Cultural+Characteristics

Students will be able to: * Identify and compare the cultural characteristics of different regions and people (e.g., in terms of their use of environment and resources, technology, food, shelter, beliefs and customs, schooling, etc.).

* Explain and correctly use the elements of maps and globes.

* Use appropriate resources and geographic tools to generate and interpret information about the earth.


 * Essential Questions:**
 * How should responsible world citizens deal with cultural differences?
 * What is the best way for social scientists to find out the information they want to know?
 * What can we learn from maps & globes?


 * Enduring Understandings:**
 * A respectful world citizen recognizes and appreciates the differences and similarities in world cultures.
 * People are similar and unique.
 * Groups of people develop cultural characteristics.
 * Reading maps and globes can help us better understand the regions of the world.
 * Geographic location affects cultural characteristics.
 * We discover information through searching for answers to questions and looking in a variety of sources.

== What is culture?

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