Mexico Scavenger Hunt & Digital Bulletin Board for Elementary

This scavenger hunt activity and digital bulletin board is perfect for celebrating Mexico Independence Day and Cinco de Mayo. It includes a scavenger hunt, fun facts, a mystery animal, Mexico landmarks, Spanish vocabulary words, and more!

This product has 44 slides & pages, and includes:

• 35-slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint + Google Slides
  • All body text is editable; you choose which slides you want to use.
  • 35 slides are the Digital Bulletin Board “scrolling slides” for students to view.
  • This presentation is for entertainment and communication. Students will learn a lot about the science of spring, but it is NOT meant to be a formal direct-instruction lesson.
• Editable, differentiated scavenger hunt (2 pages, PowerPoint and PDF)
  • Students watch the presentation to find the images and answers to five questions about Mexico (all are in the presentation).
  • This gives students something to focus on during library checkout and downtime.
  • Answer key is included.
• List of 24 recommended books to accompany this lesson (1 page, PowerPoint and PDF)
  • 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)

35 Digital Bulletin Board Slides:

• Vocabulary Word of the Week: “custom”
• Library Skill: Which Dewey section would have a English-Spanish Dictionary? (multiple choice question; includes answer slide)
• Staff Spotlight: Spanish teacher (or can change if your school does not have a Spanish teacher)
• Spanish vocabulary (multiple words including hello, food, drinks, cat, dog, bird, beach, mountains)
• Cinco de Mayo
• What’s that mystery animal? (includes 3 clues)
• Landmarks in Mexico (Tulum, Chichen-Itza, Mexico City)
• Volcanoes
• Mexican Independence Day
• Mexican foods (empanadas, tres leches cake, churros, tamales, quesadilla)
• Animals that live in Mexico (opossum, coati, spider monkey, tarantula)
• This week’s birthdays
• Daily and weekly schedule
• Library and school announcement template slides
• Coming Soon…
• Reminders

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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