

Let's embark on this enriching virtual field trip to Madrid together!

Are you looking for a fun and highly engaging game for your Spanish students? Play alphabet bingo! All you need is one bingo sheet per student and items to mark their board (such as pieces of paper or beans). You call out terms from the Call List included with the game and your students race to be the first to get a bingo. The Call List includes all the letters and digraphs from the bingo boards. This awesome Bingo game includes 28 classroom "survival" phrases on 32 different game boards (both color and black-and-white versions are included for a total of 64 boards).

This bingo game goes great with my Yo tengo, ¿Quién tiene...? game for classroom "survival" phrases.

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