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Geography · Grade 7

Culture, Language and Regional Identity

Learners read culture in the landscape — signs, buildings, fields and food — then map how the world's roughly 7,000 languages and its major belief systems are distributed and how they spread through migration, trade, empire and technology. They finish by exploring regional identity: how mountains, oceans, history and language combine to give places such as Switzerland, Papua New Guinea and Polynesia their character.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 minutes
  • Culture and identity check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, estimate, highlight a text, pick map regions, match pairs and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Identify material and non-material culture traits and read cultural clues in a landscape.
  • Describe the distribution of major language families and explain how languages spread or become endangered.
  • Describe the distribution of major religions accurately and neutrally and explain how belief systems spread and shape places.
  • Explain how physical and human characteristics combine to create a regional identity, including in multilingual places.

Lessons

  1. Reading culture in the landscape 5 steps2 practiceabout 22 min
  2. Languages: families and how they spread 6 steps4 practiceabout 26 min
  3. Belief systems and sacred places 6 steps4 practiceabout 24 min
  4. Regional identity 6 steps3 practiceabout 24 min
  5. Culture and identity check 10 questions at the end

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Games to practice with

  • Globe ExplorerSpin a real 3D globe, flip to the flat map, and find continents, oceans and countries.
  • Pin the PlanetDrag the pin onto wonders, cities and exact latitude and longitude points.
  • Route PlannerFind the shortest way around town, dodge closed roads, and measure trips with a scale bar.

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