$5 - $10 Middle School Spanish Cultural Activities (by date, latest first)

5 de mayo+ Activity Pack

Includes a Reading in English and Spanish.

The reading comes with a Comprehension Activity where students have to color-in their answers. There are two art pieces as options.

✏️Easy-to-use

✏️Engaging

✏️Authentic

Students have ample opportunity to write in Spanish.

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Not your typical textual evidence!

A fun way to get students readings and demonstrating comprehension.

Targeted for levels Spanish 2 or higher!!!

Student read and demonstrate comprehension by coloring in a picture.

Answer Key Included

32 engaging short readings targeted towards lower levels of Spanish.

Ideal for students in Spanish 1-2.

Fun topics, easily reads and level appropriate questions!

Looking for a unique way to spice up 5 de mayo and

Mexican independence day?

Here are two collaborative Posters your students can build together!

Fun, and beautiful masterpieces.

✏️Creative

✏️Easy-to-use

✏️Engaging

✏️Authentic

Los Casagrande Movie Guide

A great movie to hook students and teach about culture.

Includes a reading about Purepechas along with a fill-in activity

and movie guide with answers.

Additional Cultural Points are added.

Including a Coloring Activity, True and False and a traditional Movie Guide.

Oportunidades de Arte en la clase de español

Oportunidades: estudiantes que terminan rápido, fin de año, después de exámenes, recreo, después de la escuela, crédito extra, unidad de arte, días con sustitutos, etc.

☀️Guaranteed fun!

Ideal for:

Fast finishers, end-of-the-year, after testing, recess, after school, extra credit, art unit, substitute days etc.

Students will visit the Hispanic Virtual Museum. The museum is divided into 4 halls.

1. Hispanic Artists

a. Fernando Botero

b. Diego Rivera

c. Frida Kahlo

d. María Izquierdo

2. Music (various genres) -no audio

3. Celebrations and Traditions (various hispanic traditions and celebrations)

4. Historical Figures

This museum comes with a guide for students to fill-out while they explore the museum.

This is an overview of all categories, not an in-depth exploration. A in-deep museum for Fernando Botero and Frida coming soon. This is the perfect way to cover many important topics to give an overview of the Hispanic Influence

Argentina Virtual Field Trip

¿Has estado buscando una forma divertida y educativa de involucrar a tus estudiantes? ¡Mis lecciones utilizan los modelos de Aprendizaje Basado en Juegos y Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos, y están garantizadas para captar la atención de tus estudiantes desde el principio!

Este día de excursión virtual toma lugar en Argentina. Los estudiantes navegan a través de mi lección interactive. Este producto también viene con una guía para que escriban los estudiantes mientras recorren Argentina.

This TRIP is part of my GBL Program.

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⭐NO PREP NEEDED

⭐100% IN SPANISH

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

Artistas Hispanos del Momento Estudio y Comprensión

Incluye: ❤️

Lectura de Grupo Frontera

Karol G y Peso Pluma

Las lecturas de Peso Pluma y Karol G incluye una actividad de evidencia al colorear. La actividad de Grupo Frontera es un crucigrama.

Incluye Respuestas.

No necesitas preparar Nada, todo esta listo.

✅Get your students reading Spanish like pros with these engaging Reading Comprehension Activities.

In order to motivate students we have to connect with what they like, and a lot of the times it is through Movies and Music.

These activities feature Grupo Frontera, Karol G and Peso Pluma.

These artists are very popular and are making a lot of noise in the Hispanic Community and Internationally. Engage your students more than ever with relevant and fresh material. Transform your classroom by bringing in Popular Culture Material for your students.

How you can use this:

Show a classroom appropriate song and follow along with the biography of one of the artists, then follow with a coloring activity.

Assign as homework.

Assign as a sub-plan.

Assign as extra credit.

Assign as a cultural project.

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No Prep required!

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Embark in this wonderful journey! We are going to COSTA RICA!

Este día de excursión virtual toma lugar en Costa Rica!

Los estudiantes navegan a través de mi lección interactive. Este producto también viene con una guía para que escriban los estudiantes mientras recorren Puerto Rico.

This field trip is 100% in SPANISH.

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

Virtual field trips can be scheduled at any time, fitting easily into the classroom schedule without the need for extensive planning.

✏️Can be used as lessons, cultural days, end-of-the unit activities etc.

This Bundle includes:

Teaching Art in Spanish- Lesson Guide for students to interpret art.

Helps with terms and simple art work. Examples, pictures and words to facilitate the Art Unit

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Teaching-Art-in-Spanish-Bundle-3002601

The Breakout- It is recommended to do this last since it encompasses all components of the bundle. This bundle includes Salvador Dali, Diego Velasquez, Michelangelo, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, Da Vinci. This breakout includes a quiz, 3 powerpoints, questions about painters, Brief Bio and examples of their work. It plays as a Museum Experience. THE BREAKOUT IS Bilingual- English and Spanish

Painter’s Bio and Templates:

This bundle includes information, and templates to créate timelines or biographies of listed Painters.

Includes: Salvador Dali, Diego Velázquez, Michelangelo, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, Monet, Da Vinci, Francisco de Goya

Rubric to critique an Art Work (Spanish Only)

⭐Self-Paced

⭐Can Be Assigned as a Sub Lesson plan

⭐Extra Review

Este paquete incluye:

Enseñando Arte en Español: Guía de lecciones para que los estudiantes interpreten el arte. Ayuda con términos y trabajos artísticos simples. Ejemplos, imágenes y palabras para facilitar la Unidad de Arte.

El Breakout: Se recomienda hacer esto último ya que abarca todos los componentes del paquete. Este paquete incluye a Salvador Dalí, Diego Velázquez, Miguel Ángel, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, Da Vinci. Esta actividad incluye una prueba, 3 presentaciones de diapositivas, preguntas sobre los pintores, una breve biografía y ejemplos de su obra. Funciona como una Experiencia de Museo. LA GRAN FUGA es bilingüe: inglés y español.

Biografías y plantillas de pintores:

Este paquete incluye información y plantillas para crear líneas de tiempo o biografías de los pintores mencionados. Incluye: Salvador Dalí, Diego Velázquez, Miguel Ángel, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, Monet, Da Vinci, Francisco de Goya.

Rúbrica para criticar una obra de arte (solo en español).

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Embark in this wonderful journey! We are going to Puerto Rico!

Este día de excursión virtual toma lugar en PUERTO RICO. Los estudiantes navegan a través de mi lección interactive. Este producto también viene con una guía para que escriban los estudiantes mientras recorren Puerto Rico.

This field trip is 100% in SPANISH.

☀️SUB-FRIENDLY

⭐NO PREP NEEDED

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

Virtual field trips can be scheduled at any time, fitting easily into the classroom schedule without the need for extensive planning.

✏️Can be used as lessons, cultural days, end-of-the unit activities etc.

Day of the Dead Bundle

What does it include?

• A Coffin Craft
• A Craft where students write about the holiday.
• An explanation of an altar
• 6 Digital Altar Activities- Interactive
• 5 Writing Templates
• 2 Word Searches
• Digital Altar Reflection Worksheet

✏️Authentic

✏️SUB-FRIENDLY

✏️Engaging

⭐NO PREP NEEDED

☀️INTERACTIVE

☀️ART

This bundle also includes this product: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Day-of-the-Dead-Reading-Challenge-Digital-10295785

Need some fun and exciting projects for your Spanish class?

Can be used in any level since they are mostly templates.

Students can use their imagination to create the pieces that

best represent them!

10 Templates plus Bonus Projects!

✏️Easy-to-use

❤Sub-days

❤Homework

❤Extra Practice

❤Extra Credit

❤Cultural Enhancement in the classroom

❤Enhance student writing

❤Art Component

❤Advanced students that need a more hands-on activity

and so many other ways!

Use them as a review, classroom decor, hall decor, to assign projects on them etc. The options are limitless! I like to have students color them, do a brief explanation to the classroom and hang them around campus.

Los Personajes son:

· Gabriel Garcia Marquez

· Elizabeth Acevedo

· Eugenio Derbez

· Miriam Jiménez

· Maritza Correa

· Esteban Hotesse

· Mariano Rivera

· Roberto Clemente

· Dolores del Rio

· Adhara Pérez

· Rita Moreno

· Selena

· Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

· Isabel Allende

· Frida Kahlo

· Messi

· Benito Juarez

· Eugenio Derbez

· Sonia Sotomayor

· Celia Cruz

· Gaspar Yanga

· Lupita Nyong’o

· Julia Burgos

• Juan Rulfo

Úsalos como repaso, decoración de aula, decoración de pasillos, para asignar proyectos sobre ellos, etc. ¡Las opciones son infinitas! Me gusta que los estudiantes los coloreen, hagan una breve explicación a la clase y los cuelguen alrededor del campus.

Take your students to Spain with this fun one-of-a-kind Field Trip

Includes a Guide where students will write-in Answers as they navigate through my Virtual Field TRIP!

Part of my Game-Based Learning Project!

• FUN
• SUB-FRIENDLY
• CULTURAL ACTIVITY
• PRACTICE SPANISH
• WRITE IN SPANISH
• READ IN SPANISH

Please click on the link icon to access the Virtual Field TRIP (the link is embedded to the PDF).

Are your students ready for invierno?  Have some fun with these Spanish activities for Writing, Speaking and Listening! Use the winter season to your advantage as students practice their interpretive and interpersonal skills as they talk about winter where they live and learn about winter activities in other parts of the world!

What’s included?

#1

Authentic listening activities for Spanish class can be so hard to find!  We want our students to practice their listening skills but we don’t want to spend an hour searching for a good video!  This YouTube video is about winter in Chile.  A young person takes us around his city and explains what winter is like there.  To check comprehension, students will answer questions as they watch. Students will make comparisons and discover similarities and differences between their own experience and the speaker’s experience in Chile.   An answer key is also included!

#2

These Spanish Task Cards are geared towards winter activities, vacations and winter holidays. Situation Task Cards are a great way to get your Spanish 1, 2, 3 and 4 students talking and using language creatively!  (These are generic enough to be used with any curriculum!)  

There are 20 different scenarios which give students an idea of what to talk about in a story that they make up. The task cards come in 3 versions!  First I have a large scale digital version that can be displayed for the class.  The other version is printable (4 cards per page) and comes in both black and white and an attractive color version. Slides come with helpful vocab that students may need to discuss the scenario.

These winter-themed task cards feature scenarios for present, past and future time frames.  Google Slides can be modified if you need to change something to meet your students’ needs!

Also included is a peer feedback sheet and a self-assessment sheet and a vocab list for both Winter Vocab and Christmas Vocab!  

#3

These Winter Writing Prompts for Spanish classes solve a number of your challenges! Your students can work together in groups to write about Christmas and Winter Vacation, and it turns into a fun competition where everyone learns!  AND- you only correct ONE paper per group!!  Students help each other improve their writing as they try to increase creativity, detail, sophistication and accuracy, all while having fun!  These writing prompts can also be used individually.   Embed culture and traditions into your writing practice!  There are 3 prompts for Novice High level students and 3 for Intermediate Low students.  Scaffolds such as vocab lists, sophistication word charts and a graphic organizer are all included! 

Who can use this product?

• Spanish students in Year 2 and up

How can I use this product?

• Play the video for the class on a projector or Smartboard
• Assign the video via Google Classroom or other learning platform
• Assign the comprehension questions by printing or posting to a learning platform
• Use this as a class activity, homework or assessment!
• Let students choose their writing prompt to increase engagement
• Allow students to use the scaffolds they need to be successful
• Consider making this writing a group challenge (Teacher instructions included!)
• Correct one paper per group and give helpful feedback (but save TONS of time!)
• Enter a grade or just let them practice
• Assign these writing prompts individually
• Save one writing prompt to use as an assessment!
• Edit any part of the prompts/rubrics/vocab lists to suit your students’ needs
• Teacher ideas included in the task card 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?

• A link to a YouTube video about winter in Chile.  The speaker is a young person to whom our high school students can relate (9 minutes)
• A print or post comprehension activity
• Questions in the comprehension activity are in English.  I did this on purpose so that students cannot simply copy what they hear (and potentially not understand what it means)
• Questions ask for details about what the speaker said and also ask student to compare and contrast their own experiences with those of the speaker
• Answer key included!
• 1 Christmas-themed prompt for Novice high (geared at demonstrating knowledge of traditions in the Spanish-speaking world) (color and black and white versions)
• 1 Christmas-themed prompt for Novice High (geared at talking about their country’s Christmas traditions)  (color and black and white versions)
• 1 Winter-themed prompt for Novice High1 Christmas-themed prompt for Intermediate Low (geared at demonstrating knowledge of traditions in the Spanish-speaking world) (color and black and white versions)
• 1 Christmas-themed prompt forIntermediate Low (geared at talking about their country’s Christmas traditions) (color and black and white versions)
• 1 Winter-themed prompt for Intermediate Low (color and black and white versions)
• 1 Vocab list for Christmas vocabulary
• 1 Vocab list for Winter vocabulary
• Teacher instructions for how to use these prompts as a fun group challenge that involves EVERY student
• Suggested rubric for each prompt
• Writing sheet for each prompt
• Graphic organizer
• Complete list of Sophistication Words (sequencing, key words and transition words)
• Teacher instructions and ideas for how to use these Situation Task Cards
• 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 for Winter-themed vocabulary
• Vocab list for Christmas-themed vocabulary
• All parts of this resource can be edited!

Other resources you may like:

Spanish Fall Otoño Activities for Writing and Speaking

Christmas in Spain Digital Escape Room

Spanish Seal of Biliteracy Test Prep Bundle

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Want your Spanish students to learn about Day of the Dead , but  reading comprehension is getting boring in your Spanish class?  Turn it into a game!  This mystery-solving reading about Día de Muertos  goes from dull to exciting as students work together and move around the room to solve a mystery!  This is a simple “print and go” with no work for the teacher!  Use the same lesson plan for all of your classes, regardless of level, because your differentiation is already done!

   Students investigate with Maria, a young person from Mexico, while she tries to understand more about a former member of her town.  He visits the townspeople all year, not just during Día de Muertos.  Why can’t he rest in peace?   While they read the parts, they are also looking for “code words”.  Students record the code words on a special answer sheet that will eventually lead them to solving the mystery of how/why he died.   It’s so much fun! 

    After, you can decide which of the 4 follow-up activities you want to do with your students.  There are 4; a True or False Activity to check for basic comprehension, a graphic organizer for students to learn more about the specific items related to Day of the Dead, a “tell me in your own words” activity,  and a writing follow up where students use their reading comprehension and critical thinking to invent an explanation for who this lost soul was and why he died the way he did.  Answer key to the True/False is also included.  Best of all?  If there’s something you’d like to change for your students, you are free to edit!

The reading cards are written in English for your Novice classes, and Spanish for Intermediate classes.  The questions are written for Novice in English and answers will be in English as well. And for Intermediate, the questions and answers will be in Spanish.  The same for the instructions and mission!  Students get the benefit of learning about a cultural event while using teamwork!

Who can use this product?

• Students in Year 1 and up

How can I use this product?

• Print out the reading cards (10)
• Hang them up around your room
• Print and copy the answer sheet
• Let students loose to solve the mystery! 
• Assign follow-up activities if you wish

What’s included in this product?

• Everything!  No prep beyond print and photocopy!
• Teacher instructions and hints
• 10 reading cards (English), 10 reading cards (Spanish)
• Student instructions (English & Spanish)
• Student answer sheet (Questions and Answers are in English or Spanish)
• Answer Key for the code word questions and answer trail
• True/False Comprehension Activity
• Answer Key to True/False
• Summarize/Tell me in your own words activity
• Graphic Organizer for students
• Writing Follow-up: Explain why the ghost died the way he did!

Other resources you may like:

Día de los Muertos vocab puzzle

Hispanic Heritage Month Scavenger Hunt Reading Game Gallery Walk & Activities

Spanish Fall Otoño Activities for Writing, Speaking & Listening

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Help your students to learn some common slang expressions from Spain and Puerto Rico with these Google docs, Google Slides and videos! Students can learn some common words that people use in speech and in texting!

Each video has a viewing guide for students to write their own answers, and a link to an Edpuzzle for students who need more scaffolding, or for teachers who want something that auto-corrects! These activities are a lot of fun for the end of the year, or when you just need a break from the day to day grind!

Who can use this product?

• Any student interested in learning slang from Spain or Puerto Rico!

How can I use this product?

• Assign these activities in class or for homework
• Use this as a mini-unit or one activity at a time to break things up!
• Get students excited to learn "practical" Spanish! 
• Have students complete the interactive drag and drop Google Slides activities!

What's included in this product?

• 3 links to a curated YouTube videos
• 15 drag and drop texting terms in a Google Slides presentation
• Teacher Answer Keys for each viewing guide
• links to 3 Edpuzzles to accompany each video

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Other resources you may like:

Seal of Biliteracy AAPPL Test Interpretive Reading Activities

Verb Tense Project

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