Culture Ch. 4

AP Human Geography

Ch. 4- Culture

Lesson 1: Folk vs Popular culture

For your country, Identify elements of it's culture (do not include language, religion, or race/ethnicity) Here

This includes political and material culture.

Jack O'Lanterns! article

Lesson 2: Diffusion

MacDonalds's Article

Lesson 3: Culture and the Physical Environment

Look up your country's cultural foods using this website

Lesson 4: Effects of and on popular culture

Determine if your country has a MacDonald's using this website
If yes: What does this indicated about the influx of popular culture in your country?
If no: Why not?

World History Current Events Wednesday Photo Sites

Here are a few sites that will help you search for your "iconic" photo.

Ince you've found your photo, right click and elect copy, open microsoft word, paste it into a new document, resize if you need to, and print it.


Getty News Photography

Reuter's News Photos

Yahoo News Photos

National Geographic

Google Images

Time Magazine

The London Telegraph

CH. 3 Migration

Lesson: Push/Pull Factors

What push/pull factors might be influencing immigration into and out of your country?

Lesson: Net in/Out Migration, Demographics of a "typical migrant", International migration and distance decay

Does your country have Net in or out migration? Why?

Lesson: Historical US Migration patterns

What percentage of your country’s immigrants are refugees? Given what you know about them, where are they most likely fleeing from?

Lesson: Migration within one country

Articles
Outmigration from the US


Myths about global migration


Online Resources
Migration data

Population Pyramids

Go to the US Census Page

Choose your country and 2011 and hit "submit"

Choose the yellow tab that says "population pyramid"

Right click on picture and Print it out!

ENJOY!

epidemiological transition from lecture

A break down of the reasons for death in the 4 stages of population  development

Some demographic transition information

Just a few visuals of the model with some interesting information. The first one includes visuals of population pyramids for each stage:

The second one has some qualifying information for each stage: