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12th grade social studies cultural activities
Veterans Day Program Script School Assembly or Class Activity to Honor Veterans
Are you planning a Veterans Day celebration for your school this year? This Veterans Day program script will help you get started as you plan your Veterans Day program.Our school's Veterans Day program has been my absolute favorite event of the year for over fifteen years!I have found that a program that celebrates Veterans is one of our favorite activities to bring together community members of all ages and students in our school. I have used this script at our school-wide Veterans Day progra
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Passport Booklet & Stamps Growing Bundle: Around the World Unit, Geography Fair
These passport stamps and passport booklet are absolutely amazing!!! Perfect for an around the world unit, introduction to country studies, a Geography Fair, International Night, Social Studies Units, "Read Around the World" Passports, or Christmas Around the World (or Holidays Around the World). Save now by getting in early on this GROWING BUNDLE as we will be adding country stamps in the near future!The passport booklet is authentic, appropriate for students in any country ("Citizen of the Wor
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PreK - 12th
Day of the Dead/ El Día de los Muertos Webquest
This is an awesome cultural activity that has students researching Day of the Dead on their own. They are engaged and busy the whole hour! This internet research activity is perfect for sub plans or having time in class yourself to get caught up on grading! Students can work independently or in groups, on paper or on Google Slides... whatever works best for your classroom environment!Included:- Four-page worksheet packet - Digital Google Slides version- Answer keyHow to use this resource:- Print
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Day of the Dead Lessons Bundle of Secondary Resources in English
What is Culture? 5-E Intro Lesson | FUN Cultural Traits Activity | Google
This fun, intro lesson challenges your class to explore what culture means and ways cultures vary worldwide. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! Begin with a fun “What in the World?” warm-up activity featuring Manu Martian, an alien who has crash-landed and is utterly confused. Examine culture and cultural traits through his observations of Earthlings, then introduce key vocabulary and concepts. Fill-in notes accompany the lesson. Next, s
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5th - 12th
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FRANCOPHONE COUNTRIES FRENCH SPEAKING COUNTRIES ⭐ Videos PPT Google Maps Quizzes
Do you struggle to make Francophone countries culture come alive? Want to bring your students on virtual field trips to all the major French speaking countries without ever leaving your classroom? Want to convince even your most reluctant learners to speak French so they can visit all these beautiful places? This is a whole year of Francophone culture. Hours of lesson plans including 101 Francophone countries video clips, colorful photos, facts, nationality practice, flashcards, a research pr
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2nd - 12th
Spanish Speaking Countries Flags Worksheets Spanish Colors Coloring Pages
These coloring pages practice Spanish colors using flags of Spanish-speaking countries. Line versions of each flag have the color in Spanish for each section of the flag (rojo, blanco, azul, etc.) It also includes a mystery phrase activity in basic Spanish using clues about each flag. Ex. La bandera de Colombia es ___, azul, y roja. The answers help solve the secret phrase which is a quote about travel. The answer key for the mystery phrase page is included.These can be copied front and bac
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4th - 12th
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Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish Music Bracket #8 for 2023 bell ringers HHM8
The original Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish music bracket for 2023! These Editable Google Slides music bell ringers or brain breaks for Spanish class are perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 (latinx heritage month, el mes de la herencia hispana o mes de la hispanidad). These are the original 1 song from every Spanish-speaking country that can be adapted for all levels including Spanish I, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, or Spanish 4 as a fun Spanish class routine with Spanish culture through music. S
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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A Million Miles Away Movie Guide Questions in English & Spanish Worksheets
This editable A Million Miles Away movie guide is designed for Spanish students while watching the new Amazon Prime Video film A millones de kilómetros in Spanish class. These A Million Miles Away movie questions would be the perfect complement to Hispanic Heritage Month or the study of migrant farming, the Mexican-American experience, with a cross-curricular STEM connection to space and eclipse solar 2024. A Mexican-American migrant farm worker becomes a NASA astronaut in an appropriate PG film
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8th - 12th
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Silk Road Trade Routes FUN Game Activity | Cultural Diffusion and Geography
Play a FUN “Travels on the Silk Road” game that students LOVE! They must identify goods & ideas spread on the trade routes while competing to amass the greatest fortune along the way! Print & interactive, digital versions of the materials are included. Made for traditional in-class learning or digital 1:1 classrooms. Everything you need is included!Includes:Explain Slides: Game DirectionsFill-in Scorecard & ChartGame Task CardsGame BoardAnswer KeyTeacher Reference GuideVocabulary:Sil
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5th - 12th
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Tierra Incógnita Spanish End of the Year Activities Season 1 Guide Sub Plans
This Tierra Incógnita season 1 guide is designed for Spanish students while watching the show Tierra Incógnita in Spanish class. The differentiated options mean you could use variations of this one editable Tierra Incógnita guide with all levels of Spanish you teach. Episode 1 of this authentic show in Spanish from Argentina would make a great one-day sub plan for Spanish class. Plus there are now 12 additional editable activities to use with any episode of season 1. ⭐Get the Movie Guide Bundle
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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National Hispanic Heritage Month: Reading & Substitute Plan for Spanish Class
Updated! This is the most popular resource on my store. I have updated this packet on 9/6/2019 with extended questions, a new True/False section, an answer key, and fixed the formatting errors. Please update your files!This is a sub plan that can be used anytime during National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15). It is also a good emergency substitute plan to keep handy. It includes three articles related to Hispanic Heritage month, how other countries celebrate their independen
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8th - 12th
Flags of the World: 2740 World Flags - All 197 countries - Incl. Coloring Pages
Flags of the World: All 197 countries - 2740 graphics - Clip-art Set and Bonus PDF Document. Includes 197 colored flags that are identical in dimension to allow you to create uniform, clean looking resources!This clip art set contains 197 flags from around the world in both color, gray-scale and black and white outlined coloring pages. (A total of 2740 graphics!). A PDF document with the country name and large format flag is also included for easy printing and displaying.Every world flag is her
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Editable Spanish Movie Guide Bundle of Spanish Movie Questions Spanish Sub Plans
This Spanish Editable Movie Guide bundle includes 18 editable Google doc movie guides for Spanish class. The differentiated options of questions in both Spanish & English mean you could use variations of the Spanish class movie guides with all levels of Spanish you teach all year and especially during Hispanic Heritage Month / Latinx Heritage Month / el mes de la hispanidad / el mes de la herencia hispanaThese Spanish class movie guides would be perfect for Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, S
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9th - 12th
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Art Detectives: Mystery of the Stolen Mona Lisa
Follow the clues of the stolen Mona Lisa and see if you can determine who the real culprit was. Students will examine the top suspects in the greatest art theft in history and write about who they think took the painting.This lesson has been carefully researched for historical accuracy. The facts, suspects, and evidence are true and have been simplified so students can learn about a real crime as well as art history. Photos of the real suspects, criminal, and crime scene will bring this historic
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5th - 12th
Harriet Movie Guide Questions in ENGLISH | Harriet Tubman 2019
Best movie guide out there! 27 Movie Guide Questions for the 2019 movie Harriet written in ENGLISH that include pre-listening questions, questions to answer during the movie, and reflection/analysis questions that can also serve as discussion questions after the movie. Includes movie images to help scaffold for diverse learners. Questions are spaced out to give students enough time to write answers down.Rated PG-13 and perfect for any classroom! Includes Answer Key.Synopsis:Based on the thrillin
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish Music Slides of all Spanish-Speaking Countries 1
These music bell ringers or brain breaks for Spanish class are perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month. There are culture-filled songs from every Spanish-speaking country that can be adapted for all levels including Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, Spanish 4 & Exploratory Spanish as a classroom management routine. Purchase the Hispanic Heritage Music Growing Bundle for the best deal!This Hispanic Heritage Month Music resource includes ✅ 22 Editable Google slides of different songs authentic song
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Spanish Culture Stations El Salvador & Gangs Spanish Class Digital Sub Plans
This editable Google Doc activity was designed to use stations (reading, listening, writing & speaking) to introduce intermediate Spanish students to the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and El Salvador, before reading the novel Vida y Muerte en la Mara Salvatrucha from Fluency Matters. It was created for high school Spanish 3 and Spanish 4 and has mature themes of gang violence. Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and El Salvador Cultural Stations Google Doc Includes✅ Interpretive Communication - authentic R
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Famous Autistic Leaders | Autism Awareness & Acceptance Bulletin Board Poster
Help spread autism acceptance and awareness, inclusion with this set of posters of notable influential autistic adults who are Leaders in the Autism Community! These influential autistic figures will inspire your students during Autism Acceptance & Awareness Month (or any month of the year). These can be hung around the school, hung in a classroom, used for a disability event, used for training, used for autism awareness month, etc.! Included are BULLETIN BOARD DISPLAY Letters and Symbols,
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
World Instrument Listening Unit: Set 1
Use these resources to introduce students to musical instruments from six different countries! This is a great unit to tie into other world music studies, instruments of the orchestra, or the science of sound. Students see pictures of instruments from one of the countries, and use their knowledge of instruments to describe the instrument and predict what it will sound like. After listening to the instrument, they describe the actual sound and compare it to other instruments, seeing if their pred
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3rd - 12th
Ultimate Cultural Heritage Month Bundle | Google Slides | Person Per Day
Hello and welcome to Celebrating Cultural Heritage Month Bundle! This resource comes with Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month, Women's History Month, and AAPI Month to celebrate for many months of cultural celebrations! This resource is designed to be used in person OR digitally.1. You can use this resource during morning class meeting to fit in relevant and diverse content. I share screen during our class meetings, and we discuss the slides/view the videos together2. This is a comple
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish Music Bracket #7 NEW for 2022 with diverse music
The original Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish music bracket. These Editable Google Slides music bell ringers or brain breaks for Spanish class are perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month (latinx heritage month, el mes de la herencia hispana o mes de la hispanidad). These are the original 1 song from every Spanish-speaking country that can be adapted for all levels including Spanish I, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, or Spanish 4 as a fun Spanish class routine with Spanish culture through music. Show the musica
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Cultural Diversity Lesson Plans-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion DEI Health Unit
TPT's #1 Best-Selling High School Cultural Diversity Unit!!These "Cultural Diversity Lessons" include 14 lessons that delve into the complexities of diversity and racism, followed up with 5 more lessons on celebrating students own heritage! Using Beverly Daniel Tatum's' article "The Complexity of Identity: 'Who Am I ?'" students work through several complicated identity and race issues. More About This Unit:-Includes 19 impacting lessons Powerful DEI articles, stories, quotes, videos and more!-6
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9th - 12th
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Australia & Oceania BUNDLE
Teach your students about Australia & Oceania with this jam-packed bundle!With this bundle, your students will learn about the geography, history, and cultures of Australia and Oceania. Resources Included in this Bundle:PHYSICAL MAP RESOURCES (includes 20 pages of editable PowerPoint slides, blank map worksheet, differentiated quizzes, and answer key)POLITICAL MAP RESOURCES (includes 31 pages of editable PowerPoint slides, blank map worksheet, differentiated quizzes, and answer key)GEOGRAPHY
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6th - 12th
Sociology BUNDLE: FULL YEAR OF CHAPTER BASED SLIDES/ACTIVITIES/WORKSHEETS
https://www.instagram.com/teach.love_/⭐Distance Learning compatible: the pdf includes the link to a google folder organized by chapters which include worksheets, slides, and articles. TEXTBOOK: Sociology Copyright 2008. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ISBN: 0-03-055011-4In this unit plan, you have several activities for all 18 chapters, projects (which include a focus group, socialization paper, field study, etc), supplemental articles, and extra activities meant to promote discourse or drive h
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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