Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
Course:
Erin Edick
AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Unit Name and #:
Dates:
Unit IV:
1/12-1/16
Tuesday
NO SCHOOL MONDAY
What are we learning? Political Organization
Daily Objective: I can describe and analyze how space is politically organized into states and
nations.
TEKS/AP/Standards:
1. Use and think about maps and spatial data.
2. Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Warm-Up and Turn in Reading Study Guide 8.1
2. Go over Religion Quiz
3. Notes/Discussion Political Organization (Slides 1-15)
4. Power of Place Activity: Borders and Boundaries
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Reflection Questions, Borders and Boundaries Activity
Checks for Understanding: Pre-Test Questions, Unit 8.1 Reading Guide
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Textbook, Binder, Pen/Pencil, Paper, Handouts
Wednesday/Thursday
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Read Textbook pg. 234- 242 and work on Reading Study Guide 8.2—due
Monday
What are we learning? Political Geography
Daily Objective: I will be able to analyze the roots and challenges of multistate nations,
multinational states, and stateless nations.
TEKS/AP/Standards: Define regions and evaluate the regionalization process.
Use and think about maps and spatial data.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Warm-Up
2. Paper Lab Activity: Rise of Nationalism and the Fall of Yugoslavia
3. Introduction Key Question #2: How do states spatially organize their governments?
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
Paper Lab Activity
Checks for Understanding:
Cold Call Review, Exit Ticket
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Textbook, Binder, Pen/Pencil, Paper, Handouts
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Read Textbook pg. 234-242 and Complete Reading Study Guide 8.2—due
Monday
What are we learning? Spatial Organization of Government
Daily Objective: TEKS/AP/Standards: I can describe and analyze the impact of imperialism and
colonization on the diffusion of nation-state models and growth of the capitalist world
economy.
Friday
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Warm-Up and Turn in 8.2 Reading Guide
2. Colonialism and the Nation State (Slides 17-27)
3. Finish Yugoslavia Case Study—due Monday
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Checks for Understanding: Exit Ticket
Yugoslavia Case Study
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Binder, Handouts,
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW:
 Read Textbook pg. 234-242 and Complete Reading Study Guide 8.2—due Monday
 Kurdistan Case Study due Tuesday
 8.1 and 8.2 Quiz Tuesday 1/27