• Standard 1: Understands and applies media, techniques, and processes related to the visual arts.
  
  
• Standard C [High School]: Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of culture and cultural diversity, so that the learner can apply an understanding of culture as an integrated whole that explains the functions and interactions of language, literature, the arts, traditions, beliefs and values, and behavior patterns.
  
  
• Standard E [High School]: Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of culture and cultural diversity, so that the learner can demonstrate the value of cultural diversity, as well as cohesion, within and across groups.

• Standard H [High School]: Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of people, places, and environments, so that the learner can examine, interpret, and analyze physical and cultural patterns and their interactions, such as land use, settlement patterns, cultural transmission of customs and ideas, and ecosystem changes.

• Standard 4: The geographically informed person knows and understands the physical and human characteristics of places.

• Standard 10: The geographically informed person knows and understands the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.

• CultureGrams Online Edition—Interviews (Faces of the World)

1. Ask each student to write down their answers to the following questions:
   
   
   • How old are you?
   • Where do you live (city/region and country)?
   • How many brothers and sisters do you have?
   • Describe your home. (How many bedrooms does it have? Where do you play or relax? Where do you do your homework?)
   • Describe a typical day of the week for you. What are your daily responsibilities in your family? What do you do in your free time?
   • What is your favorite game or sport?
   • What is your favorite holiday? Describe what you do to celebrate the holiday.
   • What is your favorite food?
   • What subjects do you study in school? What is your favorite subject? What do you like or dislike about school?
   • What do you worry most about? Why?
   • What is more important to you? Why?
   • What do you hope to be or do when you grow up?
   
   
   
2. Using the image gallery in the Interviews feature, ask each student to access one interview for a person under age 18 (and, if possible, for someone within three years of their own age).
   
   
3. As students read their interview, have them take note of similarities and differences between the interviewee's answers and their own answers. Have them summarize their findings in a short essay or a list of similarities and differences. What similarities surprised them? What differences surprised them?
   
   
4. As a class, discuss the students' discoveries. Did they expect to have much in common with someone from another part of the world? What aspects of life in another country did they find strange or unfamiliar? What other questions would students want to ask people from other countries that would help them learn more about them? What type of information helps define a culture?

On a wall in the classroom, create a class interview gallery by posting the students' photos alongside their responses to one of the interview questions, which they each select.

Alternatively, post the students' photos alongside one of their responses on a class web page. Avoid posting the entire interview, as students may slant their responses if they know it will be publicly displayed.