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Spanish Colors and Clothing
Students practice Spanish words for colors and clothing through a variety of activities. The clothing that they are wearing becomes a medium for vocabulary review and part of the instructional activity's content.
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Country: El Salvador
Students visit sites to explore the history, wildlife, and geography of El Salvador. They play an interactive game of Concentration and watch a slide show that includes pie charts and bar graphs on Hispanic population in the United States.
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Spanish Country Report
Students select a Spanish-speaking country they would like to visit. They gather information and present it in Spanish in the form of a written and oral report.
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El Día de las Madres
Students research the origin of Mother's Day and in Spanish, write a poem for their mothers, aunt or grandmother. They plan a Mother's Day event.
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"Once a Jolly Swagman" (Australian vocabulary)
Students listen to the song "Waltzing Matilda" in order to become familiar with some Australian words.
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How Big Is a Piece of PI?
High schoolers explore the ratio of circumference to diameter in order to estimate a value for pi.
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De Colores
Students listen to the song, De Colores, and list the colors heard in the song. They create murals, describe the murals in Spanish, and describe how colors change their endings according to the nouns they modify.
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La Mochila (The Backpack)
Middle schoolers examine objects, labeled in Spanish, that are common items found in a backpack. They write simple sentences in Spanish listing the items from the backpack.
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Los Opuestos (Opposites)
Students examine and discuss various pairs of opposites, repeating the words in Spanish. They draw a picture to illustrate each opposite and write sentences containing the Spanish opposites.
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Ser y Estar
Students describe the physical characteristics of animals or people, using the correct form of ser and estar. They draw pictures of people expressing different emotions and write sentences describing the emotions, using the correct form...
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Verb Sheet
High schoolers complete template on the conjugation of any tense of verbs in Spanish, and then write teacher-dictated sentences using these verbs.
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Dia de San Valentin
Students listen and repeat various phrases associated with Valentine's Day. Then they design their own heart-shaped Valentine for someone, using the Spanish phrases they learned.
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Digan Queso
Students work in groups with the assigned roles of either a photographer or a family member. The photographer gives commands in Spanish designating family members to follow where to stand for a family photo.
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Survivor Interview
Students practice listening and speaking skills in a foreign language, and participate in a dialog with a Holocaust survivor.
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Fun With Past Participles
High schoolers read and discuss an article about the environment, identifying the past participles in the article. They write questions about the article and interview other students.
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Canaima
Students analyze the meaning and uses of definite articles in Spanish. They read a pamphlet on the national park in Canaima, Venezuela, and discuss the similarities and differences between national parks in the U.S. and Venezuela.
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Pasatiempos Interviews (Speaking Lesson)
Learners interview a partner in Spanish. They create a Venn diagram chart to organize their information and present the information to the class.
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Know Your Telephone
Young scholars describe the parts of a cell phone and role-play a phone call to a customer service representative. They compare/contrast the price of owning and using a cell phone in the U.S. and Venezuela.
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Ponle Color a Venezuela
High schoolers demonstrate the ability to express the Spanish future tense using . They read an advertisement for a studenT contest to promote a certain product, then write and present a contest of their own.
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PERSONA PROJECT
Students examine the role and influence of the major political, literary, and artistic figures in Russian history and in present-day Russia.
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Latin American Culture
Learners explore sites are about the culture and life of the people of Latin America and Latin Americans in the United States. There is information about Latin American music, dance, art, and heritage.
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The Relatedness of Languages
Students use Internet and library resources to select and examine the origins of phrases or words, particularly words that have origins in other languages.
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The Influence of Musical Folk Traditions in the Poetry of Langston Hughes and Nicolás Guillén
Pupils listen and explore how African-American culture relates to learning Spanish as a foreign language. Poetry, music, and history are utilized while learning about Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen.
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The "Me" Quilt
Students share their interests and characteristics by making patches about themselves. The patches are joined together to make a class quilt.