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Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month

September 15 - October 15, 2024

Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month September 15 - October 15, 2024
Hispanic/LatinxHeritage MonthSeptember 15 - October 15, 2024
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Let's Get Celebrating! 🪅

National Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15th. This template offers you a wide variety of resources for a month of celebrating and honoring the history, culture, and contributions of Americans whose families hail from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.


🥁 The 2024 theme is: Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together, encapsulating the “spirit of innovation, resilience, and unity that define the Hispanic experience.”

Comprehensive Resources

Librarians have the best resources.
From websites to periodicals, and even a scavenmger hunt!, this site has great resources for teaching Hispanic Heritage Month, including a worksheet exercise for students to search the database for info about important Hispanic Americans.

Classroom Activities

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Ellen Ochoa

Learn all about this remarkable astronaut here, and about other notable Hispanic American scientists here.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda

Here's a kid-appropriate bio of this musical theater ⭐️, plus a video of his 8th grade English teacher.
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Sonia Sotomayor

A great video intro to this Supreme Court Justice. For more Hispanic women taking charge today, check out this list.
Literature-based discussion activity.
From Learning for Justice, this activity involves reading a text appropriate for upper MS & HS, and responding to discussion questions.
Hispanic Heritage Month & Science
Hispanic students are vastly underrepresented in STEM AP courses and college majors. Shift the equation by exposing students to contributions of Hispanic cultures and Hispanic Americans to the fields of mathematics and science.
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