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Category Archives: Environment & Ecology
los fenómenos naturales y los seres humanos
Our essential question for the official, textbook related “environment” chapter in our Spanish 3 class is “How does the natural world impact you (human beings)? How do you (human beings) impact the natural world? This question, of course, unnaturally plucks … Continue reading
cosas que puedes hacer con Cajas de Cartón, parte 2
Environment and sense of place Environment, climate and geography play an out-sized role in the lives of Panchito’s family, and others like them, by pushing them towards new places as single crops planted in large scale for the national market ripen … Continue reading
cosas que puedes hacer con Cajas de Cartón (el cuento corto), Parte 1
Students can get into Cajas de Cartón, the widely-read short story by Francisco Jiménez, by examining sustainability themes. The ideas below focus on using the title to explore multiple perspectives and experiences within the story and beyond, as well creative … Continue reading
Actividades ambientales fáciles que puedes hacer con las clases
Looking for meaningful ways to help students put their language skills into action? This web site from Chile, El Libro Verde de los Niños, includes instructions in simple language (lots of informal commands, basic vocabulary) for projects, experiments and environmental … Continue reading
Vamos a la playa
Vamos a la playa, a mí me gusta……¿bailar? ¿nadar? ¿tomar el sol? ¿LIMPIAR? My students love to talk about (and sing about) the beach. But no one likes to see the trash that washes up on shore. This September 2012 … Continue reading
actividades de comprensión auditiva
Radioteca is a web site dedicated to un intercambio de audios. You can listen to or download free authentic Spanish-language radio spots, stories, news reports, interviews, literature and more from a wide range of countries. Audios can be thirty seconds … Continue reading
La Conquista de las Américas
It is difficult to avoid the implicit (and at times explicit) racism in most re-tellings of the conquest of the Americas: ”The defeat of the Aztec and Incan civilizations by small bands of Spanish conquistadores must reflect the superiority of … Continue reading
Tox Town y la Salud Ambiental
“¿Sabe usted qué riesgos para la salud ambiental existen en su comunidad?” The National Library of Medicine has produced a Spanish-language version of Tox Town, an interactive web site created for children to learn about health hazards in their environment. … Continue reading
más sobre los árboles: la diversidad, la historia, la literatura…
In the sixteenth century when the Jesuits, for better or worse, carved out their missions deep in the forests of South America, they came across a tree they named quebracho–”quiebra hacha” or “axe breaker”–for the surprising heaviness and hardness of the … Continue reading
Cuentos: La Vida en el Bosque Tropical
You’re probably familiar with the Rain Forest Alliance. In addition to the Spanish-language version of their web site and excellent curriculum materials in English, you can download seven libros de cuentos virtuales about children living in rain forests in Central … Continue reading
