CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS AND TRADITIONS

El Día de los Muertos
For teachers interested in sharing this widely-celebrated holiday with their students, CLAS has produced an informative booklet available in English and Spanish, as well as lesson plans, presentations, and related resources.
Center for Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University

Día de los Muertos Across the Americas *
This comprehensive curricular resource is a collection of activities designed to be used in the Social Studies classroom. It incorporates a basic introduction to Day of the Dead in Latin America and provides insight into the tradition as it is observed in Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti, and Peru.
Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University

Día de los Muertos Through Art and Literacy *
This 100+ page guide introduces the historical and cultural context of Día de los Muertos and provides extensive, hands-on art and literacy exercises to bring this tradition to your classroom with sensitivity and awareness. Includes an expansive bibliography list of related materials.
Latin American & Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico

La tierra magica: Una exploracion cultural de la America
A resource guide on Latin American culture, designed to be used in classes of Spanish for U.S. students at the advanced high school or intermediate to advanced college level.
Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University

Celebrating Global Diversity: Exploring World Festivals in Elementary and Middle School
This cross-cultural, comparative unit is based on a growing need to foster global awareness and strengthen multicultural literacy in young learners. Engaging global content will enable young learners to generalize from the study of world festivals and celebrations and apply that learning in others aspects of learning and their lives. Further, the global and multicultural content in the unit reinforces the social and emotional learning of students and validates the experience of all students in culturally diverse classrooms. Through an exploration of world festivals and cultural celebrations, this unit provides classroom-ready comparative lessons, group activities, and educational content appropriate for students in
LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies & Collections, The University of Texas