Austin College students who are studying Texas history wrote a series of seventh grade lesson plans that highlight Mexican-Americans in Texas history.  These lesson plans are keyed to the specific criteria of the Texas essential knowledge and skills guidelines, and thus will enable teachers to implement them in their seventh-grade history classes seamlessly in accordance with the state TEKS criteria.  Moreover, because of their hypertext nature, these lesson plans also provide links to additional reading and other relevant web sites, while providing bibliographic references. 

This project was underwritten by a generous grant from Humanities Texas, with additonal support from the Andrew Pickett Mobley Scholar Fund. The four Austin College who participated in this project during January Term 2007 were Katie Daitoku of Willits, California; Jacqueline Armstrong of Austin, Texas; Maria Vargas of Carrollton, Texas; and Jacqueline Welsh of Greeley, Colorado.

Five distinguised educators served as members of the advisory panel for this project. They were: Adan Benavides of the Benson Latin American Library, University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Carolina Castillo-Crimm of San Houston State Univesity; Dr. Patrick Cox of the Center for American History at the University of Texas; Dr J. F. de la Teja of Texas State University--San Marcos; and Dr. Teresa Lozano Long of Austin, Texas.

The following individuals were the subjects of the first round of lesson plans: