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 * Considering Culture Assignment Instructions**
 * The Big 6 Research Model**

v You will:
 * //Step 1 – Task Definition (What needs to be done?)//**
 * 1) Investigate your country’s culture through the creation of powerful fat questions (refer to the first three essential questions from the student unit handout). Seek information to answer those questions.
 * 2) Present that information on your country’s culture to the class in the form of an oral presentation **__supported__** by a power point presentation.

You will need to collect information on 3 – 4 of the following aspects of your country: · **Geography** – absolute & relative location, climate, weather, terrain, population density, population distribution, population composition · **Science, Technology & Innovation** – inventions, infrastructure, degree of modernization, tools and ways of doing things to make life easier · **Beliefs, Values & Customs** – religions, life cycle events or ceremonies, annual ceremonies, status - These can become guides or patterns for how to live. · **Social Organizations** – family, government, community organizations, peer groups, education system · **Communication** – ways of expressing ideas and emotions – language, nonverbal communication, art, mass media, communications technology · **Famous People & Places** - key people or places which have had a lasting impact upon the culture

You will also research and analyze 2-3 aspects from below the water line of the “Cultural Iceberg”.

Begin analyzing the facts you have located by considering the following questions:

1. How these influences have shaped your culture?

2. What the expressions of your culture tell us about your society.

v Who can I talk to get the information I need? v What can I read to get the information I need?
 * //Step 2 – Information seeking Strategies (What resources can I use?)//**

v Where will I get my information?
 * //Step 3 – Location and Access (Where can I find these resources)//**

v How will I select which information is relevant. v How will I record my chosen information? v How will I use and organize the information?
 * //Step 4 – Use of Information (What can I use from these resources)//**

Explain and share with your class mates the critical connections you have made about factors that have influenced the culture of your country. v How will I present it?
 * //Step 5 – Synthesis (What can I do to make and finish the job?)//**
 * 1.** Oral Presentation
 * 2.** Supporting PowerPoint Presentation


 * __REMINDER:__** In your presentation you must include 3 - 4 of the Components of Culture and 2 - 3 aspects from below the waterline of the //Cultural Iceberg//.
 * //__For every one of the selected items that you are presenting you will need to share your analysis guided by the two analysis questions from STEP 1.__//**
 * //__This presentation is not a list of facts. This presentation is a well researched analysis of your culture.__//**

v You will be assessed according to how well you rate against the Considering Culture Presentation rubric. v Our Essential Learning focus will be: i. Knowledge seekers ii. Communicators iii. Caring v Assessment components: i. Presentation There will be some time to work on this in class but it will be limited. Therefore it will involve homework.
 * //Step 6 – Evaluation (How will I know I did my job well?)//**