Activity+1+What+is+Culture

=Activity #1 = ==Guiding Question: What is culture? ==

**Objectives: **
 * Students will understand the concept of culture using online resources and classroom books to create a glogster showing the elements of culture.
 * Students will find and research two different media sources to learn about culture.
 * Students, working in groups, will upload the information they have collected to a class wiki with a resource list.

**Procedure: **
 * 1) Students will view videos, read articles and books on culture.
 * 2) Students will develop their own resources and will find two video and two article resources.
 * 3) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Students will keep a journal to identify the different components of culture such as art, music, food, clothing, science and technology, architecture, animals we use, transportation, sculpture, beliefs, ideas, laws, language, behavior, religion, etc. using their own resources.
 * 4) <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Students will list ways, in a Google doc, how geographic location and resources would effect culture.
 * 5) <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Students, working in groups, will create a class Wiki and upload the information they have collected.

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Materials: **
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Computers and an online connection
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Journal notebooks
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Class Wiki from Wikispaces.com

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">**Resources:**


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">What is culture: Discovery Education Video
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Encarta Article on Culture
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Video on Culture
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">A Higher Level Article on Culture
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World - Grade Level Book
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">A Higher Level Article on Culture
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World - Grade Level Book
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World - Grade Level Book
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World - Grade Level Book