8th Grade Hispanic Heritage Month Lesson (by date, oldest first)

A Million Miles Away Movie Guide and Cultural Exploration

This is more than just a movie guide this is a Complete Cultural Exploration.

Includes a Before you Watch Reading that includes the topics

of Symbolism, Michoacan, Music choice, Artists of choice for the film and relevance.

In order for students to truly appreciate the film it is crucial that they also have some background information and that they have a solid understanding of the music and cultural representations that will appear in the film.

Next there are 3 types of questioning Level A, B, C.

A is for lower level B mid and Level C is for higher levels.

There is also a coloring page for fun.

Includes answers.

Take your students to Colombia without leaving the classroom!

This Field Trip is in SPANISH.

As part of my Game Based Learning I have created these virtual field trips that can easily be accessed and navigated.

Clickable icons and amazing visuals.

Students access Interactive lesson that also holds a self-grading quiz.

Students fill-in a packet as they navigate through the lesson.

☀️ENGLISH AND SPANISH GUIDE AND FIELD TRIP☀️

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⭐FUN

⭐CREATIVE

⭐ENGAGING

⭐ONE-OF-A-KIND

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Esta lección se enfoca en los afro mexicanos y está en ESPAÑOL. Esta lección es interactiva e incluye: videos página para colorear cuestionario datos guías de video

✏️AMIGABLE PARA SUBTÍTULOS

⭐NO SE REQUIERE PREPARACIÓN

⭐Todo lo que necesitas está incluido

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Creo en el Aprendizaje Basado en Juegos y en el Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos en el aula. Este paquete es parte de mi Programa de Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos.

This lesson focuses on Afro Mexicans, the lesson is in SPANISH.

This lesson is interactive and includes:

• videos
• coloring page
• quiz
• facts
• video guides

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I believe in Game Based Learning and Project Based Learning in the classroom. This bundle is part of my PBL Program.

Have you been looking for a fun and educational way to engage your students? My lessons use the Game-Base and Project-Base Models and are guaranteed to hook your students from the very start!

Easy-to-use

Engaging

Authentic

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Perfect Sub Plans for English or Spanish classes.

Make your sub plans matter!✏️

☀️What's Inside?

• Description and example of the famous painting "Las Meninas."
• Activity for Las Meninas
• Bio of Diego Velasquez
• The Art of Hispanic Art Worksheet
• A Warm-up Activity
• A Cheat Sheet for Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park by Diego Rivera
• An Activity to identify symbolism of the famous artwork.
• Word Search
• 3 Art Critic Activities

⭐SPANISH VERSION

⭐ENGLISH VERSION

✏️Authentic

Bring the captivating world of legends to your Spanish classroom with this comprehensive Legends Project. Perfect for exploring Spanish-speaking cultures, this project helps students learn about famous legends from different countries, while developing critical skills in identifying themes, understanding story elements, and honing their writing.

What’s Included:

• Legend Sign-Up Sheet: A pre-made sign-up list featuring suggested legends from various Spanish-speaking countries, making it easy to assign diverse topics.
• 4 Interactive Activities: Designed to deepen students' understanding, these activities guide them through analyzing themes, recognizing story characteristics, and exploring cultural significance.
• Rubric for Assessment: Clear and detailed, this rubric provides guidelines for evaluation to help students focus on essential elements.
• Warm-Up Page: A perfect introduction to legends, where students review cultural background and build anticipation.
• Characteristics Identification Page: An engaging activity that invites students to explore and document key features of legends.

This Spanish legends project is ideal for language practice, cultural enrichment, and reinforcing Spanish reading comprehension. With everything from printable worksheets to project rubrics, this resource offers a fun, educational experience that’s both engaging and easy to use!

Perfect for Spanish Teachers Seeking:

• Cultural exploration in the classroom
• Interactive Spanish projects
• High-quality Spanish teaching materials
• Creative Spanish writing activities

Looking for a lesson on LOS TARAHUMARAS (RARAMURIS)?

⭐I have created this mini-lesson to teach students about this beautiful group.

Includes Movie guide for Netflix documentary:

Lorena la Pies ligeros, in both English and Spanish.

Includes a Short Questionnaire with answers

☀️A Current Event of the Tarahumaras and the History of the Raramuri.

⭐NO PREP NEEDED

Buscas una lección sobre LOS TARAHUMARAS (RARAMURIS)?

He creado esta mini-lección para enseñar a los estudiantes sobre este hermoso grupo.

Incluye una guía de película para el documental de Netflix:

Lorena la Pies ligeros, en inglés y español.

✏️Authentic

Incluye un cuestionario corto con respuestas.

☀️Un evento actual de los Tarahumaras y la historia de los Rarámuris.

Peru Field Trip

Take your students to Peru without leaving the classroom!

This Field Trip is in SPANISH.

As part of my Game Based Learning I have created these virtual field trips that can easily be accessed and navigated.

Clickable icons and amazing visuals.

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• NO PREP NEEDED
• INTERACTIVE
• FUN
• CREATIVE
• ENGAGING
• ONE-OF-A-KIND

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El Chocolate en México

• Vocabulario Esencial
• Cuestionario
• Mapa conceptual
• Idea Principal
• Hagamos Chocolate Proyecto
• Recetas con chocolate Templates

A unique lesson that includes a project for students. Learn about the History of Chocolate in a fun and authentic way!

⭐NO PREP NEEDED

100% in Spanish.

A fun Christmas activity for the classroom!

A variety of activities:

⭐Challenge 1: Identify popular Christmas Icons in Mexico

⭐Challenge 2: Answer questions from reading

⭐Challenge 3: Answer questions from reading

⭐Challenge 4: Read a Recipe and re-create it.

⭐Challenge 5: Word Search

⭐Challenge 6: Read about La Roscas de Reyes and about el día de los reyes

⭐Bonus Challenge: Short-Answer questions for students needing a challenge or extra work.

✏️Teachers can pass out (after student is done with the challenge) the secret icon that comes with each challenge, or have students write/draw it on the answer sheet.

This is a fun activity that will expose students to Las Posadas, Aguinaldos, el ponche navideño and las piñatas...and many other cultural pieces that make up the Christmas time in Mexico.

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Una divertida actividad navideña para el aula. Una variedad de actividades: Desafío 1: Identificar íconos navideños populares en México. Desafío 2: Responder preguntas a partir de la lectura. Desafío 3: Responder preguntas a partir de la lectura. Desafío 4: Leer una receta y recrearla. Desafío 5: Sopa de letras. Desafío 6: Leer sobre La Rosca de Reyes y sobre el Día de los Reyes. Desafío adicional: Preguntas de respuesta corta para estudiantes que necesiten un desafío o trabajo extra.
Los maestros pueden entregar (después de que el estudiante haya completado el desafío) el ícono secreto que viene con cada desafío, o pueden hacer que los estudiantes lo escriban/dibujen en la hoja de respuestas.
Esta es una actividad divertida que expondrá a los estudiantes a Las Posadas, Aguinaldos, el ponche navideño y las piñatas... y muchas otras piezas culturales que conforman la época navideña en México.

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Learn about the INCAS in a super cool way.

A LESSON ABOUT THE INCAS

An interactive lesson that will hook every student!

Students will self-navigate through the lesson

There is a draggable activity and a quiz at the end.

Students can go back to the slides at any moment.

This lesson is 100% in English.

Includes a short video with guided questions.

Attached are the responses to the questions for teachers to see.

✏️ ⭐NO PREP NEEDED

Students receive automatic answers when submitting quiz.

Aprende sobre los INCAS de una manera súper genial. ¡Una lección interactiva que enganchará a cada estudiante! Los estudiantes se autonavegarán a través de la lección.
Hay una actividad de arrastrar y soltar y un cuestionario al final. Los estudiantes pueden regresar a las diapositivas en cualquier momento. Esta lección está 100% en inglés. Incluye un video corto con preguntas guiadas. Adjuntas están las respuestas a las preguntas para que los maestros las vean.

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Los Milagros Project

Is part of my Hispanohablantes Projects.

These Projects are perfect to connect with students and have them master

culture and writing.

Super easy to create and can be hung around the classroom.

Includes:

• Templates for the Milagritos
• Examples
• Includes a Teacher guide of what these are
• Includes idea of how they can be used for Thanksgiving.
• Rubric

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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.

Bundle that includes:

Hispanos Notable Actividades y Posters

Hispanic Icons Loteria Style

Hispanic Culture Jeopardy

Hispanic Boho Posters

Hispanas Notables Lectura

AFROLATINOS Collaborative Posters

Afromexicanos Unidad

Paquete Creciente de Excursiones Virtuales

Todas las excursiones son completamente en español.

Countries:

Mexico - focuses on Mexico City

Peru

Argentina

Puerto Rico

Colombia

Costa Rica...coming soon

Spain... coming soon

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Spanish 1 Gamify your Classroom Bundle

1.Los Verbos Granja Quiz

2. Escape Room Granja Preposiciones

3. Kitchen Escape Room Present Tense

4. Museo Present Tense Escape Room

5. Gender-specific Nouns GENIALLYLAND BREAK vivimos nosotros vivíamos

6. Ser and Estar La Prueba de los Dinosauros

7. Movie Awards Quiz- Las Preguntas

8. Saber vs conocer Breakout

9. Carnival Greetings Quiz

10. History of La Piñata Digital Reading and Decoder

11. Pancho Villa Reading Challenge

12. Games/Activities for the Spanish Classroom

13. Present Tense Mystery Picture 1

14. Present Tense Mystery Picture 2

15. Los Adjetivos CSI: Mystery

16. Present Tense Boom Cards

17. Spanish 1 Review Game

18. Greetings Quiz

19. Saber vs. Conocer Quiz

20. Usted Commands Escape Room

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Games can reinforce vocabulary, grammar, and language concepts. Repetition through games helps solidify learning.

Interactive and Fun!

Gamifying your Spanish class can bring numerous benefits and enhance the learning experience for students. Here are some reasons why you should consider gamifying your Spanish class:

1. Increased Engagement: Games are inherently engaging and can capture students' attention. Gamifying your Spanish class makes learning more enjoyable and encourages active participation.

2. Motivation: Games provide a sense of achievement and progress. Students are motivated to earn points, badges, or rewards, which can drive them to learn and improve their Spanish skills.

3. Interactive Learning: Gamification promotes interactive learning through challenges, quizzes, and interactive exercises. This hands-on approach helps students actively practice and apply their language skills.

4. Competition: Healthy competition can inspire students to excel. Leaderboards and challenges encourage students to strive for better performance, fostering a sense of achievement.

• Students will practice many Spanish One Concepts like: Greetings, Present Tense, Present Tense Stem changers, ser and estar, questions, nationalities, introductions to spanish class, adjectives, cultural units, saber vs. conocer, and much more! The excitement and engagement of games often lead to better information retention and recall, which is crucial for language learning.

• Students type in the password to play.

These games are perfect for sub-plans, reviews before a test, lesson-fillers, exit slips, homework, independent practice, warm-up!

Let your students discover their potential Spanish 1 Gamify your Classroom Bundle! Fun Guaranteed!!!

I believe in Game Based Learning and Project Based Learning in the classroom. This bundle is part of my PBL Program.

➡️PBL makes learning more engaging and relevant to students because they work on projects that interest and motivate them. It encourages active participation and a sense of ownership over their learning.

➡️PBL promotes teamwork and collaboration. Students work together on projects, which helps them develop communication and interpersonal skills.

❤ These projects will impact the dynamic in your classroom for a positive turn.

Many of these projects can be conducted alone or in groups.

SAVE 30% with this BUNDLE!

Bundle of Hispanic PROJECTS

A different approach to writing a story or working with leyendas.

These quick projects can be used for:

**⭐⭐**Sub-days

**⭐⭐**Homework

**⭐⭐**Extra Practice

**⭐⭐**Extra Credit

**⭐⭐**Cultural Enhancement in the classroom

**⭐⭐**Better student writing

**⭐⭐**Art Component

**⭐⭐**Advanced students that need a more hands-on activity

and so many other ways!

Easy-to-use, rubrics, examples, and versatile topics.

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Escape Rooms

⭐Engage your classroom with Escape Rooms!

The escape Rooms included in this bundle are the following:

Plays like a game no Prep Needed:

• La Familia
• Present Tense Conjugations
• Imperfect Tense
• Preposiciones
• Present Tense
• Gender Agreement
• Preterite Tense

✏️Printable or Teacher must Check-off answers:

• Mayan Treasure
• Navidad
• La independencia de los países Latinoamericanos

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Spanish Short Readings

Lower Levels

and Higher Level

Bundle

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Please Note that many of the short stories are my original stories as I am a Children's book writer :)

⭐No-Prep Needed

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Digital Reading Challenge

Make Reading Fun with these Reading Challenges.

Cultural Topics in the classroom are important, but let's make them more interesting with an awesome Secret Code or Message.

All activities can be done on Google Slides.

⭐️History of La Pinata

⭐️Celia Cruz

⭐️Day of the Dead

⭐️Las Posadas

⭐️⭐️Pancho Villa

⭐️Lucha Libre

⭐️Mariposas Monarca

⭐️Don Quijote de la Mancha are all included!

If any other Digital Challenges are created they will also be included in this bundle for free!

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This inquiry based lesson will vicariously draw your students into the lives, circumstances, and struggle for social justice as they engage in the analysis of three primary sources. Specifically, this resource will have students;

• Discuss and analyze the motivations and philosophy of César Chávez
• Understand the problems faced by farmworkers in California's central valley and beyond. 
• Analyze primary sources related to the meaning and context of the Chicano Rights Movement.

The primary sources include;

1. Photograph taken on December 19, 1969 outside of a Safeway supermarket in Seattle, WA (strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez)
2. Speech given by César Chavez to the Commonwealth Club of California on Sept 9, 1984.
3. Viva La Causa Documentary film- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. The film shows how thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the most exploited people in our country — the workers who put food on our tables.

Materials Include:

• Teacher Reference Guide
• Google (10) Slide Presentation
• Interactive Guided Notes Handout
• Economics Chart

If you liked this lesson see other related lessons here:

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• Unit BUNDLE- Reconstruction, Jim Crow & the KKK
• Jim Crow: Separate and Unequal
• Women's Suffrage: Iron Jawed Angels (Comparing Sources)
• Civil Rights Movements: Then and Today
• The Ku Klux Klan: The Past & Today
• Proposing a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• 'The Quotable Rebel' Activity: First Day of School