Online Learning Activities
Mexico: A Global Trek Activity
Through various reading activities, students get to “tour” Mexico and learn about its history, culture, and its people.
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8
Scholastic’s Global Trek series takes students on a virtual trip around the world, where they can learn about foreign countries through various online activities.
As part of the series, Global Trek Destination: Mexico (grades 4-8) lets students visit our country’s neighbor to the south.
- Students learn about Mexico, including highlights of its history from 25,000 B.C. until today.
- Students also learn about the Aztecs, the American Indian people of central Mexico who were eventually defeated by the Spanish.
- Students discover Mexican Wildcats through Earthwatch Institute’s field sites.
- The very serious subject of Child Labor in the tobacco fields of Mexico is addressed.
- Students can browse an interactive map of Hispanic History in the Americas that traces back 500 years of Spanish influences.
- Students can read about the People in Mexico — specifically, those of Ciudad Juarez, which is near the U.S. border and influenced by both American and Mexican cultures.
- Students can read Scholastic’s interview with students from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in our Kid Q&A.
- Students can record what they’ve learned in a Travel Journal.
Learning Objectives
While “touring” Mexico, students will:
- Investigate people, places, and environments.
- Use technological resources to gather information about the country and culture that they visit.
- Study global connections and interdependence by reading online text in order to meet the people of the country they visit.
- Use written and visual language to communicate their experiences, thoughts, feelings, collect pictures and write captions about the memorable moments of their travels.
Related Resources
Students can travel the world from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe without leaving the classroom, learning about the country of their choice and “meeting” the locals.
- Subjects:Mexico
