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AP Human Geography What is it?

AP Human Geography What is it?. 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 Board FRQ’s discussed within units

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AP Human Geography What is it?

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  1. AP Human GeographyWhat is it?

  2. 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.

  3. Welcome to AP Human Geography • Icebreaker • Introduction • Skill Board • FRQ’s discussed within units • Units - Content and Applied Lessons • Debrief big themes • Sharing ideas as we go • Field Study • AP EXAM

  4. 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%

  5. What is this class like? • Rigorous, interactive course that teaches students how to THINK GEOGRPHICALLY • Students 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 know • Students 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.

  6. 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.

  7. What is Geography? Take out a piece of paper/NoteBooks & write down YOUR definition of Geography. e.g. what YOU believe geography is.

  8. 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:

  9. 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

  10. 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?

  11. Earth at Night - Global Scale

  12. North America at Night - Regional Scale Online: 6/27/2006 - http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/49261main_usa_nightm.jpe

  13. Your State at Night - Local Scale Online: 6/27/2006 -http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/usanight_dmsp_big.gif

  14. Geographic Investigation Process • Level 1 - What? Where? When? • Level 2 - Pattern Identification • Level 3 • Why there? • How did it get there? • Level 4 • So what? • What if? • Skills?

  15. 3 Pronged Analysis

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