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Curriki: "Beautiful Art" Cultural Diffusion
This lesson is designed to give students a conceptual understanding of cultural diffusion and the notion that ideas change people and people change ideas. It involves a teacher demonstration, student role-play, and an activity that...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Human Geography: Cultural Patterns
AP Human Geography course learning module on cultural patterns explores characteristics and diffusion of culture, including folk, pop and art.
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Introductory Sociology: Culture
This page from the Del Mar College is an excellent outline of the topic; it provides a basic definition of the term, culture, as well as significant topics and a bibliography.
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Wilson Middle School: The Impact of Tradition and Cultural Diffusion
Throughout history, people, products, and ideas have moved from one place to another. Read about which factors caused these movements within the Eastern Hemisphere. Study cards are included to help review the concepts covered.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Diffusion Theory and Instructional Technology
This paper discusses the diffusion of culture through technological change. (1997)
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Shashi Tharoor: Why Nations Should Pursue "Soft" Power
In this video, Shashi Tharoor argues that "soft" power-the influence of a nation's culture on the rest of the world-has played a large role in India's rapid rise to power in the twenty-first century. [17:54] Includes a brief quiz and a...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Things Fall Apart
Students learn what happens when cultures collide from the perspective of the "other." They come to understand the effects of globalization, cultural diffusion, and the struggle between tradition and change. Students also learn to...
Ohio Test Prep
Ohio Test Prep: Module 5: Human Geography
Learning module prepares students for the Ohio state Social Studies test on Human Geography. Through tutorial videos, interactive games for review and assessment, students learn about human interaction with their environment, migration,...
Stanford University
Stanford Center for Latin American Studies: Expressions of Honduras
The Stanford Center for Latin American Studies provides information, multimedia resources, and activities relating to the art and history of the Garinagu, or Garifuna, people of Honduras.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: The Columbian Exchange
[Free Registration/Login Required] The story of the Columbian exchange is a story of two worlds colliding. The Europeans brought horses and wheat, they also brought germs. Here's a synopsis of the effects of that fateful encounter.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Columbian Exchange
A page on the elements of the Exchange that made the most significant impact. Clicking on the item brings up a page of explanation.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 6 Social Studies: Spread of World Religions
This instructional task asks students to explain the impact that religion had on cultural diffusion in the Eastern Hemisphere. It contains a set of authentic source documents. Students engage with the sources to build their understanding...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Columbian Exchange
Lesson on the Columbian Exchange and the unintended consequences that resulted. Lesson includes teacher's notes, primary or secondary sources, background, strategies for analysis and Close reading, follow-up assignment and vocabulary.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The New Americans (Lessons on the Immigrant Experience)
Find eleven lesson plans developed in conjunction with the PBS documentary "The New Americans," which explores what it means to be a new Americans in the twenty-first century. Lessons touch on topics associated with recently arrived...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Moundville Site
Moundville was first settled in the 10th century and represents a major period of Mississippian culture in the Southern United States. It acted as the center for a southerly diffusion of this culture toward the Gulf Coast. It was the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Focus on Baghdad: The Golden Age of Islam
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of Baghdad during the Golden Age of Islam.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Golden Age of Islam
This resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school or college level world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge about the Golden Age of Islam.
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