Region
NCSS Content Standards:
2b. Identify and use key concepts such as chronology, causality, change, conflict, and complexity to explain, analyze, and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity.
3f. Describe system changes such as seasons, climate and weather, and the water cycle and identify geographic patterns associated with them.
3h. Examine, interpret, and analyze physical and cultural patterns and their interactions, such as land use, settlement patterns, cultural transmission of customs an ideas, and ecosystem changes.
A region is an area with its own unifying characteristics. A region can be defined by its:
Political features - cities, states, countries, governments, directional location (north, south, east and west) and borders. For example, Northern Africa or Paris, France.
Cultural features - religion, ethnicity, languages, development (3rd world country or underdeveloped nation) and other elements of culture. For example, the Islamic World.
Physical features - rivers, lakes, oceans, mountains and other physical features. For example, the Rocky Mountain Region in the United States.
Cultural Regions of the World
Above is a map of different cultural regions in the world. Using the current event site below, write a three-paragraph response about a current issue in one of the regions on the map. The current event assignment and rubric are also below.
Current Event Assignment Sheet