Martin Luther King Day cultural activities for ESL-EFL-ELL under $5

This is a restaurant menu project for Spanish I. Students will design a restaurant menu that serves traditional Spanish dishes from a Spanish-speaking country of their choice. This project includes an introduction page with all the project requirements, 2 restaurant menu examples, a 2-page project planner/graphic organizer, and a grading rubric for student presentations. Project Requirements: * A menu cover with the restaurant name in Spanish, the days and hours of operation, address, and phon

Subjects:

Projects, Graphic Organizers, Cultural Activities

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Flags of Spanish-Speaking Countries Coloring Sheets

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This is a 2 page coloring activity with the 21 flags of the Spanish-speaking world. Students follow a color by number key to color in each section of the flags. Only five colors are needed: rojo, amarillo, verde, azul cielo, and azul (red, yellow, green, sky blue, and blue). This is a great activity when reviewing Spanish-speaking countries, Hispanic culture, holidays, colors, or as an emergency substitute activity. Can be printed 2 sided or separately. Makes a great classroom decoration. Exampl

Subjects:

Printables, Cultural Activities

Grades:

K - 10th

Types:

Also included in: Spanish Countries and Capitals Geography Bundle

ESL Activities: Conversation Cards

Created by

A Classroom for All Seasons

These are 72 conversation cards for your ESL classroom. They can be used as a warm up activity and are a great way to get students settled in at the beginning of class. In addition, they can also be used as writing prompts. Each topic is color coded. The topics include• “Getting to Know You”• “Food”• “Your Neighborhood/ Housing”• “Free Time”• “Feelings/Emotions”• “The Past”• “Holidays”• “The Future”• “If…” (Conditional)ESL Conversation Cards Set 2 is available here ESL Activities: Conversatio

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, ESL / ELL / EFL

Grades:

6th - 12th, Adult Education

Types:

Cultural Activities

Also included in: ESL Speaking Activities: Bundle

Long Ago & Now Grandparent Day Interview Activity, Family Tree, Student Timeline

Created by

What I Have Learned

Introduce your students to their family history with this fantastic Long Ago & Now Grandparent Interview Activity, Family Tree, and Student Timeline. This lesson series uses compare and contrast strategies to help students understand how their lives are similar to or different from their grandparents' lives. It makes for a great Grandparents' Day activity! Plus, the strong home-to-school connection will help keep everyone involved and excited about learning. This mini-unit is in my Long Ago

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Other (Social Studies - History)

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Social Studies BUNDLE - Biography Report, Long Ago, Map Skills, Laws & Nations

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Dr. MLK Day Craft Pre-K, Kindergarten, First

Created by

exploretk

This craft contains two quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Students can color in the heart or rip apart skin-tone colored construction paper to represent that even though humans are all different, together we are stronger and together we can create love. **This product is geared towards preschool, kindergarten, and lower elementary education students with an idea of representation and love for all**Mount on construction paper and laminate. Updated January 2024

Subjects:

Black History Month, Martin Luther King Day, Social Studies - History

Grades:

PreK - 5th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Cultural Activities

Survival Words and Phrases for ESL Newcomers - ESL Visuals, ESL Picture Cards

Created by

Inspiring Young Learners --- Beth Vaucher

The best place to begin to support ELL Newcomers is through vocabulary and visuals. This set of survival flashcards will help you provide your students with exactly that type of support. These flashcards are great to print, laminate, and give to your newcomers to carry around with them to all classes. Each flashcard has a voiced over QR code so that the students can listen and practice the vocabulary on their own at home. Let's Connect!Looking for more support?Click here to sign up for a free ye

Subjects:

Back to School, EFL - ESL - ELD, Vocabulary

Grades:

K - 5th

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas, Cultural Activities, For Principals & Administrators

Also included in: ESL Newcomers Beginning of the Year Activities - ESL Back to School First Week

Cinco de Mayo Craft {Pinata Fiesta Fun with Mexico Symbols}

Created by

Robin Sellers

Cinco de Mayo: Cinco de Mayo fun! This Cinco de Mayo craft is a pinata that your students can make for some Mexico Fiesta Fun! Students color or paint the black and white printable pages. It includes Mexico symbols including a map outline of Mexico, a Mexican flag, a guitar, a monarch butterfly, a cactus, a sombrero, and a pepper. Each on of these items in accompanied by a candy that has the name for the symbol in English and Spanish. You can choose to use both of these labels if you wish. There

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Social Studies - History, Spring

Grades:

PreK - 4th

Types:

Activities, Bulletin Board Ideas, Cultural Activities

Papel Picado Tissue Banners

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This is a set of 5 papel picado templates for making a colorful tissue paper banner. This is a fun craft for secondary students to make and display when celebrating Hispanic holidays such as Cinco de Mayo, Hispanic Heritage Month, or Mexico's Independence Day. You may choose to have younger students simply color in the templates and display them on the walls. These templates are available in both color and blackline. They make a great festive decoration as a boarder around your classroom walls.

Subjects:

Printables, Cultural Activities

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Also included in: Hispanic Heritage Month Projects and Activities Bundle

Martin Luther King Jr. Day STEM Activity with Writing Extension

Created by

Carly and Adam STEM Activities and Challenges

Martin Luther King Jr. (Integrated Math, Reading, and Writing Activities Included!)Students receive a letter from Martin Luther King Jr. giving facts about his life and instructing students to create a podium that he will use to deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. A fun and engaging MLK Day activity!Includes writing pages for students to write about their dreams. Math activities are included as well that cover geometry standards including 2D and 3D shapes, shape attributes (faces, edges,

Subjects:

Black History Month, Engineering, Martin Luther King Day

Grades:

1st - 5th

Types:

Martin Luther King Day, Social Studies - History, Writing

CCSS:

3.MD.C.7b

, 4.MD.A.3

, 1.G.A.2

, 2.G.A.1

, RI.1.10

...

NGSS:

K-2-ETS1-2

, K-2-ETS1-3

, K-2-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-3

, 3-5-ETS1-1

...

Also included in: Winter STEM Activities and Challenges Bundle

Martin Luther King Jr | Peace Craft and Writing

Created by

Curiosity in K

Use this resource to teach about civil rights and spreading peace. This resource asks the students to consider how they can be peacemakers and spread peace around the world. Simply print the black and white printable or use the other components of this resource to create your own unique peace craft. I use this every year on MLK Day to celebrate his peaceful stance on changing the world! It can also be used on World Kindness Day or incorporated to many other social studies or writing lessons! Thi

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Activities, Printables, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

CCRA.W.4

Spanish Quinceañeras: Reading and Substitute Plan

Created by

SrtaEstrella Emergency Spanish Sub Plans

This reading a good emergency substitute plan to keep handy. It includes three articles on Quinceañeras as well as comprehension questions following each article. The articles are written in English, so any level of Spanish can use it. Also included is a crossword puzzle featuring some of the terms from the articles and a key.Also check out my Quinceañera planning project:My Dream Quinceañera Planning ProjectAnd my Quinceañera Puzzles Pack here with additional puzzles: Quinceañera Puzzles PackKe

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Reading, Spanish

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Cultural Activities

Black History Month Collaborative Poster Door Decoration BHM

Created by

Teachin' in the Sun

Celebrate Black History Month with this MLK Day COLLAB poster activity! Your students will have the opportunity to get creative and reflect as they create a beautiful and collaborative finished piece!This collaborative poster is a wonderful way to start a unit or to cap one off, or to simply complement MLK day studies! It is an engaging and entertaining way for students to work together to create a large poster for their classroom, hallway, Bulletin Board, or classroom door! What's Included?

Subjects:

Black History Month, Martin Luther King Day, Social Studies - History

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas, Cultural Activities

Also included in: HUGE Collaborative Poster BUNDLE | Door Decoration Year long ENTIRE YEAR

ESL Getting to Know You Activities for Back to School - ESL Games - First day

Created by

Inspiring Young Learners --- Beth Vaucher

These "getting to know you" activities were created with ELL Newcomers in mind to lower the affective filter, take off any pressure to have to speak and to allow connections to be made amongst the teacher and peers. 5 different activities are included with a quick direction sheet and the materials needed to complete the activity. The best part is how much you will be able to learn about your newcomer students without them even having to say a word!Let's Connect!Looking for more support?Click her

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, English Language Arts, Other (ELA)

Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Other (Social Studies - History)

Also included in: ESL Newcomers Beginning of the Year Activities - ESL Back to School First Week

Long Ago & Today Sort, Compare & Contrast Artifacts Scaffolded Writing Activity

Created by

What I Have Learned

Long Ago and Now: Compare and Contrast Artifacts & Writing Activities help students understand how to compare and contrast the inventions from long ago and today. This is a series of lessons on compare and contrast, several sorts, and related writing activities.This mini-unit is in my Long Ago & Now Unit. DO NOT purchase this if you have or are purchasing the whole unit.LONG AGO & TODAY COMPARE AND CONTRASTTeacher Notes about Compare and ContrastInteractive Mini-book that compares

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Social Studies BUNDLE - Biography Report, Long Ago, Map Skills, Laws & Nations

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Movie Guide + Activities | Halloween

Created by

Mr Hull's Movie Guides

This 7 page Halloween movie guide + extra activities for grades 1, 2, 3 and 4 accompanies the animation film "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)". ★★ Check out the full preview! ★★This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.This includes the following activities:• 15 comprehension questions to complete during the movie• Word search• Jack-o-lantern design• Writing a letter to the Great Pumpkin• Crossword• Answer sheets for the comprehension questions, word se

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, English Language Arts, Halloween

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Movie Guides, Cultural Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.SL.2

Also included in: 5 Pack Bundle | Halloween Movie Guide Questions + Activities | Lower Grades

Martin Luther King Jr. Activities for Preschool, PreK, & Kindergarten Minilesson

Created by

Teach PreK

Are you looking for age and developmentally-appropriate MLK Activities to help your students learn and love this magical theme? These MLK Activities for Preschool are for you! These Martin Luther King Jr. activities will make learning about MLK fun for the kids and planning easy for you! This done-for-you resource includes 5 MLK activities for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten. There are classroom posters, vocabulary strips, and book and video suggestions included too! These Martin Luther Kin

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Martin Luther King Day, Social Emotional Learning

Grades:

PreK - K

Types:

Cultural Activities, Lesson, Centers

CCSS:

K.CC.B.4

, K.CC.B.4a

, K.CC.B.4b

, RF.K.1d

, RF.K.4

Also included in: Learning & Discovery Preschool & PreK Curriculum Bundle

Black History Month Cereal Box Biography with Rubric

Created by

Jackie Panzica Davis

This Black History Month Project is perfect for February! The students will read about and research a famous African-American. The information will then be used to create a Cereal Box Biography. Included in this item are: - A List of 50 Famous African-Americans - Student instructions/directions - Cereal Box Templates - Grading Rubric - Sample student project photos Enjoy!

Subjects:

Black History Month, Martin Luther King Day, U.S. History

Grades:

1st - 6th

Types:

Projects, Printables, Cultural Activities

Holidays around the World: Christmas Ornaments

Created by

Cross Curricular Literacy Resources

-Students will color ornaments from countries around the world. -Each ornament contains the flag of a country. -Color coding on each flag! -20 countries included -Great for ESL classrooms and Holidays around the World winter unit! -Decorate an international Christmas tree this year in your classroom!

Subjects:

Arts & Music, EFL - ESL - ELD, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

PreK - 8th

Types:

Activities, Bulletin Board Ideas, Cultural Activities

Black History Month MLK Martin Luther King Collaborative Poster Door Decoration

Created by

Teachin' in the Sun

Celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month with this MLK Day COLLAB poster activity! Your students will have the opportunity to get creative and reflect as they create a beautiful and collaborative finished piece!This collaborative poster is a wonderful way to start a unit or to cap one off, or to simply complement MLK day studies! It is an engaging and entertaining way for students to work together to create a large poster for their classroom, hallway, Bu

Subjects:

Black History Month, Martin Luther King Day, Social Studies - History

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas, Cultural Activities

Also included in: HUGE Collaborative Poster BUNDLE | Door Decoration Year long ENTIRE YEAR

Spanish-Speaking Countries (Cultural Facts) Interactive Notebook Activity

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This is a 3 page interactive notebook activity over the 21 countries of the Spanish-speaking world. Students will color, cut, and paste the flags of the 21 Spanish-speaking countries to their notebooks. Next, students will flip up each flag and write one or two cultural facts about each country. Cultural facts may include information about the countries holidays, celebrations, traditions, beliefs, sports, music, and food. Instructions are given on the first page. This activity was designed to b

Subjects:

Printables, Cultural Activities

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Also included in: Spanish Countries and Capitals Vocabulary Bundle

Spain Virtual Field Trip - Hispanic & Latino Heritage Month

Created by

Travelicious Teacher

Take your students on an engaging adventure around Spain with this virtual field trip for primary students! It can be used to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month or provide a cultural, travel experience in the classroom.THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:Google Slides Virtual Field Trip Presentation (21 Slides) + 4 YouTube VideosPLEASE NOTE: You will have your own copy of this virtual field trip on Google Slides. However, the text, pictures, and clipart on the slides are NOT editable to ensure my work is prot

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Hispanic Heritage Month, Social Studies - History

Grades:

K - 5th

Types:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Hispanic Heritage Month, Social Studies - History

Also included in: Countries Around the World Virtual Field Trip Growing Bundle, Cultural Awareness

Mexico Virtual Field Trip - Hispanic & Latino Heritage Month - Day of the Dead

Created by

Travelicious Teacher

Take your students on an engaging adventure around Mexico with this virtual field trip for primary students! It can be used to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Día de los Muertos, Cinco de Mayo or provide a cultural, travel experience in the classroom.THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:Google Slides Virtual Field Trip Presentation (18 Slides) + 5 YouTube VideosPLEASE NOTE: You will have your own copy of this virtual field trip on Google Slides. However, the text, pictures, and clipart on the slides are NO

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 5th

Types:

Classroom Community, EFL - ESL - ELD, Other (World Language)

Also included in: Countries Around the World Virtual Field Trip Growing Bundle, Cultural Awareness

Cultural Morning Meeting Greetings: Hello in Different Languages (Google Slides)

Created by

Travelicious Teacher

This multicultural resource is designed to be used with your students in person or virtually. It includes hello greetings in 24 different languages. It can be used as a greeting during morning meetings throughout the school year!How to Use this Resource:•"Present" the home page on Google Slides. Click the language you would like to practice. You will be redirected to that page. Watch the short video clip and greet each other in that language. Click the arrow to take you back to home page. Drag a

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 5th

Types: