Elementary

This activity will guide students in learning how to make traditional Mexican Paper flowers. This is a great way to immerse students in Mexican art and culture.

This teachers guide provides outlines for teaching about the book "Yum! Mmmm! Que rico!" by Pat Mora and examines themes within the book that relate to a variety of disciplines such as Language Arts, Social Studies and Science/Nutrition. Explore this book with your K-5 students and enjoy the questions and guidelines provided as a resource to teaching!

This document contains an educational bilingual collection of 36 songs (19 each in English and Spanish) and activities promoting healthy nutrition for children and adults by award-winning author, educator and singer Jose-Luis Orozco. The songs provide the catalyst to ignite interest and enhance students learning about good nutrition and healthy habits while developing oral language and early literacy skills in English and Spanish.

Explore the book "Love to Mama: A Tribute to Mothers" by Pat Mora with this teacher's guide. Students will learn vocabulary and can use book to grow their knowledge in language arts, social studies or science.

In this lesson students will compare and contrast the terrain of Mexico and the Central American countries and understand that geography helps shape the economic and cultural development of a country or region.

Learn to make Bunuelos, a type of desert that can be found throughout Latin America and are served year round but are typically served as a side dish during holidays with syrup.

Students in teams invent an animal that is specifically adapted to the rain forest environment, focusing on the Amazon Rain forest. They create a tear-art picture of the creature and present it in class. Students will first list adaptions animals have, then discuss different animals in the rain forest, then create their creatures and later describe adaptations of their specific creature to other students in class. This is a fun way to get students thinking about their surrounding environment including brainstorming adaptions that creatures who live in the rain forest can have.

This activity allows students to become acquainted with Haiti's basic foods and Haitian meal patterns by making and trying some Haitian dishes. A fun way to immerse student's in the Haitian culture.

Learn how to make fantastic sculptures from the country of Haiti. Fantastic sculptures are originally made from used oil drums but in this activity students will use disposable aluminum baking pans sold in super markets to practice this sculpture technique. This is a good way to immerse students in the culture and art of Haiti.

This lesson plan provides an overall introduction to the country of Guatemala, which is borders the southern part of Mexico. Guatemala is a par of Central America and this lesson plan provides lessons in mathematics, social studies and more.