4. What can we learn about culture from the local area?

Activity 1 - How can we research culture?

Activity Tasks

Recall - Using your unit Padlets and/or mind-maps, make a list of all the features or aspects that make up a culture. Refer to the picture (-->) here for ideas.
Discuss - For each feature of culture, discuss how you would research this if you were outside of school on a fieldtrip. What would we look for? What examples could we collect in Hong Kong?
Plan - When trying the research culture, we need to use different methods and techniques to research. For each aspect of MISO, suggest how it could be used to research culture on a field-trip in Hong Kong:
1. Media - images, graphics, maps, books, magazines, diagrams, charts, articles, internet
2. Interview - Interview or email/contact, talk
3. Survey - google forms, questions
4. Observation - experience, watch, experiment

Activity Tasks

Identify - As you explore the ground floor of the HK History Museum, try to identify one traditional Chinese cultural feature from pre-colonial Hong Kong, for each of the following categories. Use this worksheet to help you record your findings:
1. Architecture
2. Knowledge and Stories
3. Language
4. Religion and Rituals
5. Traditions and Ceremonies
6. Techniques and Skills
7. Tools and Objects
8. The Arts
9. Food and Drink
10. Architecture
11. People and Fashion
Record - For each cultural feature that you identify, take a photograph and/or draw a sketch to record what it looks like. Remember to upload your photographs to the worksheet for homework.
Describe - For each cultural feature you identify, write a short description of it. Try to include basic details like what it is, where it has come from, when it was created, who created it, why it was created, and how it was/is used or how it influenced culture.
Evaluate - Pick one of the more significant cultural features you identified from pre-colonial Hong Kong. Write a paragraph explaining how you think it influences Hong Kong culture today.

Activity Tasks

Identify - As you explore the second floor of the HK History Museum, try to identify one British cultural feature from colonial Hong Kong, for each of the following categories. Use this worksheet to help you record your findings:
1. Architecture
2. Knowledge and Stories
3. Language
4. Religion and Rituals
5. Traditions and Ceremonies
6. Techniques and Skills
7. Tools and Objects
8. The Arts
9. Food and Drink
10. Architecture
11. People and Fashion
Record - For each cultural feature that you identify, take a photograph and/or draw a sketch to record what it looks like. Remember to upload your photographs to the worksheet for homework.
Describe - For each cultural feature you identify, write a short description of it. Try to include basic details like what it is, where it has come from, when it was created, who created it, why it was created, and how it was/is used or how it influenced culture.
Evaluate - Pick one of the more significant cultural features you identified from colonial Hong Kong. Write a paragraph explaining how you think it influences Hong Kong culture today.

Activity Tasks

Identify - As you explore the square (Urban Council Centenary Garden), try to identify one global cultural feature from post-colonial Hong Kong, for each of the following categories. Use this worksheet to help you record your findings:
1. Architecture
2. Knowledge and Stories
3. Language
4. Religion and Rituals
5. Traditions and Ceremonies
6. Techniques and Skills
7. Tools and Objects
8. The Arts
9. Food and Drink
10. Architecture
11. People and Fashion
Record - For each cultural feature that you identify, take a photograph and/or draw a sketch to record what it looks like. Remember to upload your photographs to the worksheet for homework.
Describe - For each cultural feature you identify, write a short description of it. Try to include basic details like what it is, where it has come from, when it was created, who created it, why it was created, and how it was/is used or how it influenced culture.
Evaluate - Pick one of the more significant cultural features you identified from post-colonial Hong Kong. Write a paragraph explaining how you think it influences Hong Kong culture today.