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. 

Students will virtually visit the Afróntalo exhibition, learning about the erasure of Afrodescendants in Mexico, their history and culture, and the contributions of Afrodescendants in Mexico and California.

This content contains two activities with the learning objectives of understanding key ideas and details, integration of knowledge and Ideas, and comprehension and collaboration.Students start by answering three pre-video questions regarding information they already know about Puerto Rico. They will then read “La Guinea (The Stowaway Hen)” from the book The Song of El Coquí and Other Tales of Puerto Rico by Nicholasa Mohr and Antonio Martore. After reading the story, students will answer six questions based on what they learned. The second activity is an observational activity based on a virtual exhibit of the Teodoro Vidal Collection of Puerto Rican History.

Note:The virtual exhibit for the second activity is no longer available, but some information about the exhibit and highlights of the collection that was on display are still accessible. A Spanish version of this lesson plan is located here

Completed within the context of the collaborative work between the teachers from the Escuela Normal Superior N°2 “Mariano Acosta” located in Buenos Aires and the Agrupación Afro Xangô. The units were developed by student teachers with the supervision of Mr. Esteban Sottile, a teacher at the institution. This section contains the final work of Mariano Acosta students: María Belén Iglesias, Soledad Canteros, Ileana Di Vruno, Paola Kler, and Lucas Barrientos.

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 

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Art activity 85 pages 

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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