Student Work

This was an advanced grade 8 project from Unidad 2, La salud. Students used Google Slides to create infographics about a health concern providing recommendations and outlining the main symptoms and consequences.

This was an advanced grade 7 project from Unidad 9, las compras. Students used a shared Google Slide presentation to describe modern or traditional clothing. Students who chose the traditional option had to explain the cultural significance of the clothing as part of our discussion of clothing as cultural symbol in indigenous cultures of Latin America. Students that were heritage speakers or bilingual did the collage on their countries of origin.

As part of Unidad 1 – Viajar por el mundo, the advanced 8th grade class studied sustainable tourism in Central America. These two students created this video together.

This was a graded classwork assignment that students created collaboratively. They used a primary resource (casta paintings of colonial Mexico) to make inferences about family and social class in colonial Latin America.

This was a “peer teaching” project where students compared the past and present tense of irregular Preterit verbs. It was called “Adopt a verb” and the students were very proud of showing off their “verb babies.”

This group project was for 8th grade level 1 class. First, they researched 10 of the most common childhood illnesses in Latin America. After reading the article, they decided which disease they wanted to analyze as a group. Once they had chosen the disease, they created an interest slide and altogether the class chose three or four different diseases. In groups of four they outlined the symptoms, treatment, and how prevalent the disease is in Latin America.

This is a reflection template for level 1 students that I adapted from a high school history teacher named Amanda Sandoval. In this version, students responded to a video vlog about the Afro-Colombian city of Palenque. They were able to choose a Flipgrid response or a written one. 

This was a unit project for level two students in grade seven. I wanted to combine the interactive learning of Google Expeditions with the usability of Pear Deck. They worked in groups to present an endangered animal, share interesting facts about them, and ask several comprehension questions. The challenge was not only to write detailed content but to also incorporate interactive elements like 360 Google Maps images and video, which I then put into Pear Deck format. They shared these projects with both levels one and two students. 

This was a unit project for level one students in grade seven. They worked in groups to describe an endangered animal and ways we can help prevent its extinction using related vocabulary and grammar points. They then presented their work to peers in both levels one and two.