This Hispanic Heritage Month activity for middle school and high school features digital stations built around real music, film, literature, and interviews.
Students explore how Latine culture shows up in the pop culture they already know — Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, movies like Coco and Spiderverse, and authors and everyday people speaking in their own words — then reflect on the essential question: "What can we learn when we listen to people tell their own stories?"
Available as an editable Google Slides activity and a printable PDF response sheet, this no-prep stations activity works for ELA, History, Advisory, or any class covering identity, culture, and storytelling. Every video, article, and interview is already linked in the slides — students click through, explore, and respond.
THE 4 STATIONS:
Station 1 — Music
Students choose their own path: watch Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show and identify the culture on display, or analyze his song "LA MuDANZA" and what Bad Bunny expresses about being Puerto Rican.
Station 2 — Movies
Students explore how Coco, Encanto, or Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse celebrate and represent Latine culture on screen.
Station 3 — Books
Students hear directly from the authors of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Solito, and With the Fire on High, in their own words, about why they wrote their stories.
Station 4 — Interviews
Students watch real people (from a Hulu short film and Boston University students) share what Hispanic Heritage Month and their culture mean to them.
WHO IS THIS ACTIVITY FOR?
This stations activity is built for middle school and high school students in any class where culture, identity, and storytelling belong in the conversation.
Works for: ELA, History, Advisory, Homeroom, or any class covering current events, media literacy, or cultural studies.
STUDENT SKILLS:
✅ Students analyze primary sources including music, film, interviews, and author testimony
✅ Students practice media literacy by examining how stories are told across different formats
✅ Students reflect and respond in writing, connecting each station back to the essential question
✅ Students compare perspectives and notice patterns in how culture and identity are represented
✅ Students build empathy by engaging directly with people's own accounts of their own experiences
MAKE IT YOUR OWN:
Make a copy in Google Slides and edit anything — change the essential question, swap in your own videos or articles, edit the response prompts, or run it digitally (1:1) or on paper with the included printable.
Google Slides can be used on both PC and Mac but requires a Google account and internet access. Need one? Create a free account here: https://accounts.google.com/signup/v2/webcreateaccount?flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=SignUp
This product is for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
This Hispanic Heritage Month activity for middle school and high school features digital stations built around real music, film, literature, and interviews.
Students explore how Latine culture shows up in the pop culture they already know — Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, movies like Coco and Spiderverse, and authors and everyday people speaking in their own words — then reflect on the essential question: "What can we learn when we listen to people tell their own stories?"
Available as an editable Google Slides activity and a printable PDF response sheet, this no-prep stations activity works for ELA, History, Advisory, or any class covering identity, culture, and storytelling. Every video, article, and interview is already linked in the slides — students click through, explore, and respond.
THE 4 STATIONS:
Station 1 — Music
Students choose their own path: watch Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show and identify the culture on display, or analyze his song "LA MuDANZA" and what Bad Bunny expresses about being Puerto Rican.
Station 2 — Movies
Students explore how Coco, Encanto, or Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse celebrate and represent Latine culture on screen.
Station 3 — Books
Students hear directly from the authors of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Solito, and With the Fire on High, in their own words, about why they wrote their stories.
Station 4 — Interviews
Students watch real people (from a Hulu short film and Boston University students) share what Hispanic Heritage Month and their culture mean to them.
WHO IS THIS ACTIVITY FOR?
This stations activity is built for middle school and high school students in any class where culture, identity, and storytelling belong in the conversation.
Works for: ELA, History, Advisory, Homeroom, or any class covering current events, media literacy, or cultural studies.
STUDENT SKILLS:
✅ Students analyze primary sources including music, film, interviews, and author testimony
✅ Students practice media literacy by examining how stories are told across different formats
✅ Students reflect and respond in writing, connecting each station back to the essential question
✅ Students compare perspectives and notice patterns in how culture and identity are represented
✅ Students build empathy by engaging directly with people's own accounts of their own experiences
MAKE IT YOUR OWN:
Make a copy in Google Slides and edit anything — change the essential question, swap in your own videos or articles, edit the response prompts, or run it digitally (1:1) or on paper with the included printable.
Google Slides can be used on both PC and Mac but requires a Google account and internet access. Need one? Create a free account here: https://accounts.google.com/signup/v2/webcreateaccount?flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=SignUp
This product is for PERSONAL USE ONLY.