Spanish 3 · Week 30 · Decisiones, mitos y realidad
El mar de Salton
Students consider how the Salton Sea affects families in Mecca and North Shore and propose what the community could do.
- Students will
- Students use the future and conditional with environment vocabulary to explain how the Salton Sea affects Mecca and North Shore and propose community actions.
- SEL skill
- Consider how an environmental issue affects neighbors differently
- What it looks like
- Students build empathy and perspective by considering how an environmental issue affects neighbors in different ways.
- Content focus
- Future and conditional with environment vocabulary
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness is seeing situations through other people's eyes and caring about them, including people whose backgrounds differ from yours. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- WL.CM1.I: Communication Standard 1, Interpretive Communication (Intermediate range)
- WL.CN1.I: Connections Standard 1, Connections to Other Disciplines (Intermediate range)
- WL.CN2.I: Connections Standard 2, Diverse Perspectives and Distinctive Viewpoints (Intermediate range)
- National (ACTFL World Readiness): Acquiring Information and Diverse Perspectives, Interpretive Communication, Making Connections, Relating Cultural Products and Practices to Perspectives
- Proficiency range: Intermediate
Fits these textbook chapters
- Auténtico 3, Capítulo 8: Encuentro entre culturas
- Auténtico 3, Capítulo 9: Cuidemos nuestro planeta
- Realidades 3, Capítulo 9: Cuidemos nuestro planeta
- Senderos 3, Lección 1: La naturaleza
- EntreCulturas 3, Unidad 4: Una comunidad sostenible
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More social awareness activities for Spanish 3
- Mi valle, muchas historias Social awarenessReading about Cahuilla and farmworker histories of the valley, students narrate how other people experienced the same place.
- Los murales cuentan historias Social awarenessStudying Chicano murals in Coachella's "Pueblo Viejo", students infer the stories and struggles the artists wanted told.
- Te recomiendo que Social awarenessStudents give advice with the subjunctive only after listening fully to a peer's problem and reflecting it back.
- Las manos del valle Social awarenessLearning about Coachella Valley farmworkers and the UFW, students recognize the labor behind the food they eat.
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