Free Activity Kit for Families
The present COVID-19 pandemic has significantly unsettled people’s lives all around the world, turning routines on their heads and leaving people isolated and vulnerable. Many parents now work from home, while others face substantial economic difficulty or increased danger or stress in the workplace. Schools have sent students home, leaving teachers, parents, and students struggling to adjust to distance learning.
This activity kit is a gift for homebound families navigating the complex and developing situation of contagious sickness, social distance, and countless days at home. We at the Heroes of La Florida hope the resources contained within this kit will add some educational fun to your days at home and will strengthen you in maintaining the hope in adversity which the Martyrs of La Florida modeled so well.
Download Hope in Uncertainty: An Activity Kit for Families here! God bless you all.
The Heroes of La Florida Curriculum Project introduces the forgotten heroes of La Florida's past to the aspiring heroes of America's future. Look around for information about virtues-focused social studies education, our resources for Native American Heritage Month, and nonfiction hero stories perfect for social studies and language arts classes.
Educational
Philosophy
Students benefit immensely from the opportunity to apply critical thinking skills to situations with moral weight. Teaching Florida history--–especially the history of Florida's indigenous people--–can focus in a unique way on historical individuals' ways of manifesting virtue. By supplementing Florida historical study with these stories, students acquire a stronger grasp on a richer past and, more importantly, begin to approach their own moral development in an intellectually rigorous way.
"And the killers did not know that the victory of that war belonged to those... whose bodies rotted under the sun.”
— Fr. Tomas de barrios, 1731
Our resources can help your students recognize the significance of their own moral choices and make those choices with greater confidence.
Resources for Native American Heritage Month
Enrich your lesson plans for Native American Heritage Month this coming November!
Countless Native American Floridians between 1565 and 1763 lived so with such honesty and courage that they moved the hearts of the Spanish living among them. Let the true stories of true-hearted people bring to life the plight of Florida's lost tribes.
Don Patricio de Hinachuba, the head chief over all of Apalachee (in Northern Florida) during the late 1700s. During his life, he was famous particularly for corresponding with the King of Spain to complain about Spanish abuses against his people. (Illustration: Emily Austin)
Other resources
Learn more about historical sites, books, biographies, scripts, and images that can bring stir imaginations in your classroom.