Jeff,
Thanks for your ideas. The China Lesson really pulled it all
together for me. I think I will try this when my students come
back.

On 12/24/08, Jeff wrote:
> On 12/24/08, heroleander01 wrote:
>> I teach Grade 6 Geography and I am looking for some ideas
>> about how I can "jazz" up a Culture Project. Right now we
>> do the boring, "Bring in a Poster" thing which the
>> students just hate. Also, we have limited access to
>> computers in our building so most of the work is done at
>> home. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
>
> We've been using the GRAPES acronym when we study world
> cultures in 7th grade. It really does work well.
>
> G = geography R = religion A = achievements P = politics E =
> economics S = social structures
>
> One activity is to have the students use any notes they have
> or the book and fill in a GRAPES chart. They can also draw
> a picture.
>
> You can do a similar activity with the alphabet. The
> directions are below.
>
> GRAPES CHALLENGE! Directions: Using GRAPES as your theme
> think of at least one example for each of the letter of
the
> alphabet. Be sure to write G, R, A, P, E, or S next to your
> example, indicating either geography, religion, achievement,
> politics, economics or social structures.
>
> We also have activities where students look at pictures and
> determine what category of GRAPES the pictures
represent.
> The link below has the pictures we use for part of the unit
> on China.
>
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