Essential Concepts & Enduring understandings
Unit 1 ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW & UNDERSTAND
- Geography, as a field of inquiry, looks at the world from a spatial perspective.
- Geography offers a set of concepts, skills, and tools that facilitate critical thinking and problem-solving.
- Geographical skills provide a foundation for analyzing world patterns and processes.
- Geospatial technologies increase the capability for gathering and analyzing geographic information with applications to everyday life.
- Field experiences continue to be important means of gathering geographic information and data.
Unit focus
A. Geography as a field of inquiry
B. Evolution of key geographical concepts and models associated with notable geographers
C. Key concepts underlying the geographical perspective: location, space, place, scale, pattern, regionalization, and globalization
D. Key geographical skills:
F. Sources of geographical ideas and data: the field, census data, and satellite imagery
B. Evolution of key geographical concepts and models associated with notable geographers
C. Key concepts underlying the geographical perspective: location, space, place, scale, pattern, regionalization, and globalization
D. Key geographical skills:
- How to use and think about maps and spatial 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
F. Sources of geographical ideas and data: the field, census data, and satellite imagery
Key Learning Activities
This is an introductory unit, and all the concepts briefly mentioned, will be reintroduced later in the curriculum. There are no Learning Activities other than to read, and acquaint oneself with the general idea of the curriculum
Assessment Strategies
A short MCQ test to introduce the style of question AP usually asks. It focuses on simple definitions and examples rather than connections.
This is an introductory unit, and all the concepts briefly mentioned, will be reintroduced later in the curriculum. There are no Learning Activities other than to read, and acquaint oneself with the general idea of the curriculum
Assessment Strategies
A short MCQ test to introduce the style of question AP usually asks. It focuses on simple definitions and examples rather than connections.