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APHG Unit 1

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.
​Source: CollegeBoard AP Human Geography Course Description 2015.

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:
  • 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
E.     New geographic technologies, such as GIS, remote sensing, and GPS
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.

APHG TextBOOK resources

  • Rubenstein (10th)  Chapter 1: Thinking Geographically (Pages 2 to 43)
  • De Blij (9th) Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Geography (Pages 1 to 35)
  • Wood (2nd)  Unit 1: Geography: It’s Nature and Perspectives (8 to 29)

presentation Slides

  • Unit 1, Part 1: Geo Terms, Concepts & 5 Themes of Geography 
  • Rubenstein Chapter 1 
  • 5 Themes of Geography - Review (includes info. on regions)
  • Types of Maps
  • Maps - Review 
  • Map Analysis
  • Timezones - Review ​​
  • Continents: the "Great Continent Debate" ​
  • Map Projections PPT
  • ​Map Projections (another PPT)
  • Unit 1 Overview PPT – Part Two
  • ​Diffusion​
  • The Importance of Scale -- Images 

Flashcards & study guides

Flashcard Sets
  • Chapter 1 (Fouberg) Vocabulary Flashcards - Quizlet
  • Rubenstein Chapter 1 - Quizlet
  • APHG Unit 1 - Exam Flashcards - Cram.com
Study Guides:
  • Unit 1 Pre-Study Guide
  • Unit 1 Study Guide
  • CH. 1 Reading Guide (you will need to make a copy)
  • Unit 1 Test Study Guide

Websites

  • Learner.org: "Power of Place" - video and webpost series explore spatial geography
  • Map Projections Explained - Axismaps.com
  • TrueSize.com
  •  Remote sensing vs. GIS -- what's the difference?​
  • How Google Builds its Maps (The Atlantic)
  • Regions -- Formal, Vernacular, Functional (Sciencestruck.com)
  • Diffusion of Hip-Hop (Maps)
    • And accompanying essay: "The Syncopated Geography of Hip-Hop"

Misc. 

  • Purpose of Maps, Thematic Maps (PDF of non-AP textbook excerpt)

Videos


Useful videos:
  • Spatial Distribution  (Study.com video)
  • TED Talk: The Best Stats You've Ever Seen (Hans Rosling)
  • BrainPop: 5 Themes of Geography (see, its quite elementary... You'll get this easily!)
  • APHG Unit 1 - Geo Basic Concepts Review: "How do Geographers Describe Where Things Are?"  (10:57 min.; Youtube presentation/recorded lecture by Andrew Patterson Edu Channel)
  • APHG Unit 1 - Video Lecture: "What is there, why there, why care"  (15:01 min.; Youtube presentation/lecture by Zack Elrod)
  • Why Most Maps are Very Wrong
  • ​Why all world maps are wrong
  • Earth, Parallels, Meridians, Latitude and Longitude
  • Understanding Time Zones
  • ​The World's Weirdest Timezones
  • Regions of the World (short lecture video reviewing formal, functional and perceptual regions)

​Interesting for entertainment value:
  • Miss. South Carolina Explains Why Americans Cannot locate the U.S. on a Map
  • West Wing (Why are we changing maps?) 
  • Geography, Right Here, Right Now
  • Why Should You Care About Geography?
  • Yakko’s World (What is a country? What is a region?)
  • Can You Answer These 3 Geography Questions?

Practice Quizzes & Tests

  • CH. 1 (Fouberg): Intro to Human Geography Practice Quiz
  • Mr. Lunaw's APHG Unit 1 Practice Quiz - Rubenstein Questions (10 Qs)
  • Maps & Contemporary Tools - Geographyquiz.org
  • Spatial Thinking Quiz- Geographyquiz.org
  • APHG Unit 1 Practice Test - Highschooltestprep.com
  • Unit 1 Kahoot! 28-Question Review
  • Unit 1 Kahoot! 90-Question Review
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  • AT Geography & Field Research
    • AT Geo: Daily Agenda
    • Geography 101: Intro to Geography
    • Unit 1: Inequalities
    • Unit 2: Demographics
    • Unit 3: Agriculture, Food & Health >
      • Community Health Webquest >
        • Water-borne pathogens
        • Vector-Borne Diseases
        • Pandemics
    • Unit 4: Urban Realm
    • Fieldwork
    • Country Portfolios
    • Geography Careers & Programs
  • World History 9
    • Daily Agenda - WH9
    • Unit 0: Thinking Like a Historian
    • Unit 1: Foundations of Civilizations
    • Unit 2: Revolution
    • Unit 3: Conflict
    • Unit 4: Globalization & Global Issues >
      • World History Voices Project - Students Digital Products
  • Social Studies/History Resources
  • AP Human Geography
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    • APHG Unit 1: Geography: Nature & Perspectives
    • APHG Unit 2: Population & Migration
    • APHG Unit 3: Culture
    • APHG Unit 4: Political Geography
    • APHG Unit 5: Agriculture & Rural Land Use
    • APHG Unit 6: Industrialization & Economic Development
    • APHG Unit 7: Cities & Urban Land Use
    • APHG Exam Review
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