Culture Shock Project - 9th Grade Geography

Objective: To understand, and hopefully appreciate, the many unique differences between cultures that exist.

Your Job: You are responsible for researching and presenting unique (what many would call strange) aspects of different cultures.

From the list below, choose 5 topics to explore. For each topic, you will try to find a different culture to represent it. You will present your research in both written and visual form.

For each topic include:

- a 5 sentence paragraph explaining the strange custom.
- a 5 sentence paragraph describing the people that practice this custom.
- a map of where these people live
- and at least one picture to visually show the cultural practice.


The List:

Gender roles
Religion
Food
Worship
Clothing
Architecture
Traveling
Body
Dance
Art
Literature
Beliefs
Entertainment
Living conditions
Concepts of beauty
Concepts of wealth
Concepts of God

The Links

Below you will find some links that should help you get started with your project. They are just that - a start.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IS A GREAT PLACE TO START: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/

They have all sorts of archived stories about all kinds of people from all over the world.


http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php?rog3=BM&rop3=107734

http://www.go2peru.com/cix_witch_market.htm
http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Bizarre_World
http://bizarre-blog.travelchannel.com/read/south-africa-diving-into-culture
http://travel.discovery.com/tv/bizarre-foods/bizarre-foods.html.
http://trifter.com/practical-travel/world-cuisine/extremely-controversial-bizarre-and-unusual-delicacies-around-the-world/
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/26013_bizarre-culture-of-primitive-tribes-from-around-the-world