Educator Resources

Twenty-four flags of nations representing Texas’ earliest settlement groups are outlined here. We attempt to answer some of the many questions your students may have about the flags of Texas, the flags of the world’s nations and the flags flown in front of the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures.

The Tejano experience includes working to create a more just society through struggles for educational rights, worker’s rights, and political inclusion. While there have been gains, the quest for equal protection of the law and the ability to participate equally as Americans is ongoing. The Tejano experience includes working to create a more just society through struggles for educational rights, worker’s rights, and political inclusion. This series of activities can be broken into several classes or used individually as desired.

In this lesson students will learn about the use of geometric circles and triangles in pre-Columbian art and Mexican folk art, focusing on important motifs within Latin American mythology such as the sun. They will then create a ceramic sun in the same style.

Carmen Lomas Garza’s work, A Plaza in Texas in the 1930’s, offers a glimpse into the past and details a uniquely Texan culture. This resource guide provides students with a visual way to connect with a previous time, and they will use critical thinking skills to analyze and make personal connections with this important work of art.

Carmen Lomas Garza’s work, A Plaza in Texas in the 1930’s, offers a glimpse into the past and details a uniquely Texan culture. This resource guide provides students with a visual way to connect with a previous time, and they will use critical thinking skills to analyze and make personal connections with this important work of art.

The Ranching Experience explores the legacy of ranching from a unique cultural perspective and offers students a glimpse into what life was like for Tejano people working and thriving on Texas ranches.

The Ranching Experience explores the legacy of ranching from a unique cultural perspective and offers students a glimpse into what life was like for Tejano people working and thriving on Texas ranches.

The Tejano Kitchen: An Exploration of Culture through Food resource guide provides students with hands-on learning activities that give them the opportunity to engage with and make personal connections to the past and present, where they will refine critical thinking skills while learning about the uniqueness of Tejano cuisine.

This resource guide gives students the chance to learn about influential Tejano activists. Students will use critical thinking and inference skills to develop a visual timeline for Emma Tenayuca, an important but sometimes overlooked Texan activist.

Twenty-four flags of nations representing Texas’ earliest settlement groups are outlined in this activity.

This unique learning experience allows students to follow a day in the life of Domingo Leal, a ten-year-old boy living in San Antonio during the 18th century.
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This unique learning experience allows your students to explore what classroom life was like for students living in rural Texas during the late nineteenth century using primary sources.

This activity allows students to participate, imagine, compare, contrast and immerse themselves in a nineteenth century frontier fort.

This engaging activity includes images and documents intended to inspire outdoor education and participation, while focusing on the geography of Texas.

This lesson plan introduces fourth grade students to Texas Pioneer Culture using primary sources.

This lesson plan uses primary sources to provide an introduction to Cowboy Culture in Texas.