Option #1
How has the culture changed over time?
Questions to Consider when researching:
What part of (the culture you chose) has influenced other cultures?
 Did your culture trade with other cultures? What influence did
this have?
Ex: The Silk Road
 Did your culture have any big ideas that influenced other
cultures?
Ex: The wheel
 Did the leader of your culture influence any other cultures?
Ex: Alexander The Great
 Did your culture create any art or literature that influenced other
cultures? Ex: Roman architecture
 Did your culture have any technology that influenced other
cultures?
Ex: The calendar
Project Ideas:
1) Choose one culture you studied this year
2) Circle the three topics below you want to research about your
culture (remember you need to prove how that topic changed
over time):
Trade, Sharing ideas, Leadership, Transportation, Art,
Literature, Religion and Technology
3) Create a chart using technology to collect your research.
(Make sure to compare and contrast classical and modern day
in your chart)
4) Show evidence of how that topic was during the classical time
and how that topic is now. Ex: The Leadership of China: The
Shang Dynasty (Classical China), Communist China (modern
day China)
5) Pick a program in the technology menu to present all the
information you learn.
Option #2
How has the geography of a culture impacted the
culture sharing ideas, goods and services with other
cultures over time?
Questions to Consider While Researching:
 What does it mean for a culture to share ideas, goods and
services?
 How does (did) the location of the culture impact the sharing of
ideas, goods and services over time?
 How does (did) the different regions of the culture impact the
sharing of ideas, goods and services over time?
 How does (did) the way humans interacted with the
environment impact the sharing of ideas, goods and services
over time?
 How does (did) the geography impact the movement of people
throughout the culture?
 How did the geographic features of the region help the culture?
 How did the geographic features of the region hold back the
culture?
Project Ideas:
1) Research the geography and geographic features of the culture
2) Find a good, clear picture of your culture (you may use more
than one picture)
3) Label the following parts of the picture to prove that geography
has affected the culture:
 The geographic features that impacted trade
 The geographic features that impacted sharing ideas
Option 3
What can you learn about cultures by comparing and
contrasting art forms?
Visual Arts
 Two-dimensional (painting, calligraphy, textiles
or murals)
 Three-dimensional (architecture, masks, crafts,
pottery)
Performing Arts
 Music (vocal or instrumental)
 Dance
 Theatre
The art form I am going to research is _______________
The three cultures I am going to research are:
____________
______________ __________________
Questions to Consider While Researching: (Use the graphic
organizer for help when researching)
 What are some similarities you noticed in the art form
between the three cultures?
 What are some differences you noticed in the art form
between the cultures?
 What information about the cultures did you learn from
looking at the art?
Project Ideas:
1) Create a venn diagram using your research which compares
and contrasts the art form throughout the three cultures you
researched.
2) Select one or more programs from the technology menu to
share the information you learned.
Option #4
Pick one culture that we learned about this year. For
each culture, compare the leaders they had during the
classical era to the leaders they have today.
Questions to Consider While Researching:
 What are some of the traits of the leaders?
 How did (does) the leader effect the culture?
 How did (does) the leader make connections between their
culture and other cultures?
 How does (did) religion play a role in the leadership of the
culture?
Project Ideas:
1) Use the project sheet with an outline of a body. Write all
around the body traits that you think a good leader should
have.
2) Choose one leader from a classical culture. Research that
leader.
3) On a second project sheet with an outline of a body write down
the traits you learned about the leader of the culture you are
researching.
4) Find out who the leader of that culture (country) is today.
Research that leader
5) Use a final project sheet with an outline of a body and record
the traits you learned about the modern leader.
6) Write down at least 8 interview questions that you would ask
the classical leader, and 8 interview questions you would ask
the modern leader. Include the answers to your questions that
you think each leader would say when asked.
7) Share the interview you created by videoing a role play of the
interview and share it using a program from the technology
menu.
Option 5
Examine three cultures and explain if they have
benefited from interdependence (cultures depending
on each other) with other cultures.
Questions to Consider While Researching:
 Did interdependence benefit the exchange of ideas?
 Did interdependence benefit the exchange of goods?
 Did interdependence benefit the exchange of services?
Project Ideas:
1) Research each culture and find evidence proving if being
interdependence benefited that culture and why.
2) Using technology show the evidence that two or more cultures
depended on each other and helped each other grow either
through the exchange of ideas, goods and/or services.
Option 6
Why do we have governments? How were governments
different in different cultures? How has government
changed over time?
Questions to Consider While Researching:
 What kind of government did the culture have? Ex: Monarchy
 Was there a social structure (ex: The Caste System) that would
have helped govern the culture?
 Did religion play a role in the government?
 How was the leader of the government choosen?
 Did the government help the culture share ideas and goods
with other cultures? Or, did the government prevent the
culture from sharing ideas and goods.
Project Ideas:
1) Using your research about government, you need to answer the
following question: Do you think a culture could be successful
without a government? Why/why not?
2) Use your research as evidence (pretend you are a lawyer and
government is at trial) present a case proving government is
needed or is not needed to make a culture successful.
3) While putting together your evidence keep the following things
in mind:
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Would there be laws?
Are laws necessary?
Would there be schools?
Are schools necessary?
Would there be an army?
Is an army necessary?
What other aspects of a culture would be different without a
government
4) Present your case using technology
Option 7
How does “literature” demonstrate the similarities
and differences of cultures? Compare literature from
three or more cultures.
Questions to Consider While Researching:
 What were the folktales, legends, myths and oral histories of
the culture?
 What influence on the culture did literature have?
 What did you learn about the culture from the literature?
 Did the literature from your classical culture influence
literature from another classical culture?
 Did the literature from your classical culture influence the
literature from any modern cultures?
 Did you read three or more pieces from each culture?
 How is the literature within a culture similar? Different?
 Compare the three cultures, how is their literature similar
and/or different?
Project Ideas:
1) Create a chart about the literature you read. Include what
genre of literature, what you learned about the culture.
2) Compare and contrast the literature within a culture
3) Compare and contrast literature between cultures
4) Use your research to make an educated guess as to why the
similarities and differences exist.
5) Share your findings through technology
Option 8
How has math and/or science achievements of classical
cultures affected your life?
Questions to Consider While Researching:
 What mathematical contributions did your culture discover?
 What scientific contributions did your culture discover?
 What mathematical/scientific contributions did your culture
improve upon?
 How do you use these contributions in your everyday life?
 What would life be like without these contributions?
 Which contribution do you think had the greatest impact on the
world today?
Project Ideas:
1) Choose one contribution that you think had the biggest impact
on your life and explain why
2) Back up your opinion with research (prove your point using
evidence)
3) Show images of how that contribution has changed over time
4) Explain how the world would be without that contribution
5) How did you decide what was the most important contribution?