Hispanic Heritage Month Resources
Hispanic Heritage Month Resources
Resources from NCSS Journals to help you teach about Hispanic heritage during Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 to October 15.
Social Education
Welcome to Zinctown: Bringing Salt of the Earth (1954) to Your Classroom
The Cold War-era American film Salt of the Earth, which features a Latinx community, centers on a labor strike, interrogates unjust economic systems, and provides an excellent entry point for exploring difficult histories in the classroom.
When Some Students are Undocumented, and Some are Not: Teaching Civics in Mixed-Citizenship Classrooms
Some important concepts and strategies can help social studies educators teach civics in an inclusive manner when not all students in the classroom are formal citizens.
Who is Afro-Latin@? Examining the Social Construction of Race and Négritude in Latin America and the Caribbean
Examining an eighteenth-century casta painting offers a perfect entry point into a lesson on the social construction of race in Latin America.
Beyond La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María: The Invention and Mental Mapping of the New World
Approaching the encounter between Europe and the Americas as an intellectual rather than a physical discovery enables students to go beyond memorization to gain an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance ways of acquiring knowledge.
Charting the Land of Flowers: Exploration and Mapmaking in Spanish Florida
Two key maps that show the known world from the European perspective before Christopher Columbus's voyages illustrate the knowledge of intellectuals of that period and reveal tales of exploration, conflict, and change.
Borderlands of the Southwest: An Exercise in Geographical History
Standard accounts of U.S. history present a chronology of events that begins in the East and moves west. An alternative approach traces Spanish exploration and settlement in what is now the American Southwest..
Operation Pedro Pan: The Flight to Neverland for 14,000 Cuban Children
Learning about the 1960s exodus of Cuban children to the United States can engage K-12 students in the study of immigration and U.S.-Cuba issues. A sidebar by Mario Minichino offers mapping activities, guided imagery, and other teaching suggestions.
500 Years of Spanish Exploration and Settlement: Children's Literature
Literature provides an ideal vehicle for guiding students beyond conventional accounts for a more profound exploration of Spanish influence in the Americas.