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Mexico
This section contains activities and resources related to Mexico.
Explorers Profiles
Description: This extensive section includes biographies on 21 of the world's most important explorers including Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Jacques Cartier, John Cabot, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Coronado, Samuel de Champlain, and many more!
Mexico Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Mexico Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Mexico Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Mexico Interactive Scavenger Hunt
Description: This activity includes an embedded interactive map of Mexico into an online quiz. Students imply click on the points of the map to find the answers. This scavenger hunt gives immediate feedback.
Mexico Label-me Map Quiz -Online
Description: This resource requires students to label a numbered map of Mexico. Immediate feedback is given.
Mexico Map Skills - Online
Description: This online activity requires students to practice their map skills by investigating the map of Mexico. This activity provides immediate feedback.
War Pretzels (In Spanish) - Online Game
Description: Are you up to this addition and subtraction challenge? Welcome to the first annual all-pretzel arm wrestling tournament. Although you can’t hope to match the pure strength of the world’s best arm wrestling pretzels, you have one advantage – the strength of your pretzel-flexible arms is governed by your quick skills in addition and subtraction. Subdue your worthy opponents with your error-free calculations. Be careful though – errors you can afford to make in the first few rounds will lead to your demise in the last few rounds. Be quick —- and accurate. The calculations get harder as you move on, but you’ll have to make less of them in the later rounds.
Tony Fraction's Pizza Shop in Spanish - Online Game
Description: This is Tony Fraction's Pizza Shop in Spanish!
English/Spanish Word Match - Online
Description: This activity requires students to match English words with their Spanish counterparts. It gives immediate feedback.
English/Spanish Number Match - Online
Description: This activity requires students to match English numbers with their Spanish counterparts. It gives immediate feedback.
Mexico Interactive Map
Description: This is an interactive map of Mexico. Students simply click on the points of the map to learn all about Mexico.
Maptivation - Online Map Making
Description: This is an awesome resource that allows kids to label and color maps online. States, regions, nations, and more are available. It can be a bit "glitchy" at time as the kids say, but by and large it is perfect for online coloring, printing, and labeling maps. Fill tool problem is now FIXED.
Incredible Word Scramble - Spanish Version (Palabras a Montones)
Description: This super fun game requires students to unscramble as many words as possible in three seconds. They can choose from nouns, animals, and geography, in easy or hard modes. Addictive!
Death to Decimals - Online Game - Spanish Version
Description: This fun game requires students to role play as Fraction Man - a super hero who must save the world from horrible, parachuting decimal aliens by converting them to harmless fractions.
Cash Out - Online Game - Spanish Version (Dame mi Cambio)
Description: One of the most popular games on mrnussbaum.com, Cash Out is perfect for practicing counting money or calculating change. Students have three minutes (or can play without a timer) to complete as many sales as possible by giving customers the correct change. The game is totally customizable and with different skill levels and hints/no hints.
Mexico City, Mexico - World Cities Series
Description: This page contains a history and description of Mexico City. It is part of our world cities series.
Chichen Itza - World Landmarks Series
Description: This page includes information and images or a video on Chichen Itza. It is part of our World Landmarks Series.
Rainforest - Landforms of the World
Description: This page features information on rainforests. It features the Amazon Rainforest and is part of our World Landforms series!
Rainforests Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Rainforests Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Burnside's Billions
Description: This innovative game requires students to "purchase" as many of the world's most important landmarks as possible with ten billion dollars. Students must purchase by using the game's tools to convert dollars to the native currency. For example, to buy the Eiffel tower, players must convert dollars to euros. The game provides real-time currency exchange rates and has numerous twists and turns. Games can be saved! For more detailed video instructions, check out the Burnside Billion's instructional video.
North America Map Identification
Description: How well can you identify the nations of North America on a map? This activity gives immediate feedback
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: The Calendars
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: The Calendars - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: The Pyramids - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: The Pyramids
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: Religion
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: Religion - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Mayan Civilization Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Defeat the Mayan Math Monster - Online Math Game
Description: This is a fun game where students use their addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division skills to foil the horrid Mayan Math Monster for the opportunity to explore a room filled with gold and riches. Classified under: math games, addition games, subtraction games, multiplication games, division games
Defeat the Mayan Math Monster - Online Math Game - In Spanish
Description: This is a fun game where students use their addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division skills to foil the horrid Mayan Math Monster for the opportunity to explore a room filled with gold and riches
North American Flag Quiz
Description: Find out how if you can identify the flags of North American nations. This activity gives immediate feedback
North America Interactive Map
Description: Students can click on the nations of North America and learn about the population, area, rankings, and more of each!
North American Capitals - Online
Description: How well can you identify the capitals of North American countries? This activity gives immediate feedback.
Interactive World Map and World Map Games
Description: This is an incredible map of the world that allows students to explore an interactive map of the world, or, play games testing their knowledge of the nations or waterways of the world. Works on all devices!
Collage World - Online
Description: This awesome resource allows students to make online collages featuring a continent of choice and its nations. Great world geography practice and collages print beautifully! Classified Under: Geography game, USA geography, USA geography game, Geography games, USA geography games, USA game, USA games, World geography, World Geography game, World Geography games,
Conquer the Continents - Online Game
Description: How many nations can you identify from the chosen continent in 60 seconds?
World Detective - Online Game
Description: In World Detective, students select a continent and the "game" selects a secret country within the chosen continent. The player has six questions to try to guess the selected state. Users must generate "good" questions that allow them to eliminate as many incorrect states as they can per question. Students can ask questions regarding color or relative location. States that are eliminated are grayed out. For example, a good first question might be "is the country east of Germany?" If the answer were to be yes, all of the countries west of Germany would then be greyed out.
Temperature Map - Online Game
Description: How well can you add and subtract both positive and negative numbers? Temperature Map requires students to add and subtract both positive and negative numbers in specially-designed word problems to determine the temperatures of ten cities around the world. This game serves as an enjoyable way for students to practice adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers, improve number sense, and to learn a little bit about world geography and climate, and each city’s temperature in the game is within the range of its actual normal temperatures in summer or winter.
Map Scale - Online Game
Description: This fun online game reinforces the concept of map scale by challenging students to determine the distances between major world cities.

