Home Remedies

There are many home remedies for the common ailments that get shared and passed on within cultures. This lesson gives students a peek into different home remedies found in Spanish speaking countries.


Level: Intermediate-Mid, Spanish 


Essential Questions: 

What are home remedies in other cultures?

How do other cultures use home remedies? 


ICC Goals: 

Investigate: I can identify home remedies from different cultures. 

Interact: I can create a home remedy for my ailment. 


Lesson:  

  1. Students will share their own family’s home remedies. 

  2. Students will identify and describe symptoms and ailments.

  3. The teacher will lead a class discussion about different home remedies within Spanish speaking countries. 

    1. Vicks VapoRub- used for ear aches and fever. 

      • A small piece of cotton is covered in VaporRub and placed in the ear for earaches. 

      • VapoRub is placed on the soles of your feet and covered with socks to reduce a fever. 

      • Optional- use the VapoRub infographic 

    2. Manzanilla- used as a tea for stomach ache. 

    3. Sabila (Aloe Vera)- used for cold sores, bruises, or to avoid hair loss.

    4. Pan para el susto (bread)- eaten when scared or stressed out. 

    5. ‘sana, sana, colita de rana’- a soothing rhyme told to children.  

  4. Students will compare and contrast home remedies mentioned to their own. 

  5. Students will research different home remedies used for other ailments.

    1. Students will listen to How to Spanish Podcast, Episodio 71: Medicinas Mexicanas and list three ailments and home remedies mentioned in the podcast.  

  6. Using Google Slides, students will create a collage identifying the three ailments and home remedies used to heal the ailments described in the podcast.  

  7. Students will work in partners to share their findings. 

  8. Students will then record themselves creating a new home remedy and share with their peers.


Students will then journal and reflect upon any new learning, connections made, and challenges faced with. 

Comments

  1. KarinFebruary 22, 2021 at 9:57 PM

    Este proyecto me fascina! Como buena argentina el Vick’s VapoRub ocupa un lugar muy importante en mi botiquín. Hasta me ha curado una migraña con solo aplicarlo en la sien. Felicitaciones!!

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    1. Kathy February 25, 2021 at 9:11 PM

      Karin,

      ¡Gracias! ¡Buen consejo, debería intentarlo!

      Kathy

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