Hispano History Lessons : Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area
Primary Source Sets
Alamosa, Blanca, and La Jara – Early Photos : Click here
Carnivals and Races in the San Luis Valley : Click here
Education in the San Luis Valley : Click here
Family Life and Women in the San Luis Valley : Click here
Farming in the San Luis Valley, 1930s Onward : Click here
Founding of San Luis & Map of Sangre de Cristo Grant : Click here
Hispanic Businesses around 1900 : Click here
Hispanic Cultural and Social Activity around 1900 : Click here
Hispanic Family Milestones around 1900 : Click here
Hispanic Political Involvement around 1900 : Click here
Hispanic Sheepherders vs. Anglo Cattlemen around 1900 : Click here
Labor and Union History in the San Luis Valley : Click here
Music and Art in the San Luis Valley : Click here
Religion among Hispanics in the San Luis Valley : Click here
School Segregation around 1900 : Click here
Use of Spanish around 1900 : Click here
Water and Farming around 1900 : Click here
Lesson Categories: Hispanic History, Land, Art
Audience: Grades 1-2
Lesson Overview: Through a variety of primary sources, students will practice analyzing skills to understand how Latinos have had an impact on Colorado’s farming industry. Students will create a poster.
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Lesson Topic(s): Culture/Identity Issues
Categories: Hispano History, Art, Spanish Language
Audience: Grades 9-12
Lesson Overview: During this unit of study, we will explore the meaning of identity vocabulary for a culturally and linguistically diverse student. The students complete an identity square that is made into a classroom quilt.
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Lesson Topic(s): Culture/Identity Issues/Traditions
Categories: Hispano History
Audience: Grades 4-5, but can be modified for any grade
Lesson Overview: This lesson is designed to be an extension by a PE teacher for a classroom teacher who is teaching about local Boulder or Colorado history. It can also be taken into a classroom if a teacher wants some fun activities to do along with teaching about history. The lesson allows students to simulate some of the physical activities immigrants had to do when they came to Colorado. All stations have cue cards that have excerpts straight from the Boulder County Latino History Project website.
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Category: Hispano History
Audience: Grade 4
Lesson Overview: This lesson will focus on an inspiring member of our community, Lawrence Medina. Lawrence is a Latino who has a vast history working around our school and our community.
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Categories: Community, Culture, Economic Activity, Family, Hispano History, Land & Farming
Audience: Grade 1, but can easily be adapted for other grade levels.
Lesson Overview: Through a variety of primary sources, students will practice analyzing skills to understand how Latinos and children have had an impact on Colorado’s and the nation’s farming industry. Students will create a poster on Cesar Chavez and the role he played in the farming industry.
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Categories: Art, Culture, Family, Hispano History, People
Audience: Kindergarten, but can easily be adapted for other grade levels.
Lesson Overview: Students will orally analyze primary source photographs of past and present family members. Students will bring photographs of their great grandparents, grandparents and parents. They will each get a Picture/Photograph Analysis Sheet to analysis their photos. Students will use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast photographs of family members past and present.
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Categories: Culture, Hispano History, Native American History, People
Audience: Grade 3
Lesson Overview: Students will compare traditions in their community to traditions outside their community. Students will use their personal experience to connect to the curriculum. They will share their family culture and traditions to understand how groups of people connect to the environment.
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Categories: Culture, Hispano History, People
Audience: Grades 3 to 5
Lesson Overview: This lesson will help students understand how the culture of our area has been shaped by various cultures around the world. It will help them to gain an understanding/appreciation of immigration and the cultures of their ancestors, as well as other cultures.
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Categories: Culture, Hispano History, People
Audience: High School English Language Learner
Lesson Overview: Studying the Past-Who are you? What made you? Research and present three topics of interest from your/the past using La Raza videos and make connections with San Luis Valley Latino History. Beginning of the school year unit to get to know long-term English Language Learner [ELL] students and have them get to know themselves.
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Categories: Hispano History, People
Audience: High School
Lesson Overview: Students will investigate working conditions and relationships between workers and land/company owners in various occupations. This lesson would fit well during a unit on Industrialization, Muckraking and/or Progressivism.
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Categories: Hispano History, Land & Farming, People
Audience: Grades 1 & 2
Lesson Overview: Through a variety of primary sources, students will practice analyzing skills to understand how Latinos have had an impact on Colorado’s farming industry. Students will create a poster.
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Categories: Culture, Hispano History, Land & Farming, Native American History
Audience: Middle School
Lesson Overview: This lesson will focus on comparing and contrasting herbs and plants used
in historical medicinal remedies with modern medicines and remedies. It will also allow the evaluation of the environments these plants and herb are located in.
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Categories: Community Activism, Culture, Economic Activity, Hispano History, Historic Places, People
Audience: Grades 6 – 8
Lesson Overview: La Sociadad de las Mujeres de el SPMDTU.
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Categories: Community Activism, Hispano History
Audience: Grade 10
Lesson Overview: For this lesson students will research different time periods, places, and events involving early Hispanic workers’ movements and Latino/ Chicano Civil Rights activities. Students will be expected to choose at least two different time periods (e.g., early 20th century or 1960s and the present) and create two different “protest” posters for each time period. Students will create a total of four protest posters that include a slogan and an image on the front and a detailed summary of the event on the back.
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