Lesson Plans

Tolerance: Comparing Cultural Holidays
Students in grades K-4 compare Halloween and El Día de los Muertos by looking at traditions, music, and visual art.

Let's Travel to Mexico!
Students in grades 1-2 learn about the language and literature of Mexico.

Journal of Time: A Historical Perspective (Esperanza Rising)
Students in grades 5-8 use photographs as inspiration to write journal entries from the point of view of someone living during the Great Depression in California.

Hispanic Heritage Month begins today.
Students in grades 5-12 work in groups to research and present projects on Hispanic culture through PowerPoint, a webpage, a display, or an interactive tool such as the flip book or stapleless book.

Additional Lesson Plans

Smithsonian Education - Hispanic Heritage Teaching Resources
Lessons for grades K-12.

Hispanic Heritage Month
Lessons, activities, interactives, and resources for grades K-12.

Activities

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (K-8)
Interactive timelines, scavenger hunts, and other learning fun all about Hispanic Americans.

25 Great Ideas for Hispanic Heritage (K-12)
From Aztec math to Carnival masks, these ideas are easy to put together and offer students the chance to celebrate their own heritage while appreciating the uniqueness of others.

Fact Monster - Hispanic Heritage Month Activities
Crosswords, population statistics, and more.

Colorin Colorado - Hispanic Heritage Month
Information, puzzles, biographies for English language learners. In English and Spanish.

Latino Recipes & Culture - Hispanic Heritage (K-5)

Printables

Hispanic Heroes Printables (K-5)
Coloring pages and hero cards for sports, science, politics, and the arts.

Background Resources

Smithsonian - Celebrating Hispanic Heritage, People & Places
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Smithsonian.com discusses the changing demographics of the United States, talks with comedian George Lopez on humor and race, remembers a historic Little League Baseball team and highlights the food of Hispanic culture.

Library of Congress - Hispanic Heritage Month
Images, exhibits, audio, and video.

Biography.com - Hispanic Heritage Month
Brief biographies, photo gallery, classroom resources, trivia game, and more.

Gale, Cengage Learning - Hispanic Heritage
Activities, biographies, music, timeline, and quiz

Smithsonian - Hispanic Heritage Cultural Tour
Virtual tour, timeline, activities, quiz, and resources

Quizzes

• Hispanic America: People
• Hispanic Americans
• Hispanic America: Geography
• Hispanic America: More Geography
• Hispanic America: Cultural Spanish

Multimedia

Music

• Mariachi Music Online
  Free downloads and brief artist biographies.

Video

• History of Mexico