Unit I: Nature and Perspective
AP Human Geography emphasizes the importance of geography as a field of inquiry and introduces students to the concept of spatial organization. Knowing the location of places, people, and events is a gateway to understanding complex environmental relationships and interconnections among places and across landscapes.
Geographic concepts emphasized throughout the course are location, space, place, scale of analysis, pattern, regionalization, and globalization. These concepts are basic to understanding spatial interaction and spatial behavior, the dynamics of human population growth and migration, patterns of culture, political control of territory, areas of agriculture production, the changing location of industry and economic development strategies, and evolving human settlement patterns, particularly urbanization. Students learn how to use and interpret maps and spatial data, apply mathematical formulas, and interpret models in order to better understand the world from a spatial perspective.
Geographic concepts emphasized throughout the course are location, space, place, scale of analysis, pattern, regionalization, and globalization. These concepts are basic to understanding spatial interaction and spatial behavior, the dynamics of human population growth and migration, patterns of culture, political control of territory, areas of agriculture production, the changing location of industry and economic development strategies, and evolving human settlement patterns, particularly urbanization. Students learn how to use and interpret maps and spatial data, apply mathematical formulas, and interpret models in order to better understand the world from a spatial perspective.
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Note: Not all of these assignments will be assigned. Please utilize the class calendar to see which assignments must be completed, as well as their due dates.
Class Syllabus Tools of a Geographer Tools of a Geographer - Reading Packet Unit I Vocabulary Packet Notable Geographers Scavenger Hunt -- Resource Sheet Chapter 1 Study Guide My Top Places - Rubric |
Unit I PowerPointsChapter Study GuidesExtra Credit OpportunitiesYouTube Video ReviewsMap ReviewsDifferent Types of Maps PowerPoint
Interactive Map Review Game - Focus for Unit I is North and South America |