Alabama Social Studies SS24.HG.4b
The Standard
- SS24.HG.4
- Identify the characteristics, diffusion, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
Differentiate between material and nonmaterial culture within a society, including folk customs.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Culture and Geography
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students tell physical objects apart from shared beliefs and practices in a community. They explain how an object can be part of a folk custom without being the custom itself.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given an annual town quilt display, a student identifies the quilts as material culture and the repeated display as nonmaterial culture. They explain why the display is a folk custom.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a photo of a custom the custom itself, rather than a record of it. They may think folk customs must be old or rural, or that an object and its related practice must fit the same category.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A neighborhood holds a lantern parade each fall. Name one material item and one nonmaterial folk custom, then explain the difference.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Bring a clay pot and a card reading 'Neighbors pass down pottery skills each spring'; partners sort the pot and practice into two columns.
Ask: When a town hangs handmade quilts at its annual fair, which part is an object and which part is a folk custom?
Play a card sort with pottery, festival songs, woven baskets, and greeting rituals; students explain each choice to a partner.
Show a flyer for an annual town quilt display; students identify the quilts as objects and the recurring display as a folk custom.
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Related Standards
- SS24.S.4a
Describe ways in which cultures differ, change, and resist change, including countercultures, subcultures, and ethnocentric beliefs.
- SS24.HG.7b
Compare and contrast ceremonies based on religious traditions in a variety of cultures, including marriages, funerals, and coming-of-age rituals.
- SS24.HG.4a
Identify and describe essential aspects of culture, including architecture, art, belief systems, customs, food, languages, religion, technology, and traditions.
- SS24.HG.7
Describe ways religion influences cultures, citing examples from around the globe.
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