HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
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What is Human Geography? Pedagogy Goals Content
Areas of Study Human Geography in Action Getting
Started Resources
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What is Human Geography?

People to write about the physical structure of
Earths surface and human activities upon it
human geography
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Human Geography is the study of where humans
their activities and institutions such as ethnic
groups, cities, and industries are located and
why they are there.
Human Geography also examines interactions of
humans with their environments and draws on basic
elements of physical geography.
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Why? Why There?
Israeli Palestinian conflict
HIV/AIDS Worldwide
genocide
BP Gulf Oil Spill
World Cup
Bubonic Plague
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Pedagogy
How to teach APHG?
tolerance
Globalization
Future Leaders
ethnocentrism
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Goals On completion of the course, the student
should be able to
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• Use and think about maps spatial data
• Understand and interpret the implications of
  associations among phenomena in places
• Recognize and interpret at different scales the
  relationships among patterns and processes
• Define regions and evaluate the regionalization
  process
• Characterize and analyze changing
  interconnections among places

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Content Areas of Study

• Geography Its Nature and Perspectives
• Population
• Cultural Patterns Processes
• Political Organization of Space
• Agricultural Rural Land Use
• Industrialization Economic Development
• Cities Urban Land Use

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1. Geography 5-10

• Field of inquiry
• Maps and geographers
• Geographic concepts
• Location, Space, Place, Scale, Pattern,
  Regionalization, globalization
• Skills - How to use, interpret, recognize, and/or
  define
• maps/spatial data
• phenomena in places
• Relationships at different scales of patterns
  processes
• Regions regionalization process
• New technologies
• GIS, GPS
• Sources of Geographical ideas
• Census data

Robinson Projection
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Population - 13-17

• Geographical analysis
• Consequences of density, distribution, and scale
• Patterns of composition age, sex, race,
  ethnicity
• Natural hazards past, present future
• Growth decline over time/space
• Trends historical future projections
• Theories Models
• Patterns of fertility, mortality, health
• Regional variations of demographic transitions
• Effects of population policies
• Population Movement
• Push/Pull factors
• Voluntary involuntary migration various scales
• Migration selectivity
• Short-term, local movements, pace

Demographic Transitional Model
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Cultural Patterns Processes13-17

• Concepts of Culture
• Traits, Diffusion, Acculturation, Cultural
  regions
• Cultural Differences
• Language, Religion, Ethnicity, Gender, Popular
  Folk Culture
• Environmental impact of cultural attitudes
  practices
• Cultural landscapes identity
• Values preferences
• Symbolic landscapes sense of place

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4. Political Organization of Space13-17

• Territorial dimensions of politics
• Territoriality concept
• Boundaries
• Nature meaning
• Influences on identity, interaction,
• exchange

• Challenges to inherited politicalterritorial
  arrangements
• Changing nature of sovereignty
• Fragmentation, unification, alliance
• Spatial relationships between political patterns
  patterns of ethnicity, economy, environment
• Electoral geography, including gerrymandering

• Evolution of contemporary political patterns
• Nation-state concept
• Colonialism imperialism
• Federal unitary states

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5. Agriculture Rural Land Use 13-17

• Major Ag production regions
• Ag systems bioclimatic zones
• Variations within zones effects of markets
• Linkage flows among regions of food production
  consumption

• Development Diffusion
• Neolithic Ag Revolution
• Second Ag Revolution

• Rural land use settlement patterns
• Models Von Thunen
• Settlement patterns major ag types

• Modern Commercial Ag
• 3rd Ag Revolution
• Green Revolution
• Biotechnology
• Spatial Organization diffusion of industrial ag
• Future food supply environmental impact

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6. Industrialization Economic Development
13-17

• Contemporary patterns impacts of
  industrialization development
• Spatial organization of the world economy
• Variations in levels of development
• Deindustrialization economic development
• Pollution, health, quality of life
• Industrialization, environmental change, and
  sustainability
• Local development initiatives government policies

• Key concepts
• Growth Diffusion of industrialization
• Changing roles of energy technology
• Industrial Revolution
• Evolution of economic cores and peripheries
• Geographic critiques of models of economic
  localization, (i.e., land rent, comparative costs
  of transportation), industrial location, economic
• Development, world systems (i.e., Wallerstein)

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7. Cities Urban Land Use

• Functional character of contemporary cities
• Changing employment mix
• Changing demographic social structures

• Definitions of Urbanism
• Origins evolution of cities
• Historical patterns of urbanization
• Rural-urban migration urban growth
• Global cities megacities
• Models of urban systems

• Built environment social space
• Comparative models of internal city structure
• Transportation infrastructure
• Political organization of urban areas
• Urban planning design
• Patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, class
• Uneven development, ghettoization, and
  gentrification
• Impacts of suburbanization edge cities

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Human Geography in Action
Unit of Study Field Trip Location Overview
Geography Campus Walk Create Map
Cultural Patterns Processes Visit Houses of Worship Islam (Sunni Sha), Judaism, Buddhism, other religions On a map identify ethnicity race conflicts worldwide and examine origins of conflicts
Political Organization of Space State Board of Elections or General Assembly Population, apportionment and drawing district lines (judgeships, congressional districts)
Agriculture Rural Land Use Local working farm, biotechnology firm or university depart., food processing plant Collect data and predict future ag production rural land use critique models
Industrialization Economic Development Chamber of Commerce or local manufacturing plant Examine the changing geography of jobs critique models
Cities Urban Land Use City Planning/Zoning Department Exam past, present planning for population citys vision for land use making projections using all models integrate terms (i.e., gentrification and gehttoization, blockbusting, redlining)
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Debriefing Field Trip

• Examine data
• Complete assignment
• Presentations
• Discussions
• Evaluation Field Work

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Getting Started

• AP Coordinator
• One or Two Semesters
• Parents
• Resources Support
• Permission
• AP Night/Nature of Course
• E-mail lists
• Summer Assignment
• Collaboration
• Choosing textbooks
• Professional Development/Training
• AP Exam
• Colleges Universities-Credits Acceptance
• Format
• Preparation
• Professional Organizations Identify resources
• AP Central
• Syllabus
• AP Designation

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Resources
Type Address Overview
Data www.cia.gov/library/publications/theworld-factbook/geos/gz.html http//cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html CIA. The World Factbook
Countries A-Z www.atlaspedia.com/online/country_index.htm
Map sites http//showmappingworlds.com/
Videos all units http//www.learner.org/powerofplace/ Power of Place
Census Bureau http//factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_langen www.prb.org http//demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/CensusData.html Population data
AP Central apcentral.collegeboard.com apcentral.collegeboard.com/humangeo Course description, teaching tips, sample syllabi, lesson plans, articles, teacher resources, discussion groups, newsletter, information on exam, sample free-response and scoring guides
Reading Assignments The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman Guns, Germs, Steele, by Jared Diamond (video)
Global Connections www.pbs.org/wghb/globalconnections www.nationalgeographic.com/
Textbooks Kuby, Rubenstein, Knox/Marston, DeBlij, etc.
Multilingual Newspaper Translator www.humanits-international.org/newstra/index.html
Teacher Guides National Council for Geographic Education. The Journal of Geography 99, no 2/3 (May-August 2000). Provides broad view of the different units of study in APHG
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References

• de Blij, H.J., and Alexander B. Murphy. Human
  Geography Culture, Society, and Space. 7th ed.
  New York John Wiley, 2003.
• Knox, Paul L., and Sallie A. Marston. Places and
  Regions in Global Context Human Geography. 3rd
  ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. W.H. Freeman,
  2003.
• Kuby, Michael, John Harner, and Patricia Gober.
  Human Geography in Action.3rd ed. New York John
  Wiley, 2004.
• National Council for Geographic Education. The
  Journal of Geography 99, no. 2/3 (May-August
  2000).
• The Power of Place Geography for the 21st
  Century series. N.p. Annenberg/CPB, 2003.
  Video.
• Rubenstein, James M. The Cultural Landscape An
  Introduction to Human Geography. 7th ed. Upper
  Saddle River, N.J. Prentice Hall, 2002.
• www.creativecommons.org
• www.google.images.com