Topic: Hispanic Culture
Target Audience: 6-12+
Hispanic Culture Online is a wonderful website for students to explore the
customs and traditions of the Hispanic world. I believe too often Spanish classes
focus primarily on the language and do not focus enough on the Hispanic culture, this
website provides students with the ability to really see how the Hispanic people live;
what they buy, what the eat, what they believe.
The website includes a Hispanic Culture Blog which focuses on the traditions,
culture, language and products of Spanish America. Students can interact with the
website and other users through their use of this blog!
The site includes information on all things Latin American including:
Latin home and decorations, famous Hispanic people and interviews, jewelry, cuisine,
cooking, and recipes, traditions and faith, hispanic holidays, and travel.
The site is wonderful for all things cultural, but also provides spanish learning tools
and software for struggling students to use at home. The website can be used by
teachers and students alike to explore and investigate Latin American culture, while
also being used as a type of inquiry based learning.
I really enjoy looking at the content of the language arts subjects. I find these subjects very interesting because so much of the content involves topics that are a part of a student's own culture but the students need assistance to understand the application of the topic within another culture.
ReplyDeleteI see how these similar connections would really engage students and the website does a good job of mixing different topics. The broad range of topics that are covered by the website would provide a little bit for everyone. Plus it has information about food, so that alone places it as a high value website.
I love culture stuff (which is a bit ironic, I suppose, because the only reason I read Roman culture pieces is so that I can understand the language of my reading better). This website will make a great enhancement to your curriculum. One question--how will you use it? Will you just give them the URL and set them loose, or will you have assignments attached to the content of the site?
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