Did you know that -ir and -er verbs in the present tense are conjugated almost the same? They only differ in the nosotros and vosotros forms. Review the chart at the top of the page before diving into the rest of the resource! Learners...

Explore a list of 15 idiomatic expressions that use tener. The second exercise has learners choose between two similar words to fill the blanks provided.

Twenty-two random numbers between 0-39 are posted in a list, and your class needs to identify them! While there is a word bank at the bottom, consider cutting it off before you copy the document and have your learners write the numbers...

Knowing idiomatic phrases gives learners a better idea of a language and its people. Introduce your scholars to idioms using the word vez. Answers are provided, but be sure to discuss some of the more difficult ones with your class!

Assess the reading comprehension of your beginning and lower-intermediate Spanish language learners with an activity. First, they read a short text, and then they complete three activities. In the first activity, they complete the...

Intended for very beginning Spanish speakers, this mini-assessment provides three short activities. First, quiz takers write the names of five fruits. Then, they input el, la, los, or las in 12 words (like animales, manos, and cama). To...

Read the short poem about the sea before assessing your beginning and intermediate Spanish speakers and their reading comprehension. Two short exercises follow the text. First, learners respond to five comprehension questions, and then...

Can a negative perception of a president's foreign policy harm his or her historical legacy? A project that winds the clock back to the date of Theodore Roosevelt's death puts students at the editorial desk of a fictional newspaper....

Bring a Mexican marketplace to your classroom! Your middle schoolers will practice buying and selling items and learn more about marketplace culture. Set up booths with props beforehand, and consider adding a few products they're...

Examine three Cubism art pieces by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque with your students. They will research how Cubism was advanced due to Picasso and Braque. and then compare and contrast Cubist works through image based discussion. Your...

Eleventh graders listen to a brief history lesson about the 40's and 50's mid-West America and the Migrant workers that worked the fields. Next, learners will read a short story written by Tomas Rivera (both in Spanish and English)....

Expose your class to a variety of excerpts of poetry with a reading practice activity. There are four excerpts from different poems included in this resource; there are three to five related questions for each poem. Learners read each...

Introduce class members to basic biographical information about Ernest Hemingway. Groups read three brief paragraphs, and then respond to fact-based questions using material drawn from the readings. The exercise would work well with...

High schoolers identify the volume of cones and pyramids. In this geometry lesson, students derive the formula for cones and pyramids. They calculate the volume of cones and other three dimensional shapes.

How many days until summer? Find a special day, and use this activity to determine how many days, weeks, hours, even seconds until it arrives! There are three levels of difficulty, which can provide differentiated instruction with...

Learners discuss the types of department stores they have visited. Using the internet, they take a virtual tour of a spanish department store and answer related questions. They practice using new vocabulary and navigating through the...

Assess your beginning and intermediate Spanish speakers and their reading comprehension with a short passage. The three-sentence paragraph describes Pablo the carpenter. Afterward, learners create a title, answer some basic comprehension...

If your class could use some grammar help, this worksheet could be a good addition to your lesson on verb tenses. Three exercises guide learners through the conditional tense, offering several ways to describe the results of events that...

Young scholars demonstrate how to solve word problems. They will watch the video "Math Can Take You Places" and identify three problem solving strategies.

Beginning and lower-intermediate Spanish language learners read about los peritios, a made-up animal. Four short paragraphs precede a set of seven reading comprehension questions. The first few questions are multiple choice, and the...

In this American imperialism worksheet, young scholars review a chapter as they define 5 vocabulary terms in their own words, eliminate 4 false statements, and identify 2 themes from this era of growth and challenge in America.

Students read through an advertisement to explain meaning, and then present an advertisement they made to the class. They develop the uses of direct and indirect objects in Spanish

Learners examine the influences of the Hispanic culture in the United States. In groups, they read about the life of a slave in Cuba and identify the misconceptions are discussed. As a class, they define racism, read an essay and...

Students explore Mexican dance groups