Download The Cultural Pattern of Religion - Project | GEOG 410 and more Study Guides, Projects, Research Geography in PDF only on Docsity! ADVANCED PLACEMENT HUMAN GEOGRAPHY FINAL PROJECT UNIT IV: CULTURAL PATTERNS AND PROCESSES II: RELIGION, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER Title: The Cultural Pattern of Religion Objectives: The student will differentiate the various religious patterns in the world and the geographic spatial patterns of their outflows. The student will investigate where various religions have become part of the local community. The student will relate to the religious differences found in his/her community. Materials Needed: Overhead Transparency Projector World Map showing major religions Computers with internet access Blank outline world maps, outline maps for local town/community Color pencils or markers Links: Geography for Life: The National Geography Standards - Geography Standard 10 – Human Systems – The Characteristics, Distribution, and Complexity of Earth’s Cultural Mosaics Key concepts: religious regions, pattern of diffusion, cultural enrichment Steps: 1. Teacher introduces the religious patterns by first defining monotheistic and polytheistic religions. Using the overhead, teacher will exhibit world map of religions. 2. Students will be divided into groups which correspond to the major religions. Each group will research the assigned religion and color in the corresponding area on their world map where the religion is dominant. Then through research and discussion, the students will devise the reason that the particular religion spread to other parts of the world. 3. Extension of this activity to the local community, students will be asked to describe the particular types of buildings associated with the assigned religion and whether they have seen these buildings in their local town and asked to identify the names or whereabouts of these buildings. Students will mark their maps to indicate locations of these religious buildings. 4. To further extend the lesson, an optional suggestion could be to survey the students and then ask students who practice a specific religion to interpret some of the ways that they celebrate their religion. 5. Finally, students could be paired up with members from different religious groups and they could interview each other. Assessment: Student presentations (“This Is Your Religion”) could be arranged whereby one student would “introduce” another student by stating the name of the student, his/her religion, where it originated from and what part of town the religious building is found and some information on how the religion is celebrated.
