Get your middle and high school students excited for Hispanic Heritage Month in September and October with this digital bulletin board! This scrolling slideshow includes poems, fun facts, trivia, booktalks, would-you-rather’s, space for library and school announcements, and more.
This product has 48 slides and it includes:
- 57-slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint + Google Slides
- All body text is editable; you choose which slides you want to use.
- This presentation is for entertainment and communication. It is NOT meant to be a formal direct instruction library lesson.
- Recommended Reads to accompany the presentation (1 page, PowerPoint and PDF)
- Includes 27 middle school and young adult (YA) titles.
- The list is editable and great to hand out to parents, teachers, and students looking for related books.
- Google Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
- Instructions on how to set up PowerPoint slide timings for digital bulletin boards (2 pages, PDF)
57 Digital Bulletin Board Slides:
- Words of the Week: “landlocked”, “embargo,” and “isthmus”
- differences between the words Hispanic and Latin American
- differences between the words Latino, Latina, Latine, and Latinx
- Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 – October 15
- smallest Central American country
- map of Central America
- 12 South American countries do not include French Guiana, which is French
- southernmost point of South America
- Bolivia has two capital cities
- foods – empanadas, The Completo (Chilean hot dog), Oaxaca cheese,
- why Cuba has so many classic cars
- U.S. embargo on Cuba and the United Nations (UN) position it
- Brazilians speak Portuguese
- Paraguay and Bolivia are landlocked
- Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory
- Famous Hispanic people:
- Lionel Messi (footballer / soccer player, Argentina),
- Sonia Sotomayor (U.S. Supreme Court justice),
- Dolores Huerta (activist and feminist),
- Símon Bolívar (military leader, Venezuela),
- Eva Perón (former First Lady of Argentina),
- Frida Kahlo (artist, Mexico),
- Fidel Castro (former President of Cuba),
- Cesar Chavez (activist), and
- Selena Quintanilla Pérez (Tejano singer).
- Latin American landmarks:
- San Salvador Volcano (El Salvador),
- Águila Islet, Diego Ramírez Islands (Chile),
- Machu Picchu (Peru),
- Darién Gap (Colombia and Panama),
- Panama Canal (Panama),
- Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia),
- El Yunque National Forest (Puerto Rico), and
- Iguazú Falls (Brazil and Argentina).
- Would You Rather questions
- Did You Know questions
- Trivia questions with answers
- Daily and weekly schedule
- This week’s birthdays
Standards Addressed:
AASL National School Library Standards – See the AASL Standards Framework for Learners to view full text.
- Inquire – C.1. – D.1.
- Explore – A.1. – C.1.
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