AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY MATERIALS NOTEBOOK 1 INCH PAPER

AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

MATERIALS • NOTEBOOK 1 ½ INCH • PAPER • RED PEN • PENCIL/PEN (BLUE or BLACK INK) • HIGHLIGHTER • SUPPLEMENT BOOK • SMALL STAPLER (IF POSSIBLE) -Dollar store or Walmart if possible a mini-stapler

GRADING • Test 50% • Quiz/Projects 35% • HW/Classwork/Participation 15%

LITERACY • WHITE BOARDS DURING LECTURE • READING STRATEGIES : THINKPAIR-SHARE, SQ 3 R

AP HUMAN GEO EXAM FORMAT Section 1 (60 minutes) – 75 multiple choice questions Section 2 (75 minutes) – 3 Free Response Questions (frq’s)

2009 Statistics Globally, 47% of test takers achieved a score of “ 3” or higher.

WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY? “Geography is a representation of the whole known world together with the phenomena which are contained therein. ” -Ptolemy, Geographia (2 nd century CE) human geography: studies the spatial aspects of human existence… -how people & their activities are distributed across Earth

FOR EXAMPLE…WHAT’S BEING MAPPED?

THE FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

Subfields of Geography

REQUIRED SUPPLEMENT BOOK

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

GEO: NATURE AND ITS PERSPECTIVES • GPS • GIS • SCALE • HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY • ROBINSON MAP • MERCATOR MAP • LOOKING FOR SPATIAL PATTERNS

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

POPULATION

URBAN GEOGRAPHY gentrification

GLOBALIZATION ECONOMIC GEO -the increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world economically, politically, & culturally Core-periphery theory • Development vs underdevelopment • ECONOMIC CORE • London, Tokyo, Japan, Germany • Primary, secondary, tertiary sectors Panama

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“SENSE” OF PLACE -every place is unique with its own identity Imagine some other place where you lived…or a place that you visited or would like to visit. What do you remember about the “sense” of the place? Or what ideas do you have about a place you may like to visit?

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