by Kerri Betts
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Level: 8-12 |
Content
Area: Spanish |
Duration: 80
minute block or two 40 minute periods
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Students
will not only demonstrate their knowledge of the
Spanish equivalents for everyday food items, but
will also determine reasonable prices for those items
using the currency of Spanish-speaking countries.
The final product will be a grocery store flyer with
all foods labeled in Spanish and all prices converted
to currency of Spanish-speaking countries.
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Other
Required Materials
- Students
will successfully locate and identify the Spanish language
equivalents for common food items found in a grocery store
- Students
will recognize cognates within the context of the food vocabulary
- Students
will categorize those newly-acquired Spanish language food
equivalents into the four primary food groups
- Students
will convert approximate U.S. prices for the food
items into currency of Spanish-speaking countries
Procedures
- Beam SlovoEd,
CurrencyConverter and PiCoMap to each student.
- Instruct
the students to list 4 foods from each of the four food groups
under the appropriate category heading on a piece of scratch paper. (If
necessary, review the four basic food groups and give an example from each)
- Facilitate
a brief “how-to” discussion of PiCoMap if this
is the first time
the students have used it.
- Have each
student create their own PiCoMap of the food group headings
and the sixteen foods they chose (all written in Spanish). It may be
necessary for you to show the students where to find the special foreign
language characters on their handhelds to ensure correct spelling.
- Allow
time for students to find pictures of the sixteen food items
they
chose in grocery store ads.
- Tell the
students to cut out the pictures and place them under the
appropriate food group headings in Spanish. They should also label
the individual items in Spanish. (Instruct them to leave enough room
underneath each item for a price that they will add later)
- Discuss
and demonstrate the uses of CurrencyConverter, giving
students numerous examples of conversion.
- Provide
each student with time to convert U.S. pricing to that of
Spanish-speaking countries for those items they chose and label them
accordingly on the posterboard.
- Instruct
the students to create a name for their grocery store. The
name,
of course, should be in Spanish.
- Encourage
the students to share their creations with the class, preferably
in Spanish!
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