Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Web Japan: Japan Fact Sheet
This site actually provides a number of "fact sheets" on a range of topics related to Japan's geography, government, economy, culture, society, and sports. Read online or download handy PDF documents for classroom use. The site has...
Digital History
Digital History: Spanish America
Read about Spanish influence in the northern part of its empire in America. See what American cowboys borrowed from the vaqueros, and how Spanish architecture came to spread across the Southwest.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Las Tiendas
This site has a cultural explanation in Spanish and English with a few comprehension questions about stores in Spanish-speaking countries. Additional links are provided for more information on this topic. Great reading selection for...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Quezaltenango
Online cultural explanation in Spanish and English with a few comprehension questions about Quezaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala. Great reading selection for beginning and intermediate Spanish students.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: El Tango
This site has a cultural explanation in Spanish or English with a few comprehension questions about the tango. Additional links are provided for more information on this dance that originated in Buenos Aires. Great reading selection for...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: La Peninsula De Yucatan
This site has a cultural explanation in Spanish or English with a few comprehension questions about the Yucatan peninsula. Additional links are provided for more information on this topic. Great reading selection for beginning and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain
Students research the history and the traditions surrounding the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, and bullfighting and its significance to the Spanish culture. Students submit a typed report on their findings and in pairs present...
Other
Multicultural Literature for Children: Abuela's Weave
This lesson plan is perfect in an ESL classroom. "Abuela's Weave" is the story of a young girl from Guatemala and the beautiful tapestry she creates. Includes prereading questions, vocabulary, and activities to integrate into other...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Informal Commands (Part 1)
Practice forming affirmative and negative tu commands with reflexive pronouns in this Spanish tutorial. Infinitives are provided as cues for the exercise as well as stem-changers, spelling changes, and regular and irregular command forms.
Other
Biblioteca Nacional De Chile: Chile Para Ninos
Culture-related Spanish content for kids: stories, photos of Chilean cultural sites and objects, games, and songs that communicate Chilean traditions.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Negative and Affirmative Words
Colby College offers a fill in the blank exercise that gives the user practice in determining which negative or affirmative word to use. Photos of new food vocabulary words are also accessible by clicking on the underlined word.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Demonstrative Adjectives
Online exercises with demonstrative adjectives and brilliant photos to help in answering the fill-in-the blanks.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Future of the Environment
Colby College offers exercises on the future of the environment from the perspectives of an optimist and of a pessimist provide great practice with the future tense.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Progressive Tense
Comprehensive online practice from Colby College is available for the present progressive tense. Regular, irregular, and stem-changing participles are included in this exercise. Utilize this self-grading online worksheet to help improve...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Spanish Reflexive Verbs Exercises
This site is great practice from Colby College with some of the more common reflexive verbs. This exercise is not as concerned with testing grammatical applications as it is with testing for the meaning of the reflexive verb in context....
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Reflexive Verbs in Song
Complete the lyrics of a song with a variety of reflexive constructions. A great way to review some basic reflexive verbs and become familiar with other reflexive verbs that are not so basic.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Perfect Tense
Review examples and then complete three online exercises dealing with the present perfect tense. English translations are provided for some of the examples. The first exercise provides verb infinitives as cues for the present perfect...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Other Worlds the Voyage of Columbus
This site has a lesson plan designed for grades 9-12. The lesson plan deals with understanding the culture from which Columbus came, Renaissance Europe, and the culture he found in the New World.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Future Tense and a Poem
Excellent presentation of the future tense in a poem, "Novia del campo, amapola."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Collection
Informational text and Alaska Native culture form the basis of the groundbreaking MOLLY OF DENALI series and its educational resources. The MOLLY OF DENALI collection offers videos, digital games, lessons, teaching tips, and activities...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Collection
Informational text and Alaska Native culture form the basis of the groundbreaking MOLLY OF DENALI series and its educational resources. The MOLLY OF DENALI collection offers videos, digital games, lessons, teaching tips, and activities...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Conditional Perfect Tense
Short online exercises from the Colby College that provide practice with understanding the conditional perfect tense. Click on the underlined words to get beautiful photos of the description of the word.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: #2 "Por" or "Para"
Choose "por" or "para" to complete each sentence. Pass the cursor over the highlighted preposition to check your answer and to get an explanation of its use.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Informal Commands (Part 2)
Practice answering questions with affirmative and negative tu commands and direct and indirect object pronouns. Stem-changers, spelling changes, regular and irregular command forms are included in this exercise.