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AP Spanish Unit 6 Intro Resources to Start Global Challenges

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Unit 6 of AP® Spanish explores environmental, political and global challenges. Use these 5 resources to introduce the topic and get students interested and talking about it right away! Take away the stress of starting a new unit- you have everything you need to set the stage for this last unit!

First- the "Hook" activity! A Google Slides presentation with provocative images of different global challenges. In each slide, in the speaker notes, there is a speaking prompt the teacher can read to students. Use this as a turn and talk activity to involve everyone at once!

Next, a vocabulary list that introduces words that will be important to have for the unit to better understand the different sources students will examine in class. Included with this vocab list is a pre-made Quizlet for student practice!

Third, there are 2 vocab activities for students to practice using the new words. I usually assign these for homework, but they can be used as in class activities as well.

Last, your essential questions! Guide your unit with these questions.

All of these resources can be edited and customized to meet the needs of your students! You will find each resource linked on a Google Doc.

**These 5 resources are INCLUDED in the full unit 6 lesson plans. They are linked below if you want step-by-step daily plans with every activity you need (plus answer keys and rubrics) linked right in!

Who can use this product?

AP® Spanish students
Year 4 students studying global challenges

How Can I use this product?

I start the unit using these resources
I can post them all on Google Classroom (or other learning management system)
I can print the vocab list and homework activities if I choose
I can present the Google Slides "Hook" activity and the class discussion activity
You could use the Hook Activity as a personal response activity (written or oral) if you choose

What's included in this product?

It's a bundle of 5 resources linked onto one convenient Google Doc!
17-page Google Slides hook activity with images and turn and talk prompts
51 word vocab list (in Spanish and English) and included pre-made Quizlet
2 vocab practice activities (printable or digital)
Essential Questions to guide your unit

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AP Spanish El calentamiento global Article with questions and Goformative

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Environment

Spanish

$5.50

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The Global Challenges unit of AP Spanish® has many interesting contexts, including the environment. This digital and printable article talks about the effects of global warming in Antarctica, and explains the paradox of how rising temperatures actually cause more snow! Distance learners can complete this via a Google Doc or by doing the auto-graded goformative version. Students who prefer paper copies can have a print-out! Save time searching the net to find a good article, and save more time by letting goformative grade this for you! Another benefit to the goformative version is that students can see the article side by side with the questions, and the questions are embedded just where they can find the answer! It's a great scaffold for students still developing their reading comprehension skills!

This article is good for students who are ready for a challenge and/or who like science. It's a little longer than the other article I posted for this unit, but the embedded questions make this accessible for students!

Who can use this product?

Students in Year 4, 5 or AP®
Students studying the environment

How can I use this product?

Assign this article in class or for homework
Assign this article via Google classroom or other learning management platform, or print it out
Assign this article via Goformative (free for educators! All you need to do is create an account!)
Use this as a class activity or as a graded assessment
Let Goformative grade it for you!
Use this as one source of information for class discussions, debates or cultural comparisons

What's included in this product?

a 10-page Google doc article with link to internet source (the line-spacing in this article makes it seem very long. The questions are embedded within the article so students can find the answers easier.)
7 embedded questions on the Google doc (AP multiple choice style)
an answer key
A link to the Goformative version of this article and questions (which self-grades)
All parts of this product can be customized to suit your students' needs!

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✅Here is a shorter article about the different effects of global warming

-includes embedded questions and Goformative version too!

✅Here is a bundle of activities related to "la sobrepoblacion"!

✅Check out my money-saving bundle of 4 videos with accompanying questions about schools in the Spanish-speaking world!

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AP Spanish El cambio climatico Edpuzzle Podcast

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Earth Sciences

Environment

Spanish

$4.25

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Have you head the Notes in Spanish podcasts? Do you use Edpuzzle? For AP Spanish® Unit 6, I made an MP4 recording of the audio for the podcast about Climate Change, and uploaded it to Edpuzzle! I inserted multiple choice, auto-graded questions into the recording to help students to find the right spot in the podcast to find the answer. The auto-grading of Edpuzzle is not only a time-saver for teachers, but allows students to have feedback on what answers they got right or wrong!

If you've never heard the Notes in Spanish Podcasts before, here is some info!

From their website:

Who are we?

Ben Curtis and Marina Diez live in Madrid, Spain, and have been making Spanish-learning podcasts since 2005, with over 40 Million downloads since then.

We bring you real Spanish conversations on real-life topics, making you totally confident with your Spanish.

From me: Ben and Marina have Beginner and Intermediate level podcasts on a range of topics. I love listening to them! Ben is not a native speaker of Spanish, but Marina is! This married couple converses about every day, relevant topics, and helps students learn vocabulary and even slang expressions that are part of every day Spanish language!

Who can use this product:

Students at the Intermediate Level and higher
AP Spanish® students studying Climate Change

How can I use this product?

Assign this Edpuzzle to your students via Google Classroom or share the link with them
Use this resource as a listening comprehension practice or for a grade

What's included in this product?

A Google Doc with a link to the Edpuzzle version of the Notes in Spanish Intermediate #15 Cambio climatico podcast
11 auto-graded multiple choice questions

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Spanish Future Tense Speaking Tasks For Extempore

Environment

Spanish

Free

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Are you using Extempore to manage your Spanish students' speaking tasks? These 5 speaking activities focus on the future tense with the theme what life events will happen in the future. Using a Google Doc, this resource contains 5 links to ready-to-use Extempore speaking activities! Under each link in the Google Doc, there is a description of what each Extempore speaking task is like. (For example, some have picture prompts, some focus on present and future, and others ask students to tell a a story using connected sentences).

Who can use this product?

Students in year 2 and up
Students working on Intermediate Low proficiency level and up

How can I use this product?

Assign these speaking tasks throughout a unit focused on the future
These tasks work well with the theme of future events (including life events like graduation, college, marriage, jobs, moving, etc.)
Assess student progress using the included Speaking Assessment!

What's included in this product?

a 2-page Google doc containing 5 links to Extempore speaking activities and detailed descriptions of each task
4 speaking practices and 1 speaking assessment
1 speaking task focused on listening to an example before describing pictures
1 task asking students to talk about what will happen in certain seasons in the future
1 task with prompts based on video shorts (very short videos with no audio) where students are asked to narrate in the present and then the future
1 task with examples of basic speech, and students are asked to work in groups via Extempore Sync to improve the speech in 3 specific ways
1 speaking assessment giving students the opportunity to answer an open-ended prompt
a FREE BONUS resource to help students add sophistication to their sentences with connecting words, sequencing words and key time frame words
much more detail about each extempore speaking task is given in the google doc

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AP Spanish Retos Ambientales 2 videos with Viewing Guides and Ed puzzle

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AP Spanish® teachers: save time searching for the right video for your students! This Google Doc contains links to TWO YouTube videos and a viewing guides perfect for Unit 6: Los retos ambientales. One video has an auto-grading Edpuzzle version! The accompanying comprehension questions are digital for distance learners and printable for in-person learners, and they are customizable to make them just right for your students’ needs!

Have students watch these videos to get a sense of some of the problems we face with our environment. One video talks about 5 specific problems in Mexico, their causes and their consequences. It is a short video, but the narrator speaks rather fast. This resource comes with a comprehension guide in graphic organizer format, or you may choose to use the multiple choice Edpuzzle version. I find that the Edpuzzle version is a good scaffold to aid student comprehension because the questions can be inserted right after the information has been provided! This Edpuzzle is also auto-graded to save you time and to give students instant feedback! The second video is about what would happen if all the ice in the world were to melt. It talks about the possibilities and the human and animal consequences that would occur. This video is accompanied by short answer comprehension questions.

Of course, both viewing guides come with a teacher answer key, and all questions can be edited to suit your needs!

Environmental challenges is a great theme to explore as a Global Challenge, or as part of the Science and Technology Unit. These videos could be a great source for a debate as this topic can be controversial!

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 these videos and viewing guides for in-class or for homework
Ask students to discuss the information they heard about in the videos. Ask provocative questions and get students to play devil’s advocate to support the other side!
Use small group or whole-class instruction to discuss the bias in these videos
Use the information students learn from the videos as sources for students to use to debate whether or not these environmental challenges will really result in the consequences presented in the videos
Works well with Unit 4 or Unit 6 of the AP® curriculum!

What’s included in this product?

Two links to curated YouTube videos
Information about how long each video is
2 Google Docs with comprehension questions (one for each video, all questions in Spanish)
An answer key for each viewing guide
A link to the Edpuzzle version of the first video (auto-graded, multiple choice questions in Spanish)

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✅Ready for the AP Test? These How-To Google Slides presentations about the AP Open-Ended Responses section of the exam may help!

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AP Spanish Persuasive Paragraph Assessment with Study Guide and Rubric

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AP Spanish® teachers- here is a GREAT way to assess both content knowledge and either writing or speaking skill! This assessment can be digital or printable, formative or summative! It can serve as a good introduction to the argumentative essay or a faster way to assess persuasive writing than having students do a full argumentative AP®-style essay. Included in this resource is a student study guide explaining what their task is and some helpful do's and don'ts to writing persuasively!

Instead of an entire essay, students will write a concise paragraph defending a position related to a topic investigated in class. In order to do well, students must reference the sources they read, listened to, viewed and discussed in class. This task asks a question about climate change, but simply change out the question to make this assessment fit with any unit or context!

Who can use this product?

Advanced Spanish students (Year 4, 5 AP®)

How can I use this product?

Assign this assessment via Google Classroom (or other digital learning platform) or print this out to use it in paper form
Use this assessment as a writing or a speaking task
Change out the question to use and re-use this assessment
Grade this as a formal or informal assessment (formative or summative)
Use this as a homework assignment or a class activity
Use this as a lead-in to writing an entire argumentative essay
Assess content knowledge as well ask language proficiency

What's included in this product?

a page of Teacher Notes with helpful hints about using this resource
a study guide for students including the do's and don'ts of writing persuasively
an assessment question related to climate change (easily changed or edited to fit your unit or context)
a grading rubric

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AP Spanish Argumentative Essay: Graphic Organizer for Student Practice

2 articles with comprehension questions and GoFormative version: Environmental Challenges

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Spanish Camino de Santiago Google Slides™ Reading, Writing, Conversation

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Writing-Essays

Environment

Spanish

$3.00

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El Camino de Santiago is one of the most interesting cultural features of Spain! This interactive Google Slides Presentation designed to be presented in Spanish uses beautiful images and Pear Deck to engage Spanish students in a lesson about what the Camino is and why different people make the trek. Slides contain speaker notes to guide you in what to tell students about El Camino. The presentation and interactive student questions are designed to be in Spanish, but it is easily editable if you would like to change it to English!

In addition to the presentation, there are 4 activity suggestions. First is a 3-page article about El Camino de Santiago written in Spanish. Next, I suggest showing a portion of the movie “The Way” with Martin Sheen. Unfortunately, this movie is only in English, which is why I only show a portion of it. But the scenery and the message of the movie are so worth it!! After students see a portion of the movie, there are group discussion questions about the movie included. I linked in my Extempore activity under the written questions- feel free to email me if you would like to know more about that website! Last, I have students write the next scene of the movie! They must demonstrate the spirit of El Camino and some elements of what they’ve learned about El Camino in their writing.

This is a great cultural activity for more advanced Spanish students, and it goes perfectly with the AP Unit 5: Factors that Influence our Quality of Life!

Who can use this product:

It’s designed for students in Years 4 and 5 and/or AP (but can be modified if you would like)

How can I use this product?

The entire activity is digital and easy to assign/present in Google Classroom (or other learning management platform)
This activity can also be presented to an in-person class, or a hybrid class
The presentation and reading can be used alone
If you want to show the movie The Way, the discussion questions and partner writing assignment go nicely with that!

What’s included in this product?

A 15-slide Google Slides presentation with interactive Peardeck questions. (Don’t use Peardeck? No problem- just ask the question to the class and have some students answer before moving to the next slide!)
Speaker notes with all slides
A Google Doc article about El Camino de Santiago (in Spanish)
A Google Doc with class/small group discussion questions about the movie The Way (these are meant to help them think about the movie in preparation for their writing assignment)
A google doc writing assignment with rubric (can be used for small groups, partners or individual students)

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AP Spanish Efecto del calentamiento global Article with Questions Goformative

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Spanish

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The Global Challenges unit of AP Spanish® has many interesting contexts, including the environment. This digital and printable article talks about the effects of global warming all around the world. Students can complete this via a Google Doc or by doing the auto-graded goformative version. Students who prefer paper copies can have a print-out! Save time searching the net to find a good article, and save more time by letting goformative grade this for you! Another benefit to the goformative version is that students can see the article side by side with the questions, and the questions are embedded just where they can find the answer! It's a great scaffold for students still developing their reading comprehension skills!

Who can use this product?

Students in Year 4, 5 or AP®
Students studying the environment

How can I use this product?

Assign this article in class or for homework
Assign this article via Google classroom or other learning management platform, or print it out
Assign this article via Goformative (free for educators! All you need to do is create an account!)
Use this as a class activity or as a graded assessment
Let Goformative grade it for you!
Use this as one source of information for class discussions, debates or cultural comparisons

What's included in this product?

a 4-page Google doc article with link to internet source
6 embedded questions on the Google doc (AP multiple choice style)
A link to the Goformative version of this article and questions (which self-grades)
All parts of this product can be customized to suit your students' needs!

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Spanish Scenario Task Cards Bundle of 17 Themes for Speaking & Writing

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Spanish

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These Spanish Scenario Task Cards are designed to increase skill and confidence with creative speaking and writing! Scenario Task Cards are a great, NO PREP way to get your Spanish 2, 3 and 4 and even AP Spanish students speaking or writing every day! They have open-ended prompts for students to use to tell a story orally or on paper. (These are generic enough to be used with any curriculum!)

First, this bundle includes 17 different themes! Consider your daily warm-up for the year DONE with no prep!

There are 20 different scenarios per theme which give students an idea of what to talk about in a story that they make up. Each set of scenario cards come in 3 versions! First, a large scale digital version that can be displayed for the class. (Perfect for a warm-up!) The other version is printable (4 cards per page) and comes in both black and white and an attractive color version.

Some cards provide helpful vocab that students may need to discuss the scenario. Some sets come with a vocab list that can be printed (maybe laminated) so that students can integrate related vocabulary that they may not know already.

These situation task cards feature scenarios perfect for practicing talking about many of the life events that are common to teens, and common to most Spanish curriculum and Seal of Biliteracy tests. The prompts ask students to talk about themselves and others in present, past and future time frames. The prompts are in English. Google Slides can be modified if you need to change something to meet your students’ needs!

Themes:

-Childhood -Clothing and Shopping

-Travel -Accidents and Injuries

-Present -Hobbies and Free Time

-Past -Jobs and Employment

-Future -Giving Advice

-Spring -Daily Life

-Fall -The Environment

-Winter -Asking Questions

-Spring

Bonus! Also included is a peer feedback sheet and a self-assessment sheet!

Who can use this product?

Appropriate for students in Spanish 2, 3, 4 and 5
Novice High and up

How can I use this product?

Teacher notes for the multiple ways to use these are included in the slides!
Pair students and have them take turns telling stories based on their scenario
Ask students to give peer feedback or self-assess
Display task cards on your Smartboard for the class. Have one partner make up a story. Set a timer and challenge them to try to talk the entire time! Change the slide and have the other partner take a turn!
Use these task cards as multiple versions of a speaking assessment. This allows for student choice and/or prevents students sharing the exact task for advance preparation.
These task cards can also be used for writing prompts or assessments!
Ask students to peer or self-assess using the included forms

What’s included in this product?

Teacher instructions and ideas for how to use these Situation Task Cards
17 Sets of Task Cards (See topics above) 340 Scenarios to discuss/write about!
Each set comes with:
- Version 1: 20 digital slides to be presented to the class
- Version 2: 20 printable cards in an attractive color
- Version 3: 20 printable cards in black and white
- Peer Feedback document
- Self-Assessment document
Vocab List with some of the sets (ex: Jobs, Spring, etc.)
All text in this resource can be edited!

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AP Spanish Unit Intro Activities Bundle 5 Resources To Start Each New Unit

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AP Spanish Language and Culture® is a challenging course to teach! This bundle of unit intro activities will help get your unit started each time, so you can finish planning other activities or tie up correcting from the previous unit! Essential Questions, Vocabulary, Vocab Practices and a Hook Activity are included for all 6 units!

It’s important to grab your students’ attention right away and get them excited about the new theme! Each set of intro activities includes a “Hook Activity” that introduces the theme in a thought-provoking, teen-friendly way!

Each vocab list has a list of words that will be helpful to get through the unit, and has a Quizlet to help students practice. Each unit also has 2 vocab practice activities to help students learn the new words in context.

The Essential Questions guide the work for the unit and give teachers a place to start when thinking about how to go through the unit with students.

And of course, if you need even more breathing room, teachers can purchase theentire unit, or the whole year curriculum, also linked below!

Who can use this product?

AP Spanish Language and Culture students

How can I use this product?

Hook your students with the first activity
Present Essential Questions
Introduce vocabulary
Start reinforcing new vocabulary

What’s included in this product?

6 AP Unit themes each have
- Essential Questions
- Hook Activity
- Vocabulary List
- Pre-made Quizlet for new vocab
- 2 vocabulary practices (homework or classwork)

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AP Spanish Environmental Challenges Bundle

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Want to discuss environmental challenges with your AP Spanish® students? Unit 6, Environmental, Political and Social Challenges is a perfect time! This bundle includes activities for reading, writing and listening comprehension as well as an assessment!

Teachers can assess what students understand quickly by using the self-checking Formative and Edpuzzle questions that go with the articles and videos. Students can practice answering open-ended questions with other articles and teachers have an answer key to refer to. Last, the persuasive paragraph allows teachers to do an interim assessment that can be graded quickly!

Who can use this product?

AP Spanish® students

How can I use this product?

Use this as a mini unit within Unit 6
Activities can be done in class or assigned as homework

What’s included in this product?

2 articles about global warming with Formative versions (for auto-correcting)
Google Docs copy of the above articles with embedded AP-style MCQ questions
2 articles (about Corals and Electronic Garbage) with questions (Plus teacher answer key)
A podcast in Edpuzzle form with auto-correcting questions
2 videos with questions + Teacher answer key
Edpuzzle version with auto-graded questions for one of the above videos
A persuasive paragraph assessment with rubric
Study guide for students, with rubric included

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AP Spanish End of Year Bundle

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