Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos information for teachers and students
The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com are proud to offer a downloadable education companion to our Dia de los Muertos site. Adults and children alike often get their first exposure to this important celebration through the colorful art, food and folk traditions of the holiday.
Our goal is to educate those seeking information on this celebration through articles, original art and interactive projects. We hope that you use this information as well the pages found on the web site to enrich young minds, as well as your own.
View the full pages below, and click here to download or print the packet.
Packet contents
- Bibliography
- Coloring pages
- Word search game
- Mix and match puzzle
- Papel picado lesson plan, including an easy-to-use template for younger children
- Calavera mask project
- Skeleton puppet project
Media in Education
Beginning in 2017, The Arizona Republic/azcentral.com’s Media in Education program will sponsor a media innovation summer camp for high-school students in conjunction with Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The camp will encourage students to think of new ways of creating and distributing news content while upholding the industry’s highest standards. ASU will begin accepting applications for the innovation camp in January 2017.
MIE funds also support an investigative reporting fellowship for one student a year at ASU’s Cronkite School. The fellowship honors Republic reporter Don Bolles, who was mortally wounded in a car explosion 40 years ago.
Finally, the MIE program offers classroom fundraising opportunities and free digital subscriptions for classrooms.
For more details about these programs, call Stacy Sullivan at 602-444-8749 or go to pages.azcdigital.com/mie.
MIE expenses are underwritten by The Republic/azcentral.com and are supported by subscribers taking part in our Vacation Donation program. When stopping their subscription temporarily for a vacation, these subscribers donate the credit for their stopped newspapers to MIE. For more information about the Vacation Donation Program, call 602-444-1000, or 800-332-6733.
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