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Qu¿¿ tiempo hace?
Middle schoolers use the internet to gather information on Spanish cities and its weather. After completing a worksheet, they compare and contrast the weather conditions for the cities they researched. They share their information with...
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Creating Family Trees
Students make presentations about families. They make family trees and present orally to the class.
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Write a Caption!
Students examine different photographs from around the world. They write their own captions in the foreign language to the image. They share their captions with the class.
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What's New? Translating Foreign Newspapers With Word
Students copy and paste foreign newspaper articles into a Word document, convert the passage to table format and then use the table to translate the words of the original article into English.
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Days of the Week/Los D??as De La Semana
Students examine the days of the week in Spanish. They demonstrate the pronunciation of each word, create flashcards using cut out magazine pictures for each day of the week, and arrange the flashcards sequentially.
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Talk to Me
Students investigate communication techniques using variations in the tone of the voice, facial expressions, and gestures. The image of Helen Keller which appears on the reverse side of the Alabama quarter forms the basis of the...
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Spanish Colors and Clothing
Students practice Spanish words for colors and clothing through a variety of activities. The clothing that they are wearing becomes a medium for vocabulary review and part of the lesson's content.
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Production of the Four Tones of the Chinese Language
Students pronounce the four tones of the Chinese language. They play a red light-green light game in which they advance if they say words correctly.
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De Colores
Learners listen to the song, De Colores, and list the colors heard in the song. They create murals, describe the murals in Spanish, and describe how colors change their endings according to the nouns they modify.
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La Mochila (The Backpack)
Students examine objects, labeled in Spanish, that are common items found in a backpack. They write simple sentences in Spanish listing the items from the backpack.
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Los Opuestos (Opposites)
Students examine and discuss various pairs of opposites, repeating the words in Spanish. They draw a picture to illustrate each opposite and write sentences containing the Spanish opposites.
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Ser y Estar
Middle schoolers describe the physical characteristics of animals or people, using the correct form of ser and estar. They draw pictures of people expressing different emotions and write sentences describing the emotions, using the...
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Survivor Interview
Students practice listening and speaking skills in a foreign language, and participate in a dialog with a Holocaust survivor.
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The Relatedness of Languages
Students use Internet and library resources to select and examine the origins of phrases or words, particularly words that have origins in other languages.
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The "Me" Quilt
Students share their interests and characteristics by making patches about themselves. The patches are joined together to make a class quilt.
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The Latin American Mercado
Pupils spend a week learning the importance of the marketplace in Latin American life. They study and create products for their market and then role-play vendors and sellers for two days, practicing their bargaining skills and their...
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Forming a WH Question in American Sign Language
Students use the correct sign for the five WH question words with the appropriate facial expression to accurately form questions in ASL.
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Multiplication & Division Word Problems, Bilingual (Middle, Mathematics)
Students use multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction to solve problems; Estudiantes utiliza la multiplicaci??n, la divisi??n, la suma, y la resta para hacer los siguientes
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Using the Internet for Grammar Exercises
Students identify correct forms of verbs and use the internet to complete grammar exercises.
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Describing Family - Lesson Plan
Students describe their family in their new language French. They use adjectives, and proper gender. Then they describe how the family is alike and different.
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Say "Thank You" in 100 Languages!
Students put the "Thanks" back in Thanksgiving with this geography and language activity that teaches students to say "thank you" in many languages.
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Test for Spanish Speakers
In this translation learning exercise, learners translate the Spanish sentences into English sentences. Students then correct the mistakes in the 8 sentences and answer the 10 questions in Spanish.
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Elder's Cloud Observations
Students study cloud types and Native language terms for clouds and cloud types. In this cloud types lesson, students listen to a Native American speaker discuss clouds and the words used to describe clouds. Students complete a worksheet...
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French Seasonal Round Worksheet
In this seasonal round worksheet, students record data on a graphic organizer that features the 12 months. The organizer displays the month in French.