1- Change Over Time

How Has the Culture Changed Over Time?

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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, Mali trade routes

  • Did your culture have any big ideas that influenced other cultures? Ex. The wheel, Roman Republic Government structure, Roman Religion

  • Did the leader of your culture influence any other cultures? Ex. Alexander The Great, Constantine

  • Did your culture create any art or literature that influenced other cultures? Ex. Roman architecture, Greek columns, Chinese Art

  • Did your culture have any technology that influenced other cultures? Ex. The calendar

Project Procedures

• 1. Choose one culture you studied this year or a culture you are interested in studying.

  2. Select the three topics below you want to research about your culture (remember you need to prove how that topic changed over time):

Trade/Economy Sharing ideas/Trade Leadership/Government Transportation

Art/Architecture Literature Religion Technology Food Shelter Clothing Medicine

• 1. Create a chart using technology to collect your research.

  2. -Be sure to compare and contrast classical and modern day in your chart

  3. Research the specific aspects of culture you selected

  4. Record your data in your chart or in an organized manner

  5. Focus on the evidence that demonstrates how that topic was during the classical time and how that topic is today

  6. -For example - The Leadership of China | The Shang Dynasty (Classical) compared with Communist China (modern day)

  7. Pick a format to present your project to an audience

  8. Work together to draft, edit, revise, and publish your project

Online Resources for Research

Access the Resources section for databases.

Change Over Time Graphic Organizer

Graphic organizers help us organize our thinking. Got to a Google Docs version of the graphic below to make a copy and add information. Go to File> Make A Copy to make your own copy of the Doc. Save it to your GATP Google Drive folder. Choose a topic to add information about in the first column on the left. Then go to the middle and last columns to show change over time.