Less than $5 Latinx Studies Resources (by date, latest first)

Celebrate Mexican history and culture with this engaging 90-minute classroom lesson about Cinco de Mayo! Using a short, informative video by History channel, students will learn the true story behind May 5th, exploring key historical events like the Battle of Puebla, the role of General Ignacio Zaragoza, and the resistance against French invasion.

This lesson clears up common misconceptions about the holiday and dives into important vocabulary, critical thinking, and creative writing. A printable student worksheet is included with a variety of activities:

✔️ Vocabulary matching
✔️ Comprehension questions
✔️ Timeline sorting
✔️ Map labeling
✔️ Diary-style creative writing

An answer key is provided for easy grading. This resource is ideal for Grades 4–8, Social Studies, History, or ESL classes, and is perfect for cultural celebration weeks or May-themed lessons.

Engage Students in the Fascinating World of the Inca Empire with this Interactive Reading Assignment!

Take your students on a journey through the rich history and culture of the Inca Empire with this ready-to-use interactive reading assignment. Perfect for your middle school and high school world history classes, this resource immerses students in one of the most powerful and advanced civilizations in the Americas, all while reinforcing critical reading comprehension and analytical skills.

What’s Included:

• Informative Reading Passage: A detailed, multi-paragraph passage that covers key aspects of the Inca Empire, including their rise to power, government structure, societal roles, achievements, and the impact of Spanish conquest.
• Comprehension and Analysis Questions: Thought-provoking questions that challenge students to recall key facts and think critically about the Inca civilization’s influence on history.
• Key Terms and Definitions: Important vocabulary words bolded throughout the text with clear definitions to enhance student understanding.
• Interactive Elements: Encourage student engagement with activities like mapping the empire’s geography, exploring the significance of Incan engineering, and analyzing primary sources.

Key Features:

• Aligned with World History Topics: This assignment ties directly into your world history curriculum, making it a seamless addition to lessons on pre-Columbian civilizations or global empires.
• Engages Critical Thinking: Students will go beyond simple fact recall, diving into higher-order thinking with questions that prompt analysis, comparison, and historical perspective.
• No Prep Needed: Simply print or upload to your learning platform, and your students are ready to explore the legacy of the Inca Empire.
• Suitable for Multiple Learning Styles: Visual learners will appreciate the maps and images, while textual learners can dive deep into the reading and analysis.
• Versatile Use: Ideal for classwork, homework, distance learning, or even as a substitute teacher resource.

How It Works:

Students will read through a detailed passage on the Inca Empire, complete comprehension questions, and engage with interactive activities that foster a deeper understanding of this significant historical era.

Bring the history of the Inca Empire to life in your classroom with this engaging, no-prep Interactive World History Reading Assignment!

Dive into the World of the Aztec Empire with this Interactive World History Reading Assignment!

This comprehensive Aztec Empire reading assignment provides an in-depth exploration of Aztec society, culture, religion, and achievements, perfect for middle and high school world history students. Crafted to engage students in learning about the fascinating aspects of Aztec life, this resource combines engaging reading material with thought-provoking comprehension questions to deepen historical understanding.

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to review key terms relating to life in the early Americas! Answer Keys included!

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Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to review key terms relating to Latin American Revolutions! Answer Keys included!

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Engage students with this interactive reading assignment that details the history, culture, and achievements of the Maya civilization! Perfect for virtual learning or independent work! Have students follow along while teaching the material, or assign a copy to each student on Google Classroom as an assignment!

⭐️ Looking for an exciting, engaging, and beautiful way to showcase what your students are learning about? ⭐️

Try out our collaborative art project: the "Sí, se puede" Collaborative Mural Poster! Engage students as artists, inviting them to contribute to a masterpiece that pays tribute to the legacy and influence of Dolores Huerta and César Chávez. This unique product transforms any BULLETIN BOARD or DOOR into a vibrant work of collective expression, capturing the spirit of "Sí, se puede" – the rallying cry for equality and justice. Perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month or recognizing influential Latinos!

Key Features:

✨ Collaborative Masterpiece: Ignite a sense of unity and empowerment as students collaborate to bring the theme of "Sí, se puede" to life. Each student colors a piece of the poster, contributing to the overall beauty of the mural.

✨ Mindful Coloring Background: The mural includes a mindful coloring background, encouraging students to relax and express themselves through intricate designs while reflecting on the powerful message of "Sí, se puede."

✨ Educational Significance: Beyond the artistic aspect, this project has educational value, encouraging communication, cooperation, and the development of fine motor skills.

✨ Elevating Display: Once completed, proudly showcase the collaborative "Sí, se puede" mural in classrooms, hallways, or any communal area. The poster serves as a symbol of unity and creativity, leaving a lasting impression on both participants and observers.

✨ Customizable Options: Personalize your product by selecting a poster size that suits your space and class size.

• 25 pieces mural is ~40" wide x ~50" tall
• 36 pieces mural is ~48" wide x ~60" tall

⭐️ Pro-Tip: To make a smaller puzzle, use your printer or copier's "combine" feature and print 2 pages on one paper!

How It Works:

1. Distribute Sections: Hand out individual pieces of the mural to students.
2. Color Away: Students color their section of the poster. Encourage creativity and self-expression as they bring their unique touch to the overall composition.
3. Assemble the Masterpiece: Once all sections are completed, assemble the pieces to reveal the stunning collaborative mural. Watch as the individual contributions seamlessly come together to form a cohesive work of art, celebrating the legacy of Dolores Huerta and César Chávez.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with this meaningful and engaging art project, and let your students' creativity shine with the "Sí, se puede" Collaborative Mural Poster!

This is a nonfiction biographical reading passage about Rigoberta Menchú as a Latina Changemaker and a Female Leader. Students can use this as a jumping off point for a research project or for Hispanic Heritage Month and Women's History Month.

DIFFERENTIATED LEVELS FOR ALL LEARNERS

- Early elementary (1-3)

- Upper elementary (4-6)

- Complex Readers (7-12)

*Each newsletter is 2 pages.

Information on...

➡️ Early Life

➡️ Career

➡️ Interesting Facts

➡️ Influence

INCLUDED- Reading Comprehension Questions! Differentiated and can be used with any reading passage about an influential female leader. Perfect for close reading!

• Colored and black-line version
• Reading comprehension questions for early elementary (1-3) and separate worksheet for upper elementary (4-6)

⭐️ Looking for an excited, engaging, and beautiful way to showcase what your students are learning about? ⭐️

Try out our collaborative art project: the "Selena Quintanilla" Collaborative Mural Poster! Engage students as artists, inviting them to contribute to a larger masterpiece that pays tribute to the music and legacy of Selena Quintanilla. This unique product transforms any BULLETIN BOARD or DOOR into a vibrant work of collective expression, capturing the spirit of Selena Quintanilla's impactful words and life. Perfect for Women's History Month or Hispanic Heritage Month!

Key Features:

✨ Collaborative Masterpiece: Ignite a sense of unity and empowerment as students collaborate to bring the theme of "Selena Quintanilla" to life. Each participant colors a piece of the poster, contributing to the overall beauty of the mural that reflects Selena Quintanilla's enduring influence.

✨ Unleash Creativity: With different sections to color, students have the freedom to explore their artistic instincts, experimenting with colors, patterns, and styles while conveying the strength and grace of Selena Quintanilla's legacy.

✨ Educational Significance: Beyond the artistic aspect, this project has educational value, encouraging communication, cooperation, and the development of fine motor skills.

✨ Elevating Display: Once completed, proudly showcase the collaborative "Selena Quintanilla" mural in classrooms, hallways, or any communal area. The poster serves as a symbol of unity and creativity, leaving a lasting impression on both participants and observers.

✨ Customizable Options: Personalize your product by selecting a poster size that suits your space and class size. 25 pieces mural is ~40" wide x ~50" tall 36 pieces mural is ~48" wide x ~60" tall

⭐️Pro-Tip⭐️ To make a smaller puzzle- use your printer or copiers "combine" feature and print 2 pages on one paper! Pre-colored option available as well! Help guide students toward color choice for a more comprehensive look!

How It Works:

1. Distribute Sections: Hand out individual sections of the mural to students.
2. Color Away: Students color their section of the poster. Encourage creativity and self-expression as they bring their unique touch to the overall composition.
3. Assemble the Masterpiece: Once all sections are completed, assemble the pieces to reveal the stunning collaborative mural. Watch as the individual contributions seamlessly come together to form a cohesive work of art, celebrating the legacy of Selena Quintanilla.

6 videos que hablan del Racismo que se vive en Latinoamérica.

¿Buscas videos que se enfoquen en temas importantes y difíciles de explicar? Mi producto contiene una compilación de videos que enseñan acerca de este tema.

¿Buscas videos que se enfoquen en temas importantes y difíciles de explicar? Mi producto contiene una compilación de videos que enseñan acerca de la Apropiación Cultural.

A fun approach for Day of the Dead.

It's an easy Escape Room that contains various tasks for students.

Middle School-High school level appropriate.

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

Inside is a Self-checking quiz of Latin-American countries plus a printable activity for students to fill-in.

❤️Looking for a fun way to encourage your students to read more books? This printable bookmark growing bundle includes both full color and black and white designs! Students will love choosing their favorite bookmark or coloring their own!

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✏️Great for literacy centers, indoor recess, early finishers, art centers, rewards, gifts, enrichment activities, holiday parties and more!

✏️ Perfect for any grade level!

✏️Students can personalize and express their creativity by coloring their own bookmark.

✏️Black & white bookmarks can be completed in a whole group, or small group setting, with partners, in centers, or independently!

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⭐️All bookmarks are low prep! Simply print onto cardstock paper and cut! If desired, you can also laminate for extra durability, hole punch the top and add a ribbon to peek out of books!

⭐️Check out each resource for more details!

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✅ Includes:

☑ Safari bookmarks

☑ Hispanic Heritage bookmarks

☑ Martin Luther King Jr. bookmarks

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This resource pairs well with:

Reading Activities Growing Bundle

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❤️Looking for engaging, cultural activities to help students express creativity, while celebrating Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and Latin American traditions? Your students will love using these differentiated English and Spanish vocabulary coloring / writing pages to learn how Day of the Dead is celebrated!

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✏️Practice fine motor, handwriting, and art skills with these printable, clean, coloring book pages (85 unique pages per set - English/Spanish)!

✏️Each vocabulary word (28 words) comes with 3 differentiated pages to help your learner practice vocabulary, while writing, tracing, and coloring!

✏️Perfect for your Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade or ELL/ESL students!

✏️Includes cover pages to create a Day of the Dead booklet!

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⭐️Great for centers (literacy, writing, art), Day of the Dead parties, independent work, morning work, partner work, indoor recess, sub tub, intervention programs and more!

⭐️This resource will save you time! Simply print the pages most appropriate for your students' individual needs and you are ready to go!

⭐️Check out the preview and video preview for a sneak peek!

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✅Each vocabulary word includes 3 differentiated pages: (84 pgs. in total x 2 sets)

☑ Coloring page with picture and colorable vocabulary word (1 page)

☑ Coloring page with picture and traceable vocabulary word (1 page)

☑ Coloring page with picture and writeable vocabulary word (1 page)

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✅Vocabulary included: (28)

☑ altar / el altar

☑ angel / un ángel

☑ bread of the dead / el pan de muerto

☑ candied pumpkin / la calabaza en tacha

☑ candle / la vela

☑ candy / los dulces

☑ caramel flan / el flan de caramelo

☑ coffin / un ataúd

☑ cross / la cruz

☑ elegant skeleton / la catrina

☑ empanadas / los empanadas

☑ flowers / las flores

☑ gravestone / la lápida

☑ hot corn beverage / el atole

☑ incense / el copal

☑ mask / una careta

☑ Mexico / México

☑ monarch butterfly / una monarca

☑ orange / la naranja

☑ paper banner / el papel picado

☑ portrait / el retrato

☑ sauce / el mole

☑ skeleton / un esqueleto

☑ stew / el pozole

☑ sugar skull / la calavera de azúcar

☑ sweet bread / el pan dulce conchas

☑ sweet rice milk drink / la horchata

☑ tamales / los tamales

✅ Bonus: (10 pages)

☑ Cover pages (2 pages)

☑ Cultural guide (1 page)

☑ Vocabulary definitions (3 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Table of contents (3 pages)

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⭐️These coloring pages are perfect for:

• literacy centers
• indoor recess
• end of year activities
• writing / story prompts
• morning work
• fine motor skills work
• early finishers
• Day of the Dead parties
• Latin Heritage parties
• snack time
• coloring book gift
• homework packets
• open house events
• substitute teacher folders
• rewards
• art centers
• watercolor painting
• story starters
• early morning students

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⭐️Looking for more Day of the Dead activities?

Day of the Dead Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for Hispanic Heritage activities?

Hispanic Heritage Month Growing Bundle

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❤️ Teacher Tips:

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❤️Celebrate National American Hispanic Heritage Month while encouraging your students to read with these fun, printable bookmarks! They come in 14 unique designs (full color or printer friendly black and white)!

❤️Use this activity as an opportunity to discuss the importance of Hispanic Heritage Month with your students!

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✏️ Great for any grade level!

✏️Students can personalize and express their creativity by coloring their own bookmark.

✏️Black & white bookmarks can be completed in a whole group, or small group setting, with partners, in centers, or independently!

✏️Great for literacy centers, small groups, morning work, partner work, indoor recess, early finishers, art centers, rewards, gifts, sub tub, Hispanic Heritage Month parties, intervention programs and more!

✏️A perfect addition to your Hispanic Heritage Month unit or to celebrate throughout the year!

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⭐️These bookmarks are low prep! Just print onto cardstock paper and cut! If desired, you can also laminate for extra durability, hole punch the top and add a ribbon to peek out of books!

⭐️Check out the thumbnails for a look at all bookmark designs!

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✅ Each bookmark design includes 4x per page: (14 pages)

✅ Bonus:

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ B&W set with blank background (14 pages)

☑ B&W set with background design (14 pages)

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⭐️Looking for more Hispanic Heritage activities?

Hispanic Heritage Month Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for Cinco de Mayo activities?

Cinco de Mayo Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for Day of the Dead activities?

Day of the Dead Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for Feliz Navidad activities?

Feliz Navidad Growing Bundle

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❤️Looking for a fun and creative way to celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and Hispanic Heritage in your classroom this October? Your students will love learning about this important holiday and how it is celebrated, while making beautiful alebrije (calavera, sugar skull) writing craft projects!

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✏️Great to use in Spanish classrooms! Writing projects can be written in English or Spanish.

✏️Day of the Dead writing prompts allow your student to choose from a variety of topics and writing types (expository, descriptive, persuasive, narrative, poetry etc.)!

✏️Graphic organizers encourage students to brainstorm their ideas before writing!

✏️Use the cultural guide (included) to teach (social studies / history) about Día de los Muertos and the activities traditionally practiced during the celebration.

✏️Crafts are differentiated! Students can color or decorate their craft, choose from a variety of writing prompts, and writing sheet options (dotted vs. single lines etc.)

✏️Use the arts and craft writing projects (sugar skull, cat, or dog) to meaningfully decorate your bulletin board, classroom, or hallway, while displaying your students' festive creativity!

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⭐️Great for centers (literacy, writing, art), Day of the Dead parties, whole group lessons, independent work, partner work, indoor recess, sub tub, intervention programs and more!

⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and go!

⭐️Create a writing bulletin board, door, or hallway by displaying craftivities!

⭐️Check out the preview and video preview for a sneak peek!

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✅ Includes: (31 pages)

☑ Teaching materials (1 page)

☑ Craft directions (1 page)

☑ Writing prompts (1 page)

☑ Graphic organizers (6 pages)

☑ Writing sheets - dotted lines (2 pages)

☑ Writing sheets - single lines - thick (2 pages)

☑ Writing sheets - dotted lines - thin (2 pages)

☑ Sugar skull writing craft pieces - (8 pages)

☑ Cat skull writing craft pieces - (4 pages)

☑ Dog skull writing craft pieces - (4 pages)

✅ Bonus: (3 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Table of contents (2 pages)

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⭐️Looking for more Day of the Dead activities?

Day of the Dead Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for Hispanic Heritage activities?

Hispanic Heritage Month Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for more writing crafts?

Writing Craft Growing Bundle

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❤️ Teacher Tips:

⭐️Don't forget, you can earn TeachShare credits towards future purchases by leaving a review of this resource! Thank you for your valuable time and feedback!

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Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Wishing you a wonderful school year!

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