Cultural Diffusion Lesson

Cultural Diffusion Lesson

Today's Essential Question:

What is cultural diffusion, how does it happen, and how does it change world cultures?

Cultural Diffusion

This video does a nice job of reteaching what cultural diffusion is and how it happens in our world. Please pay close attention so you can answer the questions that go with this video in the following slides.

Open Ended

Explain what cultural diffusion is in your own words. Then, describe how cultural diffusion happens and give a real-world example of diffusion.

Language Diffusion

This video answers the question: why do we have so many different languages in our world? Pay close attention to how languages spread and evolve in the video!

Open Ended

Explain in your own words how languages began, spread, and changed over time in our world.

Religious Diffusion

This is an animated map that shows how the 5 major religions of the world spread over time. Pay close attention to the types of events that helped spread religion!

Open Ended

Summarize how the major religions spread around the world. What kinds of events do you think would cause religions to spread to new places?

Holidays and Cultural Diffusion

While you learn about different holidays that people celebrate around the world, pay attention to what people do during their celebrations.

Open Ended

Now that you know more about how other cultures celebrate big events in their lives, think about the similarities and differences between the way other cultures celebrate and the way that your culture celebrates holidays/events. Compare and contrast other celebrations to holidays and events that your culture celebrates.