AP Human Geography



AP Human Geography Auld

Unit One Pacing Guide

*DATES/ACTIVITIES subject to change as necessary. For example, we will give a county-mandated pre-assessment during this unit…yet unsure of date at this time!*

Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives

Monday/Tuesday, 7/31 & 8/1 DAY ONE (Textbook distribution in all sections – Tuesday)

1. Class introduction/Syllabus review (Interactive Blog)

2. AP Scores of past

3. Student Questionnaire

Wednesday/Thursday, 8/2 & 8/3 DAY TWO (Rub pgs. 18-20) *No reading quiz*

1. DUE: Chapter 1 Online quiz (LINK: ) **NOTE: This is a different textbook than we read. Some units the #’s of chapters won’t align. ALWAYS use the link of each unit’s pacing guide!**

2. PARTNER READING (above page #’s)/Reading Log

3. Hand-out Unit One Vocab List (Demonstrate notecard)

Friday/Monday, 8/4 & 8/7 DAY THREE (Rub pgs. 5-15)

1. READING QUIZ (with notes)

2. DUE: 5 Vocab Cards (cultural landscape, physiological density, distortion, map scale, situation)

a. Partner Review/Grade (1-5)/5 more (hearth, relative distance, distance decay, GIS, projection) together

3. Global Grid basics

4. Opener: Location questions using book

5. Lecture: Location/Absolute location-time zone activity; Site/Situation

6. Prisoner’s of Geography (go over Test Your Knowledge Form)

a. ARTICLE is pdf file on the blog!

Tuesday & Wednesday, 8/8 & 8/9 DAY FOUR (Rub pgs. 15-17; 20-25)

1. READING QUIZ (with notes)

2. Kuby, “Part I: Scale”, Worksheet 1-10 & 1-11 (Overhead T2)

3. Begin Cartography Lecture/Map Projection comparison activity using book (handouts?)

4. LAPTOPS: Map types: Kuby, “Part II: Thematic Maps”, (my handout with questions)

5. Time permitting: Sharma’s Vocab List individual work

Thursday & Friday, 8/10 & 8/11 DAY FIVE

1. DUE: Chapter 2, Activity 1: Mapping Culture Regions

a. Human Geography in Action (link/instructions on blog!)

b. Print off final map; Email answers to questions (jauld@)

2. 5 Themes & Pattison’s 4 Traditions w/lecture

3. Lecture warm-up question: What is the South?

4. Lecture: Place & Region

a. Place - Overheads

b. Region – Overheads

5. Video: Power of Place, “Boundaries and Borderlands” (teacher questions)

Monday/Tuesday, 8/14 & 8/15 DAY SIX (Rub pgs. 25-32)

1. READING QUIZ (with notes)

2. DUE: Prisoner’s of Geography Article (Test Your Knowledge form)

3. Cultural ecology

a. NOTES: Environmental determinism vs. possibilism

4. Cultural Ecology examples

a. Netherlands, China (3 Gorges Dam), UAE (Dubai)

i. Online resources: video clips, pictures, etc.

Wednesday/Thursday, 8/16 & 8/17 DAY SEVEN (Rub pgs. 30-33)

1. READING QUIZ (with notes)

2. Globalization

a. Case Study: Big Mac Attack/Big Mac Economic Index

3. Video: Power of Place, “One Earth Many Scales” (Globalization & Revolt Pt2)

4. Map Analysis: Fig 1-17 (pg 132)

5. Internet activity: American MNC’s (map out global offices by function)

Friday/Monday, 8/18 & 8/21 DAY EIGHT (Rub pgs. 33-40)

1. Map Quiz: SW Asia/Northern Africa/Central Asia

(Use Shepherd software online) **Directions/link on blog post**

2. Spatial Distribution and Interaction

a. density vs. concentration vs. pattern

b. types of diffusion w/examples (overhead T14)

Tuesday/Wednesday, 8/22 & 8/23 DAY NINE

1. Finish any activities/videos from unit

2. Vocab/Unit Review

3. Vocab Quiz (7 short answer; 6 fill-in-the-blank) NO WORD BANK!

Thursday/Friday, 8/24 & 8/25 DAY TEN

1. Review Vocab quiz results

2. Test review strategies for weekend

3. 500 Questions books (in class only)

4. FRQ#1: Cultural Ecology

Monday, 8/28 A & B – Testing in Leadership AND AP Human Geography!

1. Unit Test (50 multiple choice)

2. FRE#2: Globalization

3. Begin work on Unit Two Vocab list

4. Intro Population Video

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