Students will research an Afro-indigenous group’s culturally relevant sustainability practices and creatively share their understanding of that practice’s impact on local sustainable ecological management.
Students will gain insight into the relationship between multiplication and place value by learning to recognize and draw various arrays.
As a class, start by reading the excerpt on the first worksheet and create definitions of the key words. The student will then complete sentences with the words on their own (two different worksheets). Next the teacher will show a youtube video to help students complete a comic strip assignment. Lastly, the student will answer questions on the video they watched.
Art activity 85 pages
Content available through third party platform for a fee
Art activity 85 pages
Content available through third party platform for a fee
Art activity on the topic of race, ethnicity and identity (not strict to Afro-Latinx but can be incorporated with other lessons)
“‘They Want to Erase That Past’: Examining Race and Afro-Latin@ Identity with Bilingual Third Graders” is an academic article by Melissa Adams and Christopher Busey explaining their incorporation of Afro-Latinx content through a month of curriculum content in a third grade classroom, aligning with subject-specific learning standards in social studies, reading, math, and art. Topics covered and curriculum standard alignments are included. A short list of children’s books is also provided.
A bitmoji classroom (powered by Google Slides) by The Heritage Team Extraordinaire, offering links and educational ideas that provide a foundation of information, from which educators can build innovative and creative lessons and activities. Includes the following:
Pre-Test
What is Afro Latinidad?
The Truth About Afro Latinos
Afro Latinidad History
Colorism (includes tips for combatting colorism and implicit bias in your classroom)
Connection between Black History and Hispanics
Historical Figure Contributions
Cultural Influence
Struggles and Marginalization