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May 15: review geographic locations + models & theories

5/15/2018

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Warm-up: play geo puzzle games to review countries, U.S. states, landforms, landmarks...

Pick some of the following to practice & test your knowledge of where in the world everything is located:
  • World Landmarks 
  • Identify Countries on the Map 
  • World Capitals  
  • World Map Puzzle Countries of the World
  • World Map Puzzle - Geography Now!
  • World Map Puzzle - 35 Major Cities
  • World Map Puzzle - Physical Features
  • U.S. 50 States - Puzzle 

Class activity: concept mapping all units

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You will work with partners to develop concept maps for each of the units. You will rotate through stations to keep adding onto a concept map started by another group before you.

Be sure to take photos of the concept maps created to help you study for the AP Exam on Friday!
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Exit-ticket: Kahoot!

You will play in "team mode" with your table group members:
  • Kahoot! Models & Theories Review (35 questions)

HW: Complete the Vocabe "finale" handout

Be sure to pick up a copy of the "vocab finale" handout with matching vocab from each of the units -- this will help you review some of the trickier vocab terms from each unit.
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MCQ + FRQ Practice Today...

5/11/2018

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Warm-up: Big Mac Economics

Record as many APHG concepts & terms come to mind while watching this video...

formative mcq: units 1-4

Today, we will practice for the AP Exam with a Units 1-4 MCQ Formative (just practice)

FRQ Mini-Workshop

We will go over the Mock FRQ results...
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Then... we will go through FRQ stations in which you will practice outlining for FRQs.
You will swap outlines with a partner and score each other's outlines based on general accuracy for concept/content and use of APHG terminology you plan to use.


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Review for Mock FRQ...

4/24/2018

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Today we will prep for Thursday's Mock FRQ Exam.

You will find a bunch of helpful links on Mock FRQ Hints presentation.  There is a copy being provided to each class that you will work on collaboratively for adding review details. 

For additional course review material, please look at the information and links provided on the APHG Exam Review webpage
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Formative MCQ + cities of the future

4/16/2018

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After today's MCQ we will take a look at a few urban challenges and how this is currently being addressed in redevelopment of cities as well as in the development of new cities ("Smart Cities" and in trying to focus on sustainable city design)

Helpful Links:
  • UK’s Greenbelt
  • Wikipedia: City Beautiful Movement
  • ​​Tomorrow's Cities: Singapore's Plans for a Smart Nation (BBC, April 2017)
  • New Urbanism or Traditional (Suburban) Neighborhoods?
  • Katy, Texas Video: Principles of New Urbanism


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April 10 & 12: urban & suburban challenges & decline

4/10/2018

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On Tuesday... we will look at 2 different phenomena occurring post-Industrialization in the U.S. and U.K.   We see some cities experiencing urban decline with people moving to suburban areas; we also see a decline in suburbia with a renewed interested with returning to the urban areas. And we also see a shift in some creating new urban areas within suburbia. Today we will take a look at what is causing the ebb and flow of people from urban to suburban and back to urban areas. The where and why this is happening and what the future implications are is what we will explore today.

Later in the week on Thursday... we will also look at some of the other urban challenges facing many of the rapidly growing cities in other regions of the world. There is a document dropped in your APHG Folder called "Urbanized: Journey to Planet Earth". We'll watch the 25 minute video in class while you follow along answering the questions. There are additional helpful links at the bottom of this related to megacities, largest cities, and well-planned cities.
Use all of these cities as potential case-studies (hint, hint, hint...)
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Helpful links for this week:
  • Unit 7 Urbanization - Lecture Slides
​​Redlining: 
  • National Geographic newly-released maps show how housing discrimination happened
Gentrification: 
  • What happens after a neighborhood gets gentrified? (The Atlantic)​
U.S. Public Housing Challenges:
  • Congestion pricing, public housing, and a sustainable New York City
  • Why is the U.S. losing public housing?
  • AD Classics: Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project / Minoru Yamasak
Food Deserts:
  • Atlanta's Food Deserts Leave Its Poorest Residents Stranded and Struggling

HW: Case study of urban decline: syracuse

Read and answer questions for the following case study for homework:

  • City Case Study: Syracuse   (this file has been dropped in your APHG Drop Folder)
  • also review Borchert’s Epochs
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April 6: city models by world region

4/6/2018

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Today in class we will take a look at different models that have been created to explain the type of city layout often found in different regions of the world. It is important to note their features and the role that history and culture has played in the morphology of the urban landscape.

Helpful Links for Today's Class:
  • Unit 7 Urbanization - Lecture Slides
  • Urban Models Lecture  PPT
  • Dry Erase Board U.S. City Urban Models   ​

HW: ​STUDY FOR FORMATIVE FRQ ON CPT

Study for the Formative FRQ on Christaller's Central Place Theory (CPT).
Be sure you have read the article placed in your APHG Drop folder, have completed the questions document (also in your Drop folder) and have looked through the FRQ Hints slides.
​Formative FRQ Hints - Christaller’s CPT
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Urban Geo: Central Place Theory (CPT)

4/4/2018

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Today we will focus on Christaller's Central Place Theory (CPT) for looking at what services are located within urban areas, understanding Rank-Order Rules of cities and why we see clustering in some urban areas and not in others. 

HW: Finish reading Fouberg CH. 9; study for Ch. 9 Vocab Quiz 

Fouberg Chapter 9 - Urban Geography​​​ (56 terms)
Unit 7 Cities & Urban Land Use (57 terms)


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Intro to urbanization unit: when & why people started living in cities?

4/2/2018

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Urbanization is an important unit of study in geography as on average 4 out of 5 people live in the urban area in Western Europe and North America and Japan... and in Australia, 9 out of 10 people... in developing Asia, 4 out of 10 people--but those statistics are rapidly changing with urbanization. More and more people around the world are moving from the rural areas, from an agrarian based society, to the suburbs and cities, in search of a better life, more economic opportunities and a higher standard of living. For too many, this mass migration is met with hardship and governments struggle to keep up with the influx of so many people as it stresses the existing infrastructure. For this reason, this is a short but significant unit. How do we rise to the challenges we face with modernization and urbanization? How do we meet the needs of an increasingly urbanized global population?

Today we'll take a look at when, where & why people began living in cities. We'll go over some of the APHG terms for this final unit of the course and we'll review some of the terms we've already learned this year and how they apply to the study of the urban landscape.
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Helpful Links for today's class:
  • Urban eyesore of the month
  • ​Services Google Slides (combines Unit 6 and Unit 7)
  • Unit 7 Urbanization - Lecture Slides


HW: Read Fouberg CH. 9 Key Issue 1&2

Read...
Key Issue/Question 1: When and why did people start living in cities?
Key Issue/Question 2: Where are cities located and why?

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march 20: review for unit 6 summatives

3/20/2018

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Today, we will go over your formative FRQ and MCQ results.
We will also do a review activity using the following handout: Review Activity

Afterwards we will play a game of Kahoot! to review. Unit 6 Kahoot Review

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HW: Study for the unit 6 summative mcq+frq


  • Summative MCQ Hints   
  • Summative FRQ Hints
  • Unit 6 APHG webpage - all of the presentations, articles, videos, etc. plus practice quizzes are on this page.
  • ​Unit 6 Kahoot Review
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Industry & Services: Corporate social responsibility

3/16/2018

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  1. Visit your favorite brand's website...
  2. Look for something called "CSR" (Corporate Social Responsibility)...
  • EX: GAP, Inc,       Lululemon
  • What is their corporate social/environmental mission statement (do they even have one)?
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  • How do they monitor & measure their impact?
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  • How do they compare with other similar companies selling similar products?
    • EX: Compare Starbucks with Coffee Bean or Grounds For Change
    • EX: Compare Walmart with IKEA or Uncommon Goods
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Link to GoodGuide.com
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HW: Be SURE YOUV'E COMPLETED UNIT 6 STUDY GUIDE!

It is important you are keeping up with the study guides. If there is any assignment or document you have NOT completed yet, be sure you do so!
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