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Museums, Museums, Museums!
In
this lesson students will visit a website, read, answer questions, and
give descriptions.
Diego
Rivera
In this
lesson you will visit a website with Diego Rivera, one of the three
greatest muralists of modern Mexico. You will recognize an
artist's influences, style, size, use of color, message, interpretation
of history, and impact on culture.
Artistas Mexicanos Rivera y Kahlo
In
this lesson students read about Rivera and Kahlo. They read about
the different styles of painting: Muralist and Surrealist.
Students then create their own version of a mural or surrealist
painting.
Borders: Metaphors & Realities
Students will explore and create definitions of the word "border."
Students will engage in a multi-perspective way of looking at the
border.
La
Frontera
In this lesson the student will learn the geography of the border
between the US and Mexico and will explore reasons why people choose
to come to the US.
Mexico―Language and Literature
The students will develop their language and literature skills and
knowledge by engaging themselves within a realm of the Mexican culture.
Tasty Tidbits from Spain
Students will gain and use vocabulary which deals with some Spanish
foods. They will also compare typical American meals with typical
Spanish meal.
Mexican
Foods
This
lesson introduces Mexican food and the history behind it. The main
objective of this lesson is to introduce new food vocabulary to the
students. In addition, the students will also participate in classroom
activities, make a menu of their own, take quizzes, and use the internet
to practice the vocabulary. The students will apply what they learn in a
Mexican restaurant, by ordering their meal in Spanish
Spanish
Bingo
This is a great lesson for review. It is the same as playing
Bingo, but you may call it whatever you wish and have the student call
that name out when s/he wins.
Spanish
This lesson teaches the numbers 0-100 the fun and easy way.
Students create their own bingo chart, the teacher calls out numbers
randomly; six matches in a row wins.
Spanish Body Parts
Students will be
taught a variety of vocabulary, including parts of the body and colors,
in Spanish.
Cup Game: Question Words
For this lesson, the traditional "cup game" is adapted to help students
memorize the question words (who, what, when, where, why, how) in
Spanish. Students will be able to ask and answer questions using
the Spanish interrogative words.
The Mayans
This is an
interdisciplinary unit which will explore why the Mayan are not as
prominent today as they were in the past. Students will also develop a
better understanding of Mayan culture and their civilization.
Building Communities/Construyendo Comunidades
The objective of the lesson is to allow students to take responsibility
for their own learning of a foreign language through exploring the theme
of what community means. All groups develop their own core vocabulary of
words
associated with their concept of community. For the Grade and Middle
School students the lessons should be kept at a concrete-operation
cognitive level. For High School students their theme remains the same,
but their
development is more on the abstract cognitive level.
Questions and answers in a Foreign Language
The object of this lesson is for students to recognize all the
interrogative words, how to phrase questions and how to answer questions
in a foreign language.
Spanish Body Parts
In this lesson students will be taught a variety of vocabulary,
including parts of the body and colors, in Spanish.
Vocabulary review in Spanish
This
lesson is a vocabulary review. The class is divided into two
teams. Each person has a corresponding partner with which he
competes. One person from each team goes to the board, and the one
who answers correctly first
and can write the answer on the board scores for his/her team.
Baseball Vocabulary
This lesson can be used as a review of vocabulary and verb conjugations.
All levels from beginning levels through advanced can benefit from this
lesson.
Concrete Biopoems
In this lesson students create poems about themselves.
This reinforces use of adjectives and other vocabulary. To really
get the students involved have them put their poems inside a drawing of
a shape that
is important to them. For example: a football, a car, a parent's
face, etc.
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