If you’re looking for some holiday music (school permitting) to get you through the week, enjoy an ESRI Storymap with 56 samples. They are around 40 seconds a piece. The […]
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Tag: culture
LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Expansion Diffusion with McDonald’s
If you are teaching students about cultural diffusion within the Cultural Patterns & Processes unit, your students will enjoy this! Students will read about the three different types of expansion […]
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LESSON PLAN: Recognizing Language Patterns: An Etymology Word Exploration
Where do our Words Come From?!?! Europe provides students with a wonderful opportunity to recognize the various patterns and groupings of its major language branches and families. In this activity, […]
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Lessons & Worksheets: *Free* Ethnicities & Building Blocks of Culture
If you’re jumping into Culture, why not have your students start with its building blocks. With this worksheet, have students read about what makes a culture, including artifacts, mentifacts, values, […]
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INTERACTIVE via ESRI: Language & Religion Geoinquiry
Note: The ESRI Geoinqueries that ESRI produce are amazing, the problem is that you can’t edit their PDFs to remove the pre-written answers for students. Here is a formatted version […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Relocation Diffusion-The Jumping Kind
In this edition: find out what Sikh Dastaars and La Catedral de San Juan Bautista have in common, and why every American needs to know a little Puerto Rican history. […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Expansion Diffusion-the Stimulus Kind
In this Episode: See how culture is adapted to meet the needs of new groups, why McDonald’s menus are different around the world, and why it might be hard to […]
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Illustrated Text: Cultural Diffusion-An Introduction
Find out what happens when humans are stripped naked of technology, cultures collide, and when aliens have their input. This page covers CULTURAL DIFFUSION, CULTURAL CONVERGENCE (TRANSCULTURATION), SPONTANEOUS (INDEPENDENT INVENTION), […]
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Illustrated Textbook: The Building Blocks of Culture-2
The second page of this layout covers CUSTOMS, RITUALS, VALUES, and TABOOs. In this edition, we find out our sports fan doesn’t change his socks, that rituals tend to have […]
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Illustrated Textbook: The Building Blocks of the Cultural Landscape
In page one of this double-layout, we use sports fans and hooligans as our inspiration to teach the different building blocks of culture that help shape the cultural landscape. We […]
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NEWS via theguardian: Moana: progressive paean to Polynesia – or another of Disney’s cultural blunders?
Moana: The Progressive Paean to Polynesia or another of Disney’s Cultural Blunders? This is an article that discusses whether Moana, the Disney movie, is an example of cultural appropriation or […]
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RESOURCE: AP HuGe Recommended Texts
The following list is taken from the AP Human Geography Teacher’s Guide. The list looks a little dated, nevertheless, the authors have updated versions of their texts. ———————– Textbooks de […]
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NEWS: The Country Training People to Leave
A great article to discuss when teaching BRAINDRAIN. The country training people to leave By Stephen SackurBBC, Philippines The Philippines has one of the fastest growing economies in Asia – […]
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AUDIO via NPR: In ‘1493’ Columbus Shaped a World To Be
This 37 minute story is great for kids in a 1:1 environment, or for a different homework assignment. The author Charles C. Mann discusses Christopher Columbus docking in the ‘New World’ […]
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VIDEO via FreeBase: Charting Culture by Mapping Migration
Video: Thousands of Years of Human Migration in Five Minutes By Lisa Raffensperger | July 31, 2014 2:00 pm It’s enough to put an old-fashioned family tree to shame. A visualization […]
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NEWS via NBCNews: With Migration, Indigenous Languages Going Extinct
With Migration, Indigenous Languages Going Extinct BY CARMEN SESÍN HOMESTEAD, FL – Her name is Spanish in origin, but for Juana Sales, a migrant farm-worker from the Guatemalan high lands, it […]
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NEWS via CNN: Plugging China’s talent pool
Plugging China’s talent pool By Zarina Banu for CNN March 20, 2014 — Updated 0603 GMT (1403 HKT) Many are leaving China for reasons like education, food and wealth security and air […]
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NEWS via Christian Science Monitor: Why African-Americans are moving back to the South
After decades of moving north, thousands of blacks are returning to their Southern roots for economic and cultural reasons. By Carmen K. Sisson, Correspondent / March 16, 2014 Artist Kia Darceo left Milwaukee […]
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NEWS via Guardian Liberty Voice: China Population Structure Change Demands Economic Reform
China Population Structure Change Demands Economic Reform Added by Tina Zhang on March 15, 2014. On March 13, China’s annual parliament meeting closed. Reforms in financialsector, economic structure, environmental protection, and many other […]
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NEWS via Saratogian: China worries it’s losing the Pop-Culture Arms Race
China worries it’s losing the pop-culture arms race By Gu Jinglu and William Wan, The Washington Post POSTED: 03/07/14, 6:14 PM EST | BEIJING — There is no shortage of […]
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INFOGRAPHIC via Drew Skau: Vaguely Rude Place Names of the World
Click on the info graph above to interact with place names. Totally inappropriate, totally hilarious. Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually. […]
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NEWS via Times-Picayune: Shotgun geography: the history behind the famous New Orleans elongated house
Shotgun geography: the history behind the famous New Orleans elongated house Few elements of the New Orleans cityscape speak to the intersection of architecture, sociology and geography so well as […]
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NEWS via PRI: A Haitian artist fights to preserve the vodou religion
Listen to the full story here A Haitian artist fights to preserve the vodou religion Credit: Swoan Parker/Reuters A vodou worshipper takes part in festivities on the first day of the […]
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RESOURCE: Conlangs: What in the…
The CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGES (aka CONLANGS) that are used in Game of Thrones’ Dothraki, Avatar’s Na’vi, Star Trek’s Klingon and LOTR’s Elvish are all fictitiously constructed languages used for the purpose […]
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INTERACTIVE: Pinpoint your Location via Dialect Map
The New York Times posted a 25 question survey that asks the participant questions about their DIALECT-the vocabulary/LEXICON that they use to speak various terms and phrases. With the information, the […]
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