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CultureGrams & World Conflicts Today Updates
Did you know that CultureGrams subscribers may (and are encouraged to) use photos, videos, and other CultureGrams media in appropriately cited assignments such as reports and class presentations? These may even be posted on secure, password-protected school intranets (though not on the open Net).
Easy-download options make it easy to incorporate videos and slideshows into presentations, save favorites in a personal folder, and view them on computers without internet access. CultureGrams' videos are available in QuickTime or Windows Media Player formats—the two options are accessible at the bottom of the player window. Themed photo slideshows can be downloaded as PowerPoint presentations.
Creating student presentations is a great way to promote 21st-century learning skills such as information literacy and collaboration. The CultureGrams Teaching Activities collection has some great ideas on how to incorporate media into projects. See the "Video Comparison" activity below.
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Teaching Idea:
Video Comparison
In this month's activity, students will learn about producing video while making connections between a foreign culture and their own.
Divide students into groups of three or four. Have each group choose a video from the CultureGrams Video Gallery that they are interested in. Longer video clips will work better for this project.
Discuss the anatomy of a video clip by defining the word shot (a continuous piece of video footage) and cut (a transition between two shots). Have the students analyze their video clip by creating a shot list in which they keep track of the content and angle or movement of every shot in the clip.
For example, one entry might read "a close up of a woman cutting potatoes," while another might say "a far shot moving from left to right of a building exterior." Breaking the clip down in this way will help students understand how short video stories are created and how they might create their own. (Full activity.)
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Regional Quiz
How much do you know about the region of
South Asia?
Test your knowledge with these tidbits from CultureGrams:
- What country is an archipelago of approximately 1,190 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean, none of them more than 5 miles (8 kilometers) across?
- What is the most widely spoken language in Afghanistan?
- What three traditional symbols of Islam are found on the flag of Pakistan?
- What is the world's second-most populous country?
- What is Sri Lanka's dominant religion?
- What country was called East Pakistan until it gained independence in 1972?
- What country has an official language called Dhivehi, which is related to Sinhala (the principal language of Sri Lanka) and has roots in Sanskrit?
- What is the popular name for India's motion picture industry, one of the world's largest?
- What is a major, though illegal, crop grown in Afghanistan?
- What is the most popular sport in Sri Lanka?
Answers: 1) The Maldives. 2) Dari (a form of Persian). 3) A crescent moon, a star, and the color green. 4) India. 5) Theravada Buddhism. 6) Bangladesh. 7) The Maldives. 8) Bollywood. 9) Opium. 10) Cricket.
Did you know...
- In India, Hindu families hold a namakaran (naming ceremony) 28 days after a birth; the father whispers the baby's name into the right ear. At four to six months of age, the child is given his or her first solid food, usually daal, a mushy mixture of pulses. Before a girl turns one, her ears and nose are pierced. In northern India, mundan, or the shaving of a boy's head for the first time, is another important ritual.
- Many people in the Maldives must move to the capital island, Malé, for education or work. The densely populated island covers an area of just 1 square mile (2.6 square kilometers). Most residents live in apartment blocks, with the front of most buildings rented out as shops. Families live in small apartments, often with several relatives in cramped conditions. A government initiative to build more housing and ease pressure on the capital resulted in the construction of nearby Hulhumalé, a man-made island. Homes on other islands are more spacious. Most families live in a compound that includes a traditional one-storey home with several rooms, a courtyard, and an open-air bathroom.
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World Holidays
Holidays provide a great way to introduce students to the culture and history of a country. "Observe" a world holiday in your classroom by asking students to research the holiday's origins or learn more about a particular aspect of the country.
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Focus on a Canadian Territory: Yukon
A little larger than the state of California, the Yukon covers an area of 186,272 square miles (482,443 square kilometers). The territory is shaped like a triangle and shares its western border with Alaska. Most of the Yukon has a subarctic climate with long, cold winters and short, mild summers. Yukoners joke that there are only two seasons in the territory: this winter and last winter! Because the climate is also very dry, snowfall is not usually heavy. The northern portion of the territory, along the Arctic Coast, has an arctic climate and is much colder than the south.
Here are some more interesting facts about Yukon:
- The Yukon is home to the world's smallest desert. The Carcross Desert is a stretch of sand dunes that covers an area less than 260 hectares (642 acres).
- There are six times as many caribou as people!
- In the summer near the Arctic Circle, it stays light outside so long that Yukoners can read outside at midnight!
- More than two thousand glaciers are found in Kluane National Park, including Lowell Glacier, which is 65 kilometers (40 miles) long.
- Though it has the second-smallest population in the country (after Nunavut), the Yukon is home to the largest First Nations peoples population in Canada. Native peoples make up more than 25% of the population.
- The Yukon has remained home to many of the animals who lived there before Europeans arrived.
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