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New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Cultures on the Edge
Explore culture around the world at this quarterly online magazine.
You'll find photographic essays by some of the world's best photographers,
video interviews, news and commentary all designed to expose you
to new cultures. Visit India, Afghanistan, Kenya, the Andes, South
Africa, and South and South East Asia.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School Teacher
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Social Studies: Geography
Curriculum Standard 11
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and human
geographic features that define places and regions.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten
students will be able to:
- Analyze how language, tradition, and other cultural elements
shape peoples' perceptions and opinions about places and regions.
Curriculum Standard 13
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of human
systems on Earth's surface including the characteristics, distribution,
and migration of human populations; the nature and complexity of
patterns of cultural diffusion; patterns and networks of economic
interdependence; processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement;
and the forces of cooperation and conflict that shape human geographic
divisions.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade
six students will be able to:
- Employ demographic and cultural characteristics, including
age, gender, ethnicity, and language, to describe populations.
- Define the major components of culture and write a description
of their culture.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade
ten students will be able to:
- Analyze how various factors, including resources, boundaries,
strategic locations, culture, and politics, contribute to cooperation
and conflict within and between countries.
Social Studies: History
Curriculum Standard 18
Students will demonstrate a knowledge of the chronology and significant
developments of world history including the study of ancient, medieval,
and modern Europe (Western civilization) with particular emphasis
on those developments that have shaped the experience of the entire
globe over the last 500 years and those ideas, institutions, and
cultural legacies that have directly influenced American thought,
culture, and politics.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of the distinctive characteristics
of major contemporary societies and cultures of Africa, the
Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
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