Mrs. Stewart's Class
  • Home
  • 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
    • Daily Agenda-APHG
    • 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
  • Free Time & Games
  • Current Events & Global Issues
  • About
  • Contact

APHG Unit 4

Unit focus

Unit 4 Enduring Understandings: What you need to know & understand

  • The contemporary political map has been shaped by events of the past.
  • Spatial political patterns reflect ideas of territoriality and power at a variety of levels.
  • The forces of globalization challenge contemporary political-territorial arrangements.
​Source: CollegeBoard AP Human Geography Course Description 2015.
Unit Concepts: Political Organization of Space
The main themes of this unit should focus on significant world issues, such as the impact of colonialism on states, the fragmentation of states today, and the opposing issue of supranationalism.
A. Territorial dimensions of politics
1. The concept of territoriality
2. The nature and meaning of boundaries
3. Influences of boundaries on identity, interaction, and exchange
4. Federal and unitary states
5. Spatial relationships between political patterns and patterns of ethnicity, economy, and environment
B. Evolution of the contemporary political pattern
1. The nation-state concept
2. Colonialism and imperialism
3. Democratization

C. Changes and challenges to political–territorial arrangements
1. Changing nature of sovereignty
2. Fragmentation, unification, alliance
3. Supranationalism and devolution
4. Electoral geography, including gerrymandering
5. Terrorism
Targeted Learning
Key Learning Activities:
1. Map work to familiarize students with the location of regions, sub-regions, and individual countries.
2. A Socratic seminar on a reading pertaining to the opposing patterns of devolution and supranationalism.
3. Each student will be responsible for researching and reporting to the class a case study from the Political Geography chapter, such as the successes and failures of the European Union, or issues surrounding devolution in the former Yugoslavia.
Assessment Strategies
  • 1 Formative MCQ and 1 Formative FRQ; culminating summative is an MCQ and FRQ​

Resources for study & preparation


APHG TextBOOK resources

page numbers may vary slightly according to the edition you have of the textbook
Fouberg (9th)
  • CH 8: Political Geography (pp. 211-243)​
Rubenstein (10th) 
  • CH 8: Political Geography ​(pp. 265-305)
Wood (2nd)        
Unit 4: Political Organization of Space (pp. 99-129)  

presentation Slides

Culture Presentations:
  • Boundaries & Shapes of States
  • Types of States & Supranational Organizations
  • Boundary Disputes & Autonomy
  • Geopolitics & Political Theories PPT​
  • Gerrymandering PPT
  • Formative FRQ - HINTS
  • Summative FRQ HINTS ppt
  • Formative MCQ Hints
  • Summative MCQ Hints PPT

Flashcards & study guides

Flashcards (Quizlet):
  • APHG ​​Chapter 8 (29 terms)
  • APHG Chapter 8 (42 terms)
  • APHG Chapter 8 (94 terms)

Study Guides/Reading Guides
  • Unit 4 Vocabulary - Defined with specific examples
  • ​Unit 4 Test Study Guide
  • Unit 4 Fouberg Study Guide
  • Unit 4 Rubenstein Study Guide​

Practice Quizzes & Tests

  • Kaplan Practice Quiz (20 questions)
  • Governing the States (Geographyquiz.org)
  • CH. 8 Fouberg Practice Quiz​
  • Characteristics of a State (Geographyquiz.org)
  • CH. 8 (Unit 4) Kahoot! (37 questions)
  • Political Geography Practice Quiz (Hill McGraw Textbook)

Websites

  • Types of Boundaries (APHG student-created website)​
  • Geopolitical Hotspots (Geographical.co.uk)
  • Wallerstein's Diagram of 

Misc.  news Articles, etc. 

  • ​Boundaries - Overview (PDF)​​

Videos

Tutorial videos (Rubenstein-based video tutorials. Provided by Andrew Patterson Educational Channel)​​
-- Good for Review --or-- If you Were Absent from Class: 
  • Chapter 8, Issue 1: Political Geography: Where are states distributed?
  • Chapter 8, Issue 2: Why are nation states difficult to create?
  • Chapter 8, Issue 3: Why do boundaries cause problems?
  • Chapter 8, Issue 4: Why do states cooperate and compete?
  • Political Theory Tutorial: Heartland, Rimland & Organic, Shatterbelt Theories  (not Andrew Patterson but VERY HELPFUL!!!)

Other Useful Videos:
  • APHG Unit 4 Overview: Political Organization of Space (7+ min.)
  • How many countries are there? (depends...) 
  • Defining & Demarcating Borders & Border Disputes: Google Maps is Different in Other Countries (Human Interests)
  • 10 Smallest Countries on Earth
  • The Evolution of World Democracy (The Daily Conversation)
  • ​Enclaves and Exclaves: The Most Complex Political Borders in the World
  • Exclaves: Weird Borders: Why Countries Have Pieces Detached 
  • Vlog #29: Nations, States, Nation States
  • Which Countries Are About to Collapse? (NowThisWorld)
  • Gerrymandering: How Drawing Jagged Lines Can Impact an Election (TEDEd)
  • TEDTalk: Parag Khanna: maps the future of countries
  • How Maritime Law Works
Case Studies for Geopolitics:
  • Arctic: Its Time to Draw Borders on the Arctic (VoxBorders)
  • China: How 156 Years of British Rule Shaped Hong Kong (VoxBorders)
  • China: Are Hong Kong & Macau countries?
  • China: Why China is Building Islands in the China South Sea (VoxBorders)
  • China is Erasing Its Border with Hong Kong (Vox)
  • China: How Africa is Becoming China's China (Wendover)
  • Europe's Most Fortified Border is in Africa (Vox)
  • Haiti: Divided Island: How Haiti and Dominican Republic Became Two Worlds (VoxBorders)
  • Israeli Settlements Explained (VoxBorders)
  • Rwanda: Hotel Rwanda Movie Trailer; Scene: "How Can They Not Intervene?"
  • Rwanda: Ghosts of Rwanda: Frontline PBS Documentary video + background and 10 year follow-up.
  • Spain: Catalonia's Independence Movement Explained (Vox)
  • Spain: The Most Complex Political Borders in the World, Part 2
  • U.K.: Brexit Explained (The Daily Conversation)
  • U.K.: How Brexit Could Create a Crisis at the Irish Border (Vox)
  • Ukraine: Why Ukraine is Trapped in Endless Conflict (Vox)
  • U.S.: Why Puerto Rico is not a U.S. State (VoxBorders)
  • U.S.: Between Borders: American Migrant Crisis (New York Times) 
  • U.S.: Living on U.S.-Mexican Border: Native Americans Face Daily Struggle (ABCNews)
  • U.S.: Trump's Wall Ignites Tension in Arizona
  • Venezuela: The Collapse of Venezuela Explained (Vox)
​Interesting for "edutainment" value:​​
  • 20 Craziest Borders on Earth
  • Top 10 Countries Whose Name Gets Confused with Other Countries
  • How Powerful is Your Passport? (The Economist)
  • Which Countries Can't You Visit as an American? (NowThisWorld)
  • Top 10 Shortest Lived Countries

  • Unknown Countries in Europe
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • 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
    • Daily Agenda-APHG
    • 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
  • Free Time & Games
  • Current Events & Global Issues
  • About
  • Contact