APHG Unit 1
Geography: its nature and perspectives
Unit Overview
The AP Human Geography course and Unit 1 of the course emphasize the importance of geography as a field of inquiry. The course introduces students to the importance of spatial organization —the location of places, people, and events; environmental relationships; and interconnections between places and across landscapes — in the understanding of human life on Earth. Geographic concepts emphasized throughout the course and this unit are location, space, place, scale, pattern, regionalization, and globalization. These concepts are basic to student understanding of spatial interaction and spatial behavior, the dynamics of human population growth and movement, patterns of culture, economic activities, political organization of space, social issues, and human settlement patterns, particularly urbanization. Students learn how to use and interpret maps. They also learn to apply mathematical formulas, interpret models, and analyze quantitative and qualitative geographic data.
Key Geographic Skills/Standards
- How to use and think about maps and geospatial data
- How to understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places
- How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes
- How to define regions and evaluate the regionalization process
- How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places
- How to use and interpret findings through the use of geospatial technologies
- How to interpret maps
- Identify major regions of the world and the United States
Essential Questions
- What is Human Geography?
- How do geographers describe where things are?
- Why do geographers use maps and what do maps tell us?
- Why are geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?
-What is the difference between large scale and small scale?
- What are the three types of regions?
- How does diffusion occur?
- How are different places similar?
Formative Assessments
- 8.4-Student Designed Mental Map
- 8.6-United States Map Quiz
8.13-Kuby SW Assignment
- 8.13-Unit One Vocabulary Quiz
Summative Assessments
- 8.11-YFB Project Due
- 8.14-Unit 1 Test
- Use to assist you with map quiz preparation (U.S. Map Quiz-Friday, Jan. 8)
APHG Unit 1
Geography: its nature and perspectives
Essential Vocabulary
- Use to assist you with map quiz preparation (U.S. Map Quiz-Friday, Jan. 8)
Unit 1 Activities and Required Tasks
- Use to assist you with map quiz preparation (U.S. Map Quiz-Friday, Jan. 8)
Unit 1 Activities and Required Tasks
Activity space
Administrative region
Anthropogenic
Azimuthal projection
Carl Sauer
Cartograms
Cartography
Choropleth maps
Cognitive maps /Mental maps
Concentration
Connectivity
Contagious diffusion
Coordinate system
Cultural barrier
Cultural ecology
Cultural landscape
Density
Dispersion
Distance decay effect
Dot maps
Earth system science
Environmental determinism
Environmental geography
Eratosthenes
Expansion diffusion
Fertile Crescent
Formal region/Thematic region
Friction of distance
Fuller projection
Functional region
Geographical Information Systems
Geoid
George Perkins Marsh
Global Positioning System
Gravity model
Hierarchical diffusion
Human Geography
Idiographic
International Date Line
Intervening opportunities
Isotherms
Large scale
Latitude
Law of retail gravitation
Longitude
Map projections
Mercator projection
Meridians
Natural Landscape
Nomothetic
Parallels
Pattern
Perceptual region
Physical geography
Possibilism
Preference map
Prime meridian
Proportional symbols map
Ptolemy
Qualitative data
Quantitative data
Reference map
Region
Regional geography
Relative/Absolute distance
Relative/Absolute location
Relocation diffusion
Remote sensing
Resolution
Robinson projection
Scale
Sense of place
Site
Situation
Small scale
Spatial diffusion
Spatial perspective
Stimulus diffusion
Sustainability
Systematic geography
Thematic layers
Thematic map
Time-space convergence
Topographic maps
Topological space
Transferability
Visualization
W.D. Pattison
- Use to assist you with map quiz preparation (U.S. Map Quiz-Friday, Jan. 8)
Unit 1 Activities and Required Tasks
Date / Topic / Activities / HomeworkTuesday, Jan. 5 / Introduction to the Course / 1) Welcome, Introduction to Course, TRSS
2) Syllabus, Unit Outline
3) Student Info Sheet
4) Letter to Parents
5) Mental Mapping Activity / 6) Unit 1 Vocabulary-BLOG
7) Parent Letter
8) Mental Mapping Activity
Wednesday, Jan. 6 / Maps, Contemporary Tools and History / Turn in Mental Map
1) Scavenger Hunt (Historical Development of Geography)
2) Article: Four Traditions of Geography….BLOG / 3) Read and Analyze Pattison Article-Four Traditions…BLOG
4) Unit 1 Vocabulary
5) U.S. Map Quiz Prep
Thursday, Jan. 7 / Five Themes of Geography / 1) Review Four Traditions
2) Five Themes of Geography
3) Go over Scavenger Hunt
4) Intro to Your Favorite Band Project / 5) Unit 1 Vocabulary
6) YFB Tour Activity/Project
7) Read Rubenstein Chapter 1 (Pp. 2-8)/KQs for Review
8) U.S. Map Quiz Prep
Friday, Jan. 8 / Scale / 1)U.S. Map Quiz
2) Video Clip: West Wing-Map Projections
3) Lecture: Scale, Scale Models and Skeletons
4) Video: Power of Place (One Earth Many Scales) / 5) Koppen Climate System-BLOG
6) YFB Project
7) Read Rubenstein Chapter 1 (Pp. 9-17)
8) Finish Video: Power of Place (One Earth, Many Scales)
9) Unit 1 Vocabulary
Monday, Jan. 11 / Scale / 1) Lab: Hands On Map and Scale Activity
2) Article: Do Maps Create or Represent Reality? / 3) Work on YFB Project
4) Chapter 1 KQs for Review
5) Unit 1 Vocabulary
Tuesday, Jan. 12 / Regions and Diffusion / 1)Lecture: Regions
2) Regions of the World
3) Types of Diffusion
4) STATE Introduction / 5) Finish YFB Project (Due Mon. Aug. 12)
6) Kuby Southwest Region Assignment-BLOG
7) Read Rubenstein Chapter 1 (Pp. 18-40)
8) Chapter 1 Key Questions for Review
9) Unit 1 Vocabulary
Wednesday, Jan. 13 / STATE Design and Fates / Turn in YFB Project
1) STATE Lottery and Design (Phase I & II) / 2) Unit 1 Vocabulary
Thursday, Jan. 14 / Vocabulary and FRQ Prep / 1)STATE Design (Phase I and II)
2)STATE Round One Fates / 3) Unit 1 Vocabulary Quiz Prep
Friday, Jan. 15 / Vocabulary and FRQ Prep / Turn in Kuby SW Assignment
1) Unit 1 Vocabulary Quiz
2) FRQ Preparations
3) Sample FRQs / 4) Unit 1 Test Prep
Tuesday, Jan. 19 / Unit 1 Test / 1)Unit 1 Test FRQ
2)Unit 1 Test MCQs / 3) Unit 2 Vocabulary
- Use to assist you with map quiz preparation (U.S. Map Quiz-Friday, Jan. 8)
Unit 1 Activities and Required Tasks
- Use to assist you with map quiz preparation (U.S. Map Quiz-Friday, Jan. 8)