Cultural Landscapes Unit One | 10 Lessons Featuring the Stories of How People & Places Intersect
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People Are Culture’s Cultural Landscape collection includes an introduction to the definition of cultural landscapes and looks at diverse areas of the world and how humanity has shaped their environment in ways that are universal and also unique.
This Unit presents 10 lessons based on cultural travel writer Meg Pier’s visits to these cultural landscapes and her keen observations on what they reveal about the way people and place interact, and first-person interviews with real people sharing their perspective on the cultural landscape they call home. Each lesson takes learners on a fascinating journey with a compelling beginning, middle, and end that is sure to engage their curiosity, imagination, and critical thinking.
The lessons are intended as a springboard to explore the various human practices that involve interacting with the terrain, and in many cases, leaving an imprint, and are by no means exhaustive. These 10 lessons offer a window into how a society’s ideas, values, and practices impact the physical environment. The Unit also shines a light on how cultural landscapes are a part of our global history and collective identity.
GRADE: Grades 7 – 12 & Higher Education
SUBJECT:Â World Cultures, World History, Social Studies, Geography, Anthropology
FORMATS:Â 1 Large Zip File with 22 PDFs
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Description
This collection includes stories of cultural landscapes in Colombia, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Madeira, Malta, Mexico, Scotland, and the U.S., as well as an interview with a world-renowned eco-architect.
The 10-lesson unit represents approximately 30 hours of learning, with each lesson likely to take a student three hours to do the readings and complete the comprehension/reflection exercises.
Expected Learning Outcome
These lessons include clear expected learning outcomes that support students in understanding cultural landscapes through first-person perspectives, while building intercultural awareness and connections between individual experience and global traditions.
- Students will identify what constitutes a cultural landscape and how 10 different localities meet the criteria in ways that are universal and unique.
- Students will articulate insights into their own cultural landscape and how it is similar and different to what they learned
- Students will analyze how cultural expressions (like art, textiles, and handicrafts) reflect their landscape
- Students will identify and compare how each cultural landscape is made of tangible and intangible characteristics
- Students will make connections between cultural landscapes and broader global contexts (globalization, sustainability, cultural preservation), showing critical thinking about identity and Place
Cultural Landscape Lessons included in this bundle are:
Cultural Landscapes | Protecting Colombia's Mangroves with Sustainable Tourism
Cultural Landscapes | Explore the Rich History of the Yucatan Peninsula
Cultural Landscapes | Boats & Coastline of Malta
Cultural Landscapes | Castle & Ethnic Neighborhood of Ferrara, Italy
Cultural Landscapes | Iceland's Otherworldly Terrain Sparks Imagination & Beliefs
Cultural Landscapes | Geology, Legends & Lifestyle of Scotland's Isle of Skye
Cultural Landscapes | Lunar Landscape of Ireland's Aran Islands
Cultural Landscapes | Levadas of Madeira & Man's Ingenuity
Cultural Landscapes | Landscape Design, Sustainability & Web of Life
Cultural Landscapes | Far-Reaching Influence of the Humble Cranberry
Here's What You Will Get in This Bundle
Reading & Reflection Collection
Each of the 10 lessons in our collection looks at the meaning of cultural landscapes and the factors that shape them with intriguing interviews and feature articles. While there are two formats, both of these sets of lessons present information in the form of a story. Stories are remembered up to 22 times more than facts alone. Stories engage both critical thinking and emotions, with the result being better comprehension and retention of information.
Each Cultural Landscapes Lesson Includes
- a 20-70 page PDF lesson on a cultural landscape that explores its Human-Environment Interaction; Sense of Place; Readability as Text; and Intangible and Tangible Elements
- an overview on the meaning and significance of cultural landscape
- one-page Reflections assignment
Important Copyright Information
In buying this curriculum, you are purchasing a license to use the PDF for your own children. You may make copies for your own children, but you may not share (email, download, print and distribute, resell, etc.) any portion of this material to others. Licensing is available for group, school, and co-op use. Please contact Meg Pier for details on group licensing (me*@**************re.com).
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