Las reglas de Tráfico en Uruguay
This lesson on traffic rules will help students to process different types of information in the target language. 

La Familia Real
In this activity you will visit a website on the Royal Family, and answer questions based on the information presented.  

Venta y Compra de Vehículos
In this lesson students will read advertising related to vehicles, recognize prices, telephone numbers, typical ad content, and other features of advertising.  They will also apply vehicle related vocabulary and information from the classified ads to student generated recommendations and ads.  

Visita al Zoológico
In this lesson students will explore and identify various animals in Spanish, enrich reading skills and Spanish vocabulary, recall and analyze reasons for various species being endangered,  develop possible means of protecting endangered species,  practice writing skills with new vocabulary and enjoy a virtual tour of two Zoos. 

¿Quienes Somos? / Who Are We?
This is a Spanish lesson plan designed to help enable students to explore their own identities, to develop a sense of pride in and ownership of the community in which they live, and to improve writing skills.

Mapping the Border
Students will study the geography and physical environment of the borderlands region. In creating maps, they will not only use geography skills, but bring to bear their own sociological/critical thinking about the border in especially designing a unique border map.

Border Forum
Students will read, analyze, and synthesize news reports on current border issues. Working in groups, students will prepare an oral presentation and written support documents which must clearly and accurately explain the issue to an audience which may be unfamiliar with the topic

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.

Mexican Food
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

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.

Using Powerpoint to learn vocabulary
The purpose of this lesson is for the students to learn the Spanish terminology for family members; to learn how to use Microsoft Power Point; to learn how to use a scanner.

¡Tu eres profesor(a)!
This lesson is designed as a review for a chapter test.  Each student will take the role as instructor to develop and teach their own lesson plan to the class.
 

Spanish Grammar Tutorial This site features an online grammar guide for those interested in learning Spanish. From this page, visitors can link to individual pages providing instruction in parts of speech, vocabulary, and common phrases and expressions.

Latin American Network Information Center (lanic): History This page provides numerous links to English-language and Spanish- language Latin American history resources.

Hispanic Magazine This magazine has a list of links to articles for and about Hispanics. Site includes Hispanic culture, business, sports and more.

Museo del Prado This website is for one of Spain's most famous museums. It offers online tours of its collection and other museum information.

CNN En Español CNN world news in Spanish. A great resource for Sports, weather, international concerns, health, fashion and everything else you are used to from CNN.

El Espectador This site is a daily paper from Colombia. Includes front page stories, economics, sports, links to back issues, and more.

Online Resources-Spanish This site is dedicated to materials for language learning. It includes courses, grammar, links to practice materials in all four modalities, and much more.

Webspañol: Spanish Language Resources on-line This site boasts of their commitment to Spanish Language study with Internet resources.

Noticias y Revistas In case none of the others interest you, here is a nice listing of many of the Hispanic Newspapers available on the web.

TeachSpanish.com The TeachSpanish.com Country Resource Center will allow you to explore any Latin American country you choose in either English or Spanish. Also, when you get to a country, simply click on the country flag to get some general demographic information in English about that country.

Quia - Class Page Kathleen Pepin This is basically a site for Spanish II which can also be used later in Spanish I 

Bienvenidos a mi página WEB This is a Super Website with links to over 630 sites and growing daily.
 

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