Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, and it’s a great time to learn about Hispanic artists, scientists and others who have influenced the world.
My daughter’s Spanish class is doing all sorts of fun projects (she’s highlighting murals in our area painted by Hispanic artists) and project based learning is a great way to learn about different Hispanic figures.
For example this collaborative poster project from Easy Fun Science at Teachers Pay Teachers has kids learn about different Hispanic scientists and share information that’s put together into a display.
Srta Spanish has a virtual field trip built into an interactive Google Map showing different figures from around the world. The videos and readings are in English, though it would also be great for a Spanish class. Kids can just use the information in this project (there are comprehension questions included) or pick a figure from the presentation to learn more about.
For kids who do speak Spanish, the resources from The Llearning Llama are a lot of fun for the classroom. There’s a would you rather game, a quiz to determine which famous Hispanic person you are, foldable books about 24 Hispanic figures and more. You can learn about the resources on the blog and find tons of paid resources at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Real Life in the Classroom has a nice breakdown of how to research people and has some free printables (and more at Teachers Pay Teachers) to make it easy to make a display of their reports. Of course you can also have kids draw and write their own reports if you want to cover people who aren’t included in her list.
Woo Jr. has some good basic information you can build a lesson on, such as definitions of Hispanic and Latino, a country list and word search of country names, and a few biographies of Hispanic people in different fields. There’s also a notebooking page for learning about different countries if you want to include that in your lessons, as well as other ideas.
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