El Día de los Muertos
This site has a lesson on comparing Halloween in the U.S. with El Dia de los Muertos; and it will help your students develop insight into the language and culture.

Deportes en España
In this lesson you will use the Internet to explore sports, identify cognates, use cognates to help guess meaning, identify false cognates, and find and illustrate a news article on a favorite sport.

America, A Home for Every Culture
In this lesson students will identify the words that became part of the English language as a result of immigrant groups settling in America.  They will also be able to identify the origin of music and instruments from a variety of ethnic backgrounds.

Cognate Detectives
In this lesson students will learn that there are words in English and Spanish that share the same root. These words are visibly and audibly very similar and have the same meaning. Students will become detectives exploring the many cognates in Spanish and English

Electronic Journals about Latin American Folktales
This lesson combines technology and research using authentic student-to-student dialog about folktales from their countries. Folklore genre provides the context through which students will learn more about Latin American countries.  Teachers will need to subscribe to an Internet discussion list intended for teachers seeking classroom partners for an intercultural email project.

A Discourse on the History of Language: Understanding the Origins of and Connections Among Modern Languages
In this lesson, students analyze the information used by linguists to construct the evolution of languages. They then research different dating techniques to understand how scientists infer age with evidence.

Animal Spirit and Powers (Nahuales)
In this lesson, students select a nahual and then write and illustrate bilingual poems about their chosen animal spirit. The lesson teaches basic elements of poetic verse in Spanish and English (sensory use, imagery, stanza, poetic line). A variety of Spanish and English poems are read and discussed to help students garner ideas for using sensory images, similes, and metaphors in their writing.

Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Plot and Setting
This lesson will answer the following questions: How do the plot and setting of Cinderella change as it is translated into a different culture? What literary elements of the Cinderella story are universal?
 

Cervantes Project: This is a comprehensive reference and research site dedicated to the study of Cervantes' works and life.

Babel Fish Translator By using this page, students and teachers will be able to access instant translations of words, phrases or whole websites in the language of their choice.

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.

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.

Casa de Joanna The Casa de Joanna: Language Learning Resources is a collection of web links that supplement French and Spanish language lessons.
 

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