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CultureGrams & World Conflicts Today Updates
World Conflicts Today has been updated with the latest news and information about some of the world's most relevant conflicts. To stay up to speed on these conflicts, check out Afghanistan, Basque Country, Chechnya, Colombia, and Darfur.
Don't forget to make use of the graphs and data tables function inside CultureGrams.
Wondering about the number of internet users in Mali vs. Belgium? How about the literacy rates in various African nations? Build your own data tables to draw comparisons between the world's countries or regions.
This is also a useful tool for students who want to compare statistics from their country with those from another part of the world.
Reminder: An all-new interface will go live in the coming weeks! Catch a glimpse of our new look before it goes live.
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Teaching Idea:
Classifying Global Regions
In this month's lesson, students will better understand which characteristics are used to classify regions and what such classification can tell them about the world.
Have students discuss the similarities among the countries in an assigned region and attempt to draw conclusions about why the countries have been grouped together.
Students can discuss both human characteristics as well as physical characteristics. For example, do the people in these countries speak a common language, share a common history, follow the same religion, practice similar customs, share the same level of economic development?
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Regional Quiz
How much do you know about the region of
Western Europe?
Test your knowledge with these tidbits from CultureGrams:
- What's the only country with Catalan as its official language?
- In which country do all Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Islamic clergy have official recognition from the government and receive their salaries from the state?
- Which country is hexagonal in shape and is sometimes referred to as Hexagone?
- In Portugal, what does it mean to make a "V" sign or "rabbit ears" behind someone's head?
- Which Western European country doesn't have a written constitution?
- "The land of fire and ice" is which country's unofficial nickname?
- Which country has four official languages?
- Beginning in the 1500s and ending in 1648, the Netherlands was ruled by which country?
- Despite its central location, which country is part of neither NATO nor the EU?
- Until 1995, which country's constitution prohibited divorce?
Answers: 1) Andorra. 2) Belgium. 3) France. 4) It suggests that the person has a lack of morals. 5) The United Kingdom. 6) Iceland. 7) Spain: Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Basque. 8) Spain. 9) Switzerland. 10) Ireland.
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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 Province
Canada's warmest summers are found in New Brunswick. Because the province has so much coastline, most of New Brunswick is warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer than areas further inland. As a result, the growing season is also twice as long in the coastal plains than the northwest region of the province. New Brunswick's original inhabitants--the Maliseet, the Mi'kmaq, and the Passamaquoddy--took advantage of the more temperate climate near the coasts, settling within easy access of the coasts and building canoes to aid in fishing and transportation. Here are some additional facts:
- New Brunswick has the highest tides in the world, reaching up to 17 metres (56 ft)--the height of a four-story building. Two hundred billion tons (220.5B tons) of water rush in and out of the Bay of Fundy twice a day every day!
- The famous Reversing Falls are a series of waterfalls on the Saint John River. The incoming tides from the Bay of Fundy force the falls to reverse their course and flow uphill twice a day, defying the force of gravity!
- The world's first individually wrapped chocolate bars were made in 1910 in Saint Stephen, which is Canada's Chocolate Town. They sold for five cents apiece.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2006
Centraal Station:
Every hour, multiple trains arrive in and leave from Amsterdam's Centraal Station, at the end of the street featured here. The station, a spectacular building, was built in 1889 by the same architects who designed the Rijksmuseum.
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Bonus: Spotlights & Challenge Quests
National Hispanic Awareness Month is an annual celebration of the culture, traditions, achievements and heritage of Hispanic Americans.
Our Spotlight of the Month commemorates the myriad contributions of Hispanic Americans and emphasizes the diversity of Hispanic culture in the United States.
El Dia de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is an important holiday to Mexican and Hispanic-American communities in the United States.
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