BORICUA KIDS
Learn about Puerto Rico in a fun way -- its food, songs, holidays, and El yunque -- the only tropical rainforest in North America. There are pages to color, fact sheets, maps, excellent photos of this beautiful island, el coquí, a tiny frog only found there, and sound files.
"ZOOM SCHOOL" ABOUT MÉXICO
Learn about native animals and dinosaurs, explorers, and the Aztecs. Take a quiz about the map of México. Learn the numbers from one to twelve.
AMAZON INTERACTIVE
Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Learn about the rain forest and the Quichua people who call it home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río Napo. This site for fourth and fifth graders is based on field research into indigenous ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It is designed to illustrate some basic physical and human geography of the Amazon as well as the risks and benefits of ecotourism as a development strategy.
HISPANIC HERITAGE FROM COAST TO COAST
Find out the Spanish origins of place names throughout the United States.
TRADITIONAL SONGS, RHYMES, FINGERPLAYS, AND GAMES
Listen to and learn these childhood musical traditions with lyrics in Spanish and English
and fine sound files.
STORIES OF CHILDHOOD IN THE ANDES
Read two stories of adventures a child experienced in Perú in the mountains of South America.
SUNI PAZ
An Argentine teacher, singer, composer of children's music in English and in Spanish with a clear voice, a delightful sound, and rich content.
JOSÉ-LUIS OROZCO
This artist is an outstanding source of traditional Mexican songs. His songs are muy pegajosas (very catchy) and so easy to learn. He has a very clear singing voice and is the mainstay music source in my Spanish classes. There are songbooks with lyrics and music available to accompany each CD or tape. See Music for all his wonderful titles.
LULU DELACRE
Sign up for this Latino bilingual author's e-mail newsletter. This site contains her autobiography, and short descriptions of her many, many books for children. Some even have related activities.
COLIBRÍ
Enjoy this female duo musical group from California who perform in Spanish for children. Their excellent recordings consist of mostly culturally authentic music. Lyrics are enclosed for each song. The group has clear, vibrant voices with occasional accompaniment by a fine Argentine singer/guitarist.
LATIN AMERICA
Learn about Latin America by exploring these themes -- Awesome Animals, Living Off the Land, Discovering the Past, Tales in Cloth, Converging Cultures, Time to Celebrate, and Ancient Rituals and Beliefs. This extensive site is brought to you by the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Public Library.
MAYAN KIDS
A excellent site with stunning use of color and artwork to learn about the fascinating Maya people who originated in Yucatán in México. They developed astronomy, calendar systems and writing. They built elaborate pyramids and observatories, all without metal tools. They were and are highly skilled as potters and weavers. Sections include People. Places, Beliefs, Glossary, Word/Match/Color Games, and Clipart.
