In Grade 9's Second MYP Unit, we focus on the issue of "culture loss" in the developing world.
To confront this, we created the "Kaleidoscope Cultural Museum Project” which aims to preserve the uniqueness of world culture by recording the little-known culture of different nations around the world in websites that are accessible to everyone.
Each person contributed 10 sections (separate cultural threads) to their websites, exhibiting a minimum of 3 cultural items in each section that represent the threatened culture of their chosen country.
The project is motivated by the negative effects of globalization in creating a shared world culture that overpowers respective national cultures and reduces diversity in the world.
Please take a look at the websites they have produced and I am sure you will learn something new about each country that you visit - I certainly have, and so did the students.
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