Theme: Mexico
Subject: Social Studies
Grade level: K- 2
Objectives:
The student shall demonstrate knowledge of the ethnic and national backgrounds of community members.
The student shall demonstrate knowledge of the geographic location of major places on earth.

Materials and Resources:

• Map printout with info http://www.enchantedlearning.com:80/school/Mexico/Mapprintout.shtml
  
• Map labeling http://www.enchantedlearning.com:80/school/Mexico/labelmap/label.shtml
  
• Map quiz http://www.enchantedlearning.com:80/school/Mexico/Mapquiz.shtml
  
• The Mexican flag http://www.enchantedlearning.com:80/school/Mexico/Flagprintout.shtml
  
• Explorers http://www.enchantedlearning.com:80/explorers/mexico.shtml
  
• Aztec culture
  

• Make Corn Cakes http://teacher.scholastic.com/hispanic/act3.htm
  
• Make Enchiladas http://teacher.scholastic.com/hispanic/act3b.htm
  
• Mama’s Birthday Present by Carmet Tafolla, illus. Juvenal Martinez
  
• My Mexico-Mexico Mio by Tony Johnson, Illus. F. John Sierra
  
• Guest speakers: Mrs. M. (Transition teacher), Mrs. L (ESL teacher), Mrs. B. (parent)
  
• Field trip to Taco Bell.
  

• Read Mama’s Birthday Present by Carmet Tafolla, illus. Juvenal Martinez
  
• Read My Mexico-Mexico Mio by Tony Johnson, Illus. F. John Sierra
  
• Label a map of Mexico.
  
• Write a report about a Spanish explorer or Aztec Indian.
  
• Make corn cakes and enchiladas.
  
  

• Where is Mexico?
  
• Has anyone every traveled to Mexico?
  
• How are children in Mexico the same as the children where you live? How are they different?
  
  

• Cinco de Mayo by Lola M. Schaefer
  
• Hello, Amigos! by Tricia Brown, photographs by Fran Ortiz
  
• In Rosa’s Mexico by Campbell Geeslin, Illus. Andrea Arroyo
  
• A Family in Mexico by Peter Otto Jacobsen
  
• Cesar Chavez and La Causa by Naurice Roberts (Large print.
  

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