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Berlitz Spanish
Learners use a CD-ROM that offers a combination of listening, reading, writing, and speaking activities for the beginner Spanish student using a repertory of learning strategies.
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Spanish Armada Crossword
In this Spanish Armada crossword puzzle learning exercise, students use the 10 clues to identify the correct words and names that will solve the crossword puzzle.
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Verbs in Spanish
In this Spanish verbs worksheet, students conjugate Spanish phrases with verbs back to English. Students complete 28 problems total.
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Homework (Tarea): Translating English to Spanish
In this Spanish to English activity, learners translate sentences from Spanish to English. Students complete this for 26 sentences.
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"To be" Worksheets: Translating English to Spanish
In this translation activity, students translate the phrases that are in Spanish to English. Students complete 48 problems on this activity.
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Yellow Journalism
Seventh graders investigate yellow journalism and how it affected public opinion and the government during the Spanish American War. They define key vocabulary words, and take notes during a teacher-led lecture. In pairs they read...
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Lines From Behind the Lines
Fifth graders create a timeline of events in a soldiers life. For this World War I lesson, 5th graders learn about the Great Depression and World War I. Students watch video segments about World War I and examine primary...
Rock A Lingua
Las Partes Del Cuerpo (Parts of the Body)
How many body parts can you identify in Spanish? Is pelo the word for hair or finger? Match Spanish vocabulary focused on body parts with a series of word puzzles, true-or-false questions, and a funny comic strip.
American Museum of Natural History
Tools of the Trade
Archaeologist David Hurst Thomas details his search for a lost Spanish Mission on St. Catherines Island, Georgia. A great way to introduce youngsters to the life of and the tools used by archaeologists.
Nebraska Department of Education
Activities for Numbers
Looking for ideas for teaching numbers to your Spanish class? Try out one or all of these 16 activity ideas!
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Queen Anne's War and Its Impact on Deerfield
Class members read a series of primary and secondary source materials to examine the effects of Queen Anne's War, also know as the War of Spanish Succession, on the Pocumtucks and other Native Americans in the area of Deerfield, MA.
Polk Bros Foundation
I Can Compare and Contrast
Work with your class to fill out this Venn diagram. Pupils can compare and contrast any two things and then write a short paragraph about the relationship demonstrated in their diagram.
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Imperialism and Expansion: Part 1
Young scholars explore the era of imperialism and expansion of the United States. In this American history lesson, students play a game regarding the U.S. attempts to expand the nation in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Orlando Shakes
Man of La Mancha: Study Guide
It's the end of the sixteenth century in the middle of the Spanish Inquisition when a group of prisoners decides to dramatize the story of Don Quixote. A study guide provides a summary and other important information about the play Man...
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American Becomes a Colonial Power
Exploring the idea of America joining "the imperialist club" at the end of the 19th century, this presentation presents reasons why America not only had the drive to explore the world, but the power and wealth with which to do so....
Mathematics Vision Project
Equations and Inequalities
Help learners get their facts in line to build and solve complicated linear equations and inequalities. Pupils build upon their knowledge of solving basic equations and inequalities to solve more complex ones. Individuals work with...
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
War and Poetry
A band of brothers or the Devil's agents? Nobel warriors freeing the oppressed or mercenaries working for the military/industrial complex? Groups examine poems from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II to determine the poets'...
Scholastic
Awesome Adaptations
Engaged learners discover how an owl beak works and how animals adapt to their environment. This task is part one of a three-part series.
Smithsonian Institution
Art to Zoo: Life in the Promised Land: African-American Migrants in Northern Cities, 1916-1940
This is a fantastic resource designed for learners to envision what it was like for the three million African-Americans who migrated to urban industrial centers of the northern United States between 1910 and 1940. After reading a...
US House of Representatives
Hispanic Americans in Congress During the Age of U.S. Colonialism and Global Expansion, 1898–1945
To be Puerto Rican, in the words of one politician, is to be "foreign in a domestic sense." Young historians consider the American role in colonialism and its impacts on Hispanic Americans through the first part of the twentieth century...
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Courtesy
How many words do you have to know to be able to select the correct sentence translation? Beginning and Intermediate Spanish speakers read Spanish sentences and identify their correct translation from a list of options. Although some of...
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Caer bien/ mal
Give your beginning Spanish speakers some practice translating simple sentences. All of the sentences appear to be somewhat related (whether they're talking about bosses or people who complain), but they do not form any sort of paragraph...
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Contractions
What are the Spanish contractions? Review the contractions, and then provide your class with this practice sheet. For each of the 13 sentences provided, your learner must identify the correct translation out of the four options listed....
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Future Actions
How do you conjugate a reflexive verb? This plan suggests reading a children's book to your intermediate Spanish speakers. Follow the reading with a PowerPoint slide show that presents reflexive verbs, a sentence using the verb, and a...