


{"id":3288,"date":"2015-10-28T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2023-05-12T07:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T06:31:02","slug":"day-dead-lesson-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/day-dead-lesson-ideas","title":{"rendered":"Day of the Dead Lesson Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The end of October is a spooky time of year the world over! The Mexican festival of &#8220;D\u00eda de Muertos&#8221;, or Day of the Dead, is celebrated annually on 31st October to 2nd November in order to remember lost friends or family and help their souls&#8217; spiritual journeys. Here are a few ideas for a Day of the Dead themed lesson.<\/h4>\n<h5>1. For Art teachers:<\/h5>\n<p>Use resources such as this one\u00a0from Mexic-Arte Museum to try your hand at papier mache skulls, paper masks or cut-out banners to decorate your classroom.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-content\/uploads\/day-of-the-dead.jpg\" alt=\"day of the dead\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/>\n<h5>2. For Spanish or English\u00a0teachers:<\/h5>\n<p>Read some macabre &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mamalisa.com\/blog\/calaveras-skull-poems-the-danse-macabre\/\">Calavera<\/a>&#8216; poems with your students &#8211; either in the original Spanish, or their English translations.\u00a0Students can even try their hand at writing one and illustrating one for the classroom wall.<\/p>\n<h5>3. For Humanities\u00a0teachers:<\/h5>\n<p>Compare and contrast different traditions around the world. How is the Day of the Dead similar or different to Halloween celebrations? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/article\/video-day-of-the-dead-in-oaxaca\">National Geographic<\/a> has some <a href=\"https:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.org\/\">gorgeous resources<\/a> that you could use to bring the lesson to life.<\/p>\n<h5>4. For ESL teachers:<\/h5>\n<p>Try these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esolcourses.com\/topics\/day-of-the-dead.html\">graded activities<\/a>\u00a0to teach about the Day of the Dead. Again, if you have a multicultural class, this could be a nice opportunity for students to talk about their home cultures and traditions in their country.<\/p>\n<h4>There are lots more resources and ideas across the web &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mommymaestra.com\/2010\/10\/dia-de-los-muertos-lesson-plans-and.html\">here<\/a> are just a few. Are you marking Halloween or the Day of the Dead with your students? Let us know how!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of October is a spooky time of year the world over! The Mexican festival of &#8220;D\u00eda de Muertos&#8221;, or Day of the Dead, is celebrated annually on 31st October to 2nd November in order to remember lost friends or family and help their souls&#8217; spiritual journeys. Here are a few ideas for a&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/day-dead-lesson-ideas\" title=\"Read Day of the Dead Lesson Ideas\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":9175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[854],"tags":[972,1021],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-content\/uploads\/drew-hays-q5EGoKHQEe8-unsplash.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Krhd-R2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13040,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/13040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}