Oklahoma Social Studies WG.C.3

WG.C.3 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• WG.C.3.1

  Compare the world’s major cultural landscapes to analyze cultural differences, cultural identity, social mores, and sets of beliefs which determine a sense of p...

• WG.C.3.2

  Describe and draw conclusions about the spatial dimensions of culture as defined by language, religion, and ethnicity.

• WG.C.3.3

  Analyze the role of the environment in influencing a region’s culture.

• WG.C.3.4

  Explain the processes of cultural diffusion and interdependence, analyzing their impact on defining a region.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students compare maps and photos to describe how language, religion, ethnicity, and customs vary within and across regions. They use evidence to explain how climate, migration, and trade shape local practices.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can use maps to link a port city’s languages to trade routes and a local food to climate. They can name an exception to a regional pattern and support it with evidence.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat a whole region as one culture or assume people who share a language also share a religion. They may claim climate determines beliefs or that borrowed customs replace local ones.

04

How to Assess It

Give students language, religion, climate, and trade maps of South Asia. Ask them to identify one cultural pattern, one exception, and one possible cause supported by map evidence.

1. 01

   Give pairs printed language, religion, climate, and trade maps of South Asia; have them mark two overlaps and one exception.

2. 02

   Show market photos from Mumbai and Casablanca; ask, 'What do signs and foods suggest about identity, and what can’t these photos tell us?'

3. 03

   Play map-match: students pair language and religion map cards with regions, then defend each match using one visible clue.

4. 04

   Compare two local restaurant menus with grocery store origin labels, then map one ingredient’s path into your town.

• WG.C.1.1

  Analyze key concepts underlying the geographical perspectives of location, space, place, scale, pattern, regionalization, and globalization.

• MWH.C.1

  Analyze the impact of the patterns of ancient political, economic, and cultural development.

• 7.C.5

  Evaluate the development and impact of culture on the major regions and peoples of the Eastern Hemisphere.