Spanish Cultural Activities

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Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with our students in middle school with these three fun and engaging Cinco de Mayo activity crossword puzzles.

The puzzles are filled with words and phrases related to the history and culture of Cinco de Mayo, making them perfect for teachers looking to add some excitement to their lesson plans.

In addition, these easy-to-use crossword puzzles are a great way to introduce students to Mexican culture and history in a fun and interactive way. This will help you challenge your students to test their knowledge while developing their vocabulary and critical thinking skills.

Get your copy today and make Cinco de Mayo a memorable and educational experience for your students!

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❤️Are you looking for an engaging, hands-on way to learn about and celebrate Cinco de Mayo or Hispanic Heritage Month? These differentiated bingo games come in both English and Spanish and are perfect way to help your students learn, practice, or review Cinco de Mayo vocabulary words!

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✏️These are available in full color or in printer friendly black and white! Students can cover their bingo spaces by coloring the images!

✏️Low prep! Simply print onto card stock and laminate for extra durability.

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⭐️Play as a whole class, in small groups or for a classroom party!

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✅ Includes 3 bingo sets (133 pages):

☑ Set 1: pictures only (30 bingo cards - 80 calling cards - Eng. / Span.)

☑ Set 2: pictures with English vocabulary (30 bingo cards - 40 calling cards)

☑ Set 3: pictures with Spanish vocabulary (30 bingo cards - 40 calling cards)

✅ Bonus: (134 pages)

☑ "How to play" game instructions (1 page)

☑ Black and white sets (133 pages)

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✅ Cinco de Mayo images: (40)

☑ cowboy / el charro

☑ folk dancer / la bailarina folklórico

☑ musician / el mariachero

☑ maracas / las maracas

☑ Mexico / México

☑ cactus / el cacto

☑ flowers / las flores

☑ cowboy boot / las botas picudas

☑ llama / la llama

☑ wide hat / el sombrero

☑ France / Francia

☑ shawl / el serape

☑ hand fan / el pericón

☑ Mexican flag / la bandera mexicana

☑ May 5th / el Cinco de Mayo

☑ perforated paper / el papel picado

☑ balloons / los globos

☑ victory / la victoria

☑ accordion / el acordeón

☑ Virgin Mary / Virgen de Guadalupe

☑ party / la fiesta

☑ bicorne / el bicornio

☑ pinata / la piñata

☑ guitar / la guitarra

☑ custard / el flan

☑ tamales / los tamales

☑ chalupa / la chalupa

☑ pork soup / el pozole

☑ chocolate sauce / el mole poblano

☑ street corn / los elotes

☑ enchilada / la enchilada

☑ chicken taco / la tinga de pollo

☑ guacamole / el guacamole

☑ beans / los frijoles

☑ lime / la lima

☑ chili pepper / el chile picante

☑ salsa / la salsa

☑ fruit water / el agua fresca

☑ avocado / el aguacate

☑ rice / el arroz

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This internet activity unit has everything you need for your students to plan a virtual trip to Madrid! Air travel, hotels, shopping, meals, transportation, museums, spectacles, and budge worksheets - you can use them on a stand-alone basis to address different themes, or together as one big unit. Includes a list of websites that will be useful to complete the project. Planning travel is a useful skill for all students but it's also a fun activity to do.

As your students work their way through the activities, they will be learning about different aspects of planning a trip. They will also learn about the city of Madrid and its history and monuments. Each activity addresses a different aspect of trip-planning. Once they've done all of the activities, you can have students turn in the completed activities or put them together in a presentation about their trip. A fun way to learn a useful skill!

Activities in this unit include:

• Flights to and from Madrid
• Transportation while in Madrid
• Choosing a place to stay - hotel, hostel, AirBNB?
• Things to do
• Shopping
• Museums
• Shows and Events
• Dining and food budget
• Overall budget

Explore all corners of Spain with your students! They will research one of the 17 provinces of Spain, create captivating travel videos, present their videos to the class, and vote to select the top 3 tourist destinations. This unique project combines research, creativity, presentation skills, and cultural understanding, offering an interactive and fun learning experience for your students. And for you? You will have busy students for a week, individualized projects, and easy grading!

Depending on language level, projects can be completed in Spanish or English. Get ready to ignite a passion for Spanish language and culture in your classroom one province at a time!

Key Features of the Project:

1. Real-Life Application: This project taps into the real-life context of travel, allowing students to explore Spain's varied regions and practice language skills in a meaningful way.
2. Research and Inquiry: Students conduct research on a specific region, enhancing their critical thinking and information-gathering abilities.
3. Cultural Awareness: The project fosters cultural understanding as students delve into the significance of each region within the rich context of Spanish culture and history.
4. Creative Expression: Students showcase their creativity by producing engaging travel videos, enhancing their communication and storytelling abilities.
5. Collaboration and Peer Learning: Students present their videos to the class, encouraging peer learning, active listening, and cross-cultural appreciation.
6. Competitive Element: The voting aspect adds an element of friendly competition, fueling excitement and motivation in the classroom.
7. Language Proficiency (Optional depending on level): Through script creation, video production, and oral presentations, students sharpen their language skills in writing, speaking, and listening.

Project Includes detailed notes to teacher with implementation schedule, list of provinces, project instruction sheet for students, storyboard templates, guided presentation notes with voting sheets for presentations and grading rubric.

Project works well for any level of upper school Spanish (Foundations of Spanish, Spanish Exploratory, Middle School Spanish, Spanish I, II, III, IV, and can even be modified for AP Spanish),

Let's embark on this enriching virtual field trip through Spain together!

Are you looking for an easy and low-prep way to review likes and dislikes vocabulary with your Spanish students? Then look no further! These fun word puzzles (in pdf form) are a great way to practice or review likes and dislikes vocab with your students. There are 20 infinitives/verb phrases included in the five puzzles.

This file includes:

• one crossword (with clues in English)
• one word search (with clues in English)
• one mystery word puzzle, also known as "crack the code" (with pictures, no English)
• one word jumble puzzle (without clues)
• one vocab matching (match Spanish to English)
• answer keys for each puzzle
• a table of contents
• teacher tips page

Make sure to check out the preview for a complete list of included terms in Spanish!

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Engage your students in a rich cultural experience with this Día de los Muertos Altar Project!

This project is designed for high school Spanish classes and includes google slides and handout to guide your students through creating a meaningful and educational Día de los Muertos altar. This project not only honors the memory of the deceased but also enhances students' Spanish language skills and cultural understanding.

What's Included:

• Link to google slides presentation: Contains the basic information from the handout but also has images/examples and gives a brief overview of Día de los Muertos and the traditional elements of an ofrenda.

• Altar Creation Instructions: Detailed guidelines for students to build an altar honoring a deceased family member or a historical figure from the Hispanic world. Instructions for researching traditional altar elements and their meanings.

• Biography Writing: Step-by-step guidance on writing a two-page, double-spaced biography. Students will include important dates, hobbies, likes/dislikes, and fun facts about the deceased. Also includes a revision checklist to ensure the biography is complete, accurate, and well-written.

• Oral Presentation: Clear instructions for a 2-3 minute oral presentation where students discuss the traditional and unique elements of their altar, and how these elements connect to the life of the person being honored.

• Rubrics: Detailed 5-scaled rubrics to ease in grading and evaluating your students. Editable rubrics are available upon request! Just email me and I will send you them!

Bring the vibrant tradition of Día de los Muertos into your classroom with this engaging and educational project. Perfect for enhancing cultural appreciation and language skills, this project is sure to be a memorable experience for your students.

Get your Día de los Muertos Altar Project now and enrich your Spanish curriculum with this immersive cultural activity!

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Are you a CI teacher that struggles with whether to teach tú and usted first? I like to pick one and stick with it for a time to avoid confusion. However, I have discovered a way to teach both simultaneously with a clear visual cue. A CRAFTIVITY, if you will. All you need in the classroom are

1. copies of the crown (this resource)
2. royalty tax (this resource)
3. scissors,
4. glue/tape/staples,
5. maybe some markers or colored pencils.

How does it work?

• On day one, or early in the year, give students their crown. It's great for early in the year when there isn't much vocabulary accumulated to work with. Tell them to decorate their crown however they want. They can make it personal.
• After this, they cut them out and glue/tape/staple the bands on the ends of the crown only. They should not connect the strips to make the band. I recommend keeping them flat for easy storage until they are Royalty for the Day.
• Have students cut out their own royalty coins for royalty tax. You can decide on the number. I start with one per citizen. Royalty does not need a coin. Also, some of the coins are square because they are so much easier to cut out!!
• When it's their day to be royal, pull out their crown, have them connect the band so they can wear it on their head. During class, students must refer to royalty with the usted form and the rest of the class refers to each other in the tú form. Let them pick what day they want. Some will pick their birthdays while other families do not celebrate birthdays.
• The sentence Usted es real is on the crown as a reminder.
• Remember that some students may need help understanding that using a formal form is very important to another culture!

What if someone forgets to use the usted form with royalty? They have to pay a royalty tax! This is included in the resource. The student who has still kept their royalty coin(s) because they remembered to use the usted form can get a prize or just bragging rights! You can even have the class interview the student about things they like, dislike, etc. so everyone can learn about their king, queen, or whatever royal title they prefer.

Accommodation: Some students don't like being the center of attention for the entire class. In this case, you can group students together. Three in a group is a good number but use whatever works for you. Each group has one royal student. The others in the group have to use the usted form with that student and the royal student uses the tú form with everyone else (except maybe the teacher).You can even rotate groups so several students get the chance to talk to each royal member. Of course, the member of royalty stays on their "throne" while others come to see them.

You can use this for whatever level you choose. While I like the idea of starting with level one, you could wait. Furthermore, you can use this activity every year you teach, no matter the level. Even though students may be comfortable with tú and usted before level one is over, letting someone have a special day is good. They will have the opportunity to practice both pronouns and their conjugations with new verbs and new tenses or moods.

Students will feel special and you will see them grow in their language and confidence. So little for us to invest with such a great return on investment!

Engage your students with this 2 pages worksheet, focused on the renowned Spanish festival, La Tomatina. Designed for secondary Spanish students, this resource includes a reading comprehension passage about Nico’s unforgettable experience at the Tomatina festival. Here’s what it includes:

• Reading comprehension: Students answer questions in Spanish based on Nico’s story, building skills in understanding authentic-style texts.

• Grammar practice: A focused section on the pluperfect tense (pretérito pluscuamperfecto) helps students understand the tense and gain confidence in using this advanced tense to describe actions that happened prior to other past events.

• Vocabulary and Writing practice: Key vocabulary and phrases from the text are reinforced with translation exercises, promoting retention of useful language structures related to festivals and personal experiences.

The final writing task encourages students to write about their own hypothetical festival experience, using a mix of the pluperfect and preterite tenses, opinions, and connectors. This task is an excellent way to prepare students for the writing paper of the exam while allowing them to explore cultural themes.

This worksheet can support lessons on cultural topics, serve as effective exam prep, or offer meaningful cover work for independent study.

Getting Pre-AP Spanish students engaged has never been easier!  These 3 read and respond IPA activities integrate relevant themes with unique reading comprehension activities that require writing.  Students will build proficiency while reading narrative style short stories.  They will demonstrate understanding by producing a writing response in a variety of forms.  This resource includes the following 3 engaging activities:

-a transformative travel experience with a follow-up diary entry

-a passionate environmentalist with a follow-up poster or infographic

-a worried teen with a broken phone and a follow-up dialogue between the teen and a chatbot for customer service

All the reading themes are timely and relatable to teens and each response takes a different form.  No more boring, cookie cutter responses!  Each is open-ended and unique and gives students choice in what they say and how they say it!  There are so many ways to use these activities, and so little for the busy teacher to do!  Print or post and you’re done!  Get your advanced Spanish students ready and confident for AP Spanish or college coop courses! 

Who can use this product?

• Students in Pre-AP classes
• AP Spanish students 
• Intermediate Low and up proficiency level

How can I use this product?

• In-class reading and writing practice
• In-class assessment (IPA style)
• Homework assignment 

What’s included in this product?

• Teacher notes on how to use these activities
• 3 readings (Intermediate Mid level)
• Technology problem
• Recycling
• Travel 
• 3 follow-up activities
• Write a dialogue
• Make a poster or infographic
• Write a diary entry based on research about a travel destination

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Looking for ways to introduce the different Spanish-speaking countries to your students? Easily incorporate the culture and history of Uruguay into any level of your Spanish classroom with 'All About Uruguay'!

In the story 'Todo sobre Uruguay', your students will learn about the geography of the country, population, special holidays, common food from the country, and MORE! This reading is a great way to introduce students to Uruguay while also practicing reading skills. You can reinforce important words and concepts with the included word search, then find out your students' understanding with a 10 question assessment!

This product contains:

• Printable story (with lines for students to write information)
• PDF version of the story -- great for projecting on the screen
• 10 question multiple choice assessment (with answer key)
• Activity ideas for speaking, writing, and drawing
• Word Search with key vocabulary from the story

These stories work well for ...

• partner or small group activities
• an integrated performance assessment (IPA)
• no-prep sub plans
• large group read-aloud

Find more stories about all Spanish-speaking countries here!

Looking for a quick and easy Día de los Muertos activity? These calavera coloring pages are an easy way to incorporate culture and decorate your room or hallway at the same time! All designs fit together to make a colorful collaborative display.

Includes 6 different designs in full-page and half-page sizes.

Multiple uses: ❖Display as a collaborative bulletin board or classroom mural. ❖Create a festive hallway display or door decor. ❖Use as a fast finisher activity or brain break. ❖Showcase your students’ art skills and have a coloring competition. ❖Add glitter and sequins for even more fun and creativity. ❖Keep students occupied and have them color while they watch a Day of the Dead related movie or documentary.

The CINCO DE MAYO CLIPART SET - RUBY COLLECTION was designed to inspire your creativity and enrich your teaching materials, projects or designs like never before! Get ready to craft engaging worksheets, interactive presentations, and delightful educational resources that leave an impact on your students or anyone who comes across your inspiring content. Let A CURIOUS LEMON CLIPART be your ally!

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Un detalle super fácil de personalizar. Hay tres plantillas (8.5x11) en este producto: Una tarjeta para papá, una para el tío y una para el abuelito. Dentro de cada tarjeta, los chicos pueden escribir que hace a estas personas especiales, únicos.

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❤️Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to celebrate holidays around the world? Your students will have love problem solving, thinking creatively, practicing literacy, math, social studies, fine motor skills and much more with these printable holiday themed activities!

✏️Great for centers, sub tub, early finishers, independent morning work, whole group, partner work, small group work, peer tutoring, or extra practice at home for your preschool, kindergarten, 1st, or 2nd grade learners!

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✅ Holidays included:

☑ Christmas

☑ Hanukkah

☑ Kwanzaa

☑ Feliz Navidad

☑ Cinco de Mayo

☑ Day of the Dead

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☑ coloring pages

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Make learning about Cinco de Mayo interesting with this no-prep digital escape game.  The game includes access to a website where your students will hunt for the keys to unlock a set of locks.  Students will need to read the clues very carefully and watch videos, visit websites, and read texts to find the information they need to win the game.  Very easy to use - just send your students to the website and let them work!  Students can play individually or in teams. 

Cinco de Mayo is almost here!  Your friend from Puebla has sent you some candies from Mexico, but in order to open the box and retrieve them, you will have to figure out the codes that open the locks by learning about Cinco de Mayo and the traditions surrounding it.  This is a challenging activity that students will need to work together and think critically in order to complete. Some readings are in English while others are in Spanish.

Digital escape games are a fun way to start a unit, or to review at the end of a unit.  They can also be used to learn about a cultural or historical event.  This game will have your students reading carefully and paying attention to the smallest details in order to complete the challenge and unlock the locks.  

This item includes:

• Access to a website where your students can play the game
• Complete teacher's guide to playing the game
• Answer key so you can help students if they get stuck!

Your students will enjoy learning without even realizing that they are learning!  The challenging game format will get them excited about finding the code to unlock each lock - and the format of the clues for each lock will have them paying close attention - there's no way to solve the puzzles  without being 100% focused! 

Topics in this game include:

• Mole Poblano
• Benito Juarez
• Mariachi Music
• Ignacio Zaragosa
• The Battle of Puebla

Prep is very easy - you just need to share the website URL with your students.  You may want to test the site before you use it, just to make sure nothing is blocked by your district.  As some of the clues can be challenging to unlock, you may choose to help your students with the trickier ones.  With the teacher guide, you will have the answer key - so you can help guide students towards the correct answer by giving them hints, or if you have limited time, you can adjust the game by reducing the number of locks they need to unlock - just give them the answer(s) to help the activity fit your time constraints.

Related Products

• Dia de los muertos - Digital Escape game

• La Navidad - Digital Escape Game

• Digital Escape - Spain - in both English AND Spanish versions

• Digital Escape Game - Madrid

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• Digital Escape games - Spanish Bundle

Looking for a great way to start off the school year? The Exploring Spanish Influence in American Culture project is a great intro to Spanish class at back to school time! Students will discover that Spanish might not be such a foreign language after all. By exploring various influences, they will gain profound insights into how Spanish language, traditions, and people have woven their presence into modern American life.

Students will research:

• Spanish Words in English: Illustrating linguistic fusion.
• American Cities with Spanish Name: Reflecting historical connections.
• Spanish Foods: Showcasing culinary diversity.
• Famous Spanish Americans: Investigating influence on various career fields.
• Spanish Holidays or Customs: Bridging cultural traditions.
• Bilingual Product Labels and Signs: Demonstrating the impact of dual languages

Projects are presented to class in infographic, slide or even good-old posterboard format. Works great for Hispanic Heritage Month!

*Includes Graphic Organizer for students with diverse learning abilities and detailed rubric.

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Are you looking for a fun and highly engaging game for your Spanish students? Play vocab bingo! All you need is one bingo sheet per student and items to mark their board (such as pieces of paper or beans). You call out terms from the Call List included with the game and your students race to be the first to get a bingo. The Call List includes all terms from the bingo boards in English. The Call List includes all terms from the bingo boards in Spanish.

This special Valentine's Day-themed Bingo game includes:

• 30 terms for describing winter activities and related terms
• 40 different game boards with Spanish terms only (both color and black-and-white versions are included for a total of 80 boards)
• 40 different game boards with pictures only (color version only is included with two boards per page for a total of 40 boards on 20 total pages)
• two Call Lists
• Teacher Tips
• Table of Contents

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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.