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Welcome to AP Human Geography
Find a seat - set up your territory :-)
Start the Icebreaker activity- try to meet at least five people as you fill in the sheet.
Welcome to AP Human Geography
Icebreaker Introduction
Skill BoardFRQ’s discussed within units
Units - Content and Applied LessonsDebrief big themesSharing ideas as we goField Study AP EXAM
Course Outline Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives 5-10% Population 13-17% Cultural Patterns and Processes 13-17% Political Organization of Space 13-17% Agricultural and Rural Land Use 13-17% Industrialization and Economic Development 13-17% Cities and Urban Land Use 13-17%
What is this class like?Rigorous, interactive course that teaches students how to THINK GEOGRPHICALLYStudents will develop excellent thinking and problem solving skills and gain a new perspective on the world in which we live.Students will develop and/or improve active reading comprehension skills that will enhance their overall academic performance.Interactive Notebooks - show me what you knowStudents will learn the content of geography plus we will DO geography.We take at least two field studies during the year- One is to the surrounding metro area of La Habra where we analyze the geographic layout of the city and the other will be to Brea Mall to complete a spatial analysis of the mall.
The Exam
two-hours and 15 minutes
75 multiple choice (60 minutes)
3 essays in free response section (75 minutes- answer all 3 FRQ’s)
Students who score high enough on the exam can receive college credit for taking the course.
What is Geography?
Take out a piece of paper/NoteBooks & write down YOUR definition of Geography.
e.g. what YOU believe geography is.
Definitions – (Use Cornell Style Notes)
Literal Definition: a description of the earth
Emmanuel Kant: “History looks at change across time. Geography looks at change across space.”
Hartshorn: “Geography is the discipline that seeks to describe and interpret the variable character from place to place of the earth as the world of man.”
Greenland: “Geography is the study of the distribution and interrelationships of the elements of the human environment and the relationships between humans and the physical environment.”
Your Definition:
Method vs Perspective
Geographic Method: using geographic information to DESCRIBE the earth
Geographic Perspective: a geographic grid (tool) through which information is INTERPRETED
Example: The Earth at Night
Geographic Investigation Process-Learn it, know it, love it, live it!
Level 1 - What? Where? When?
Level 2 - Pattern Identification
Level 3
Why there?
How did it get there?
Level 4 (prediction)So what?
What if?
North America at Night - Regional Scale
Online: 6/27/2006 - http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/49261main_usa_nightm.jpe
Your State at Night - Local Scale
Online: 6/27/2006 -http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/usanight_dmsp_big.gif
Geographic Investigation ProcessLevel 1 - What? Where? When?Level 2 - Pattern IdentificationLevel 3
Why there? How did it get there?
Level 4 So what? What if?
Skills?