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La Comida

Cocina-This site is a great resource for hispanic foods, including recipes from various countries.

cocina mexicana-A great link for recipes and local foods categorized by distinct areas of Mexico.

cocina española-Another useful site for the Spanish cuisine enthusiasts, including recipes and interesting information on saffron, meals, etc.

Softguide Madrid-Eating Out-Have you ever wondered what the fast food is like in Madrid? Do they have a Kentucky Fried Chicken there? Find out here.

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El Arte

museo virtual-A great resource. Highly recommended to see 3-D artwork.

otro museo virtual-Another great resource to see artwork in a 3-D style.

Museo del Prado- Offers among its resources information about the museum itself, a quick tour of 49 of its best known works of art.

Diego Rivera Virtual Museum-Available in both Spanish and English versions, this elegant and rich Website highlights the beauty and passion of noted Mexican muralist and activist Diego Rivera. You can learn about his life, view many artworks, tour a Live3D gallery, and explore his writing.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza de Madrid-Official Page of the best private collection of  works of art in the world, including styles from Gothic to Contemporary.

 Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía-Official page of this famous museum of contemporary art in Madrid.  It includes Guernica by Picasso.

Art Institute of Chicago-Take your students on a field trip!

 

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Electronic Communication 

E-mail friends/Pen-pals-Make friends in Spanish-speaking countries, practice and improve your written Spanish, and help your penpals to improve their English.

www.bluemountain.comA well know site to make greeting cards to E-mail in many different languages. Fun for the holidays.


Al's Foreign Language Digital Postcard Center- This site has creative photos to attach messages to and send out.


Welcome to / Bienvenido a ePALS Classroom Exchange The World's Largest K-12 Online Classroom and electronic penpal network - Connecting 1.5 million students and teachers in 21,713 registered classrooms from 115 countries. Bartlett High School is already registered via Ms. Schiada.

Mylanguageexchange.com-Another penpal and chatroom site to try out.


Welcome to ePALS Private Chat -Where you can set up and control personal classroom chatrooms and the possibilities are endless...

1000 ICQ Hablan Español-A service for setting up e-mail pals and/or chat rooms in Spanish.

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 Links for Spanish Instruction

http://www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish3.html-resources on all aspects of the Spanish language and culture.

Spanish Search Engines

¡Olé!-Spanish search engine

Que pasa.com-Easy to use as a search engine or just for current events, e-mail, weather, etc.

Foreign Language Resources for Teachers and Students-Projects, links, and online homework help for Spanish, French and German.

Foreign Language Resources on the Web-Seeks to include only the best of the foreign language ("foreign" for native speakers of English) Web sites out of the many that exist.

Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction-A series of hand-drawn pictures illustrating verbs, adjectives, and common nouns that teachers can print out and use in the classroom.

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Spain

Traveling To Spain

España

, Spain

Madrid Virtual

Lugares Prinicipales:

These links may be useful in searching for places of interest in Spain.

Madrid

Toledo

Sevilla

Andalucia

Granada

Tarragona

Segovia

Barcelona

Malaga

Cadiz

el Escorial

el Valle de los Caídos

Cantabrica-This site has information about this region in Spain.

TOROS-An informative site written in Spanish about bullfighting.

Madridman.com-What a cool site!

Spain in CYBERSPAIN:A nice place to visit regarding Spain.

Piropos de Amor-I don’t know if this site still worksL.

Madrid - City guide a guide for Madrid’s activities and special interest sites.

Madrid: Ocio: Películas V.O. (subtituladas)-This site has current movie listings in Madrid, including translations of the titles.

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Other Cultural Sites

Las Lineas de Nasca-This is an awesome site for exploring the lines of Nasca, Peru.

Excite Travel : Mexico

La Civilización Maya

Menu-Maya Civilization

Mexico

Animal Sounds - Explore the sounds of the world's languages through the sounds of the world's animals.

Quepasa.com

Welcome to the Cafe-Welcome to the Teachers' Pages of the Modern foreign languages section of the Schools On-Line project.

Taller hispano

Cultura de los Andes. Music, photos, poems and stories from the Andes mountain region of South America (in Spanish and the Quechua indian language).

Country Studies-Area Handbook Series (by the Library of Congress / Federal Research Division) including information and various links to help in researching a particular country.

Latin World-the premier search engine for Iberoamerica and the Caribbean

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Sample Lesson Plans and Grammar Activities

Foreign Language Lesson Plans

Weekly Spanish Lesson by Tyler Jones

Spanish Lesson - en la escuela-vocabulary list related to school and classroom stuff.

gramática (en todos los idiomas)-some fun activities to practice grammar.

Grammar Drills-another useful college grammar drills site by BK Nelson.

Family members review-Charles City has developed this quick review for family member vocab and misc. household items vocab. It includes a family tree and various activities.

Family Tree-Excellent review activities to show relationships between family members and interpret a family tree.

Reflexive Verb Drills-This site has two activities that practice reflexive verbs, both in the present and preterite tenses.

Señorita Schiada's quia.com homepage-This site has games to review information on Spain.

Miguel de Cervantes Web Page-This site has all of the works written by Cervantes and many other interesting activities and resources.

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Professional Organizations

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages(ACTFL)
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

 

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German Sites

Job find-This site is in German and relates to finding jobs.

German links

Berlin On-line

German Links-Grammar, music, movies, culture, activities, you name it!

German Studies Trails on the Internet. Compiled by Andreas Lixl-Purcell, Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Listed are some useful interdisciplinary German resources on the Web. Select from a variety of topics such as German Language & Culture (Sprache und Landeskunde), Arts & Humanities (Kunst und Wissenschaft) or Education & Research (Unterricht und Forschung).

Foreign Language Resources for Teachers and Students. Projects, links, and online homework help for Spanish, French and German.

Foreign Language Resources on the Web. Seeks to include only the best of the foreign language ("foreign" for native speakers of English) Web sites out of the many that exist.

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French Sites

Foreign Language Resources for Teachers and Students. Projects, links, and online homework help for Spanish, French and German.

Foreign Language Resources on the Web. Seeks to include only the best of the foreign language ("foreign" for native speakers of English) Web sites out of the many that exist.

Planning a Day in Paris. Amanda Lafleur and Sandy Labry have prepared this online lesson plan for French classes using the internet. The plan is appropriate for French II in grades 9-12.

French Sites  A great site that was recently recommended to me!

http://www.paris.org/

Eiffel Tower-A great link for such a great place.

top50online-Music, music, music. This is a colorful, fun site for music lovers in French.

Animal Sounds - Explore the sounds of the world's languages through the sounds of the world's animals.

French Culture-A great link for cultural resources in French.

Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links-Provides useful resources for teachers and students of French including Art and Special Image Exhibits, Literature and Music, Newspapers, Magazines and Newsgroups, and Audio-visual (Radio/TV,etc.).

Canada

Currency Converter

France

http://www.lemonde.fr/

http://www.parismatch.com/

Disney Land in Paris

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Miscellaneous Bookmarks for Teachers

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Foreign Languages

Internet Resources for Language Teachers and Learners

 eSchoolNews.com

Teachnet.com

Teaching with the Web. Prepared by Lauren Rosen, the site is a compilation of ideas for using WWW resources as a teaching tool as well as other links to sites that have pedagogical information.

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Creating Webpages

Royalty free animation - Purchase user license.

www.schoolnotes.com

Highwired.com

Wikispaces -use this free site to make your first webpage for your classes!

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 Games and Quizzes

Quia.com-to make quizzes, tests, review games

www.funbrain.com-also to make quizzes, tests and review games.

hangman-Spanish hangman game

Spanish Verb Conjugator. Enter a verb and view all of its conjugations.

Lotería Mexican Bingo Game Lotería is like Bingo, but has colorful pictures with Spanish names instead of numbers and letters. You can play the game at this site.

Animal Sounds- Explore the sounds of the world's languages through the sounds of the world's animals.

Spanish Vocabulary Builder-pictures and links to the pronunciation of the words, including categories such as foods, transportation, sports, animals, etc.

The Simpsons-Listen to Bart speak Spanish.

The Wonderful Canine World- a fun site to explore in Spanish about man's best friend.

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Holidays

Santa's Workshop

Christmas Carols (Multilingual)

Cinco de Mayo

Day of the Dead

All Hispanic Holidays

Links to Hispanic Holiday Activities

Under Construction: This was a website created by srta. Schiada  as part of an Action-Based Research  Project (Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom). Many sites are old links- Sorry!

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Created by Gina Schiada February, 2000
Last updated January, 2006

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