Introduction to Human Geography Unit Organizer
The Big Picture:
Human geographers study people and places. The field of Human Geography focuses on how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we
interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our locality, region, and the world. This unit will focus on the
basic elements of Human Geography and tools that geographers use to study phenomenon across space and time. It will also introduce students to the plethora of
ways Human Geography is used in the real world.
Previous Unit: None
Unit Pacing:
8/7 – Syllabus, Policies & Procedures
8/8 – Notebook set-up/issue textbooks
8/9 – What is Human Geography?
8/12 – Pretest
8/13 – What is Human Geography?
8/13 – What are geographic questions?
8/14 – What are geographic questions?
8/15 – What are geographic questions?
8/16 – Why do geographers use maps?
8/19 - Why do geographers use maps?
8/20 – Why are geographers concerned
with scale and connectedness?
8/21 - Why are geographers concerned
with scale and connectedness?
8/22 - Why are geographers concerned
with scale and connectedness?
8/23 - Why are geographers concerned
with scale and connectedness?
8/26 – 8/27 – What are geographic
concepts and how are they used in
Next Unit: Population & Migration
Homework
Key Terms and Phrases:
(Complete Skill Builder on Back)
See Calendar
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Fieldwork
Human geography
Globalization
Physical geography
Spatial
Spatial distribution
Medical geography
Pandemics
Epidemics
Spatial perspectives
5 themes of geography
Location
Location theory
Human Environmental Interaction
Region
Place
Sense of place
Perception of places
Movement
Spatial interactions
Landscape
answering geographic questions?
8/28 – Review
8/29 – FRQ Exam
8/30 – MC Exam
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Cultural landscape
Sequent occupance
Cartography
Reference maps
Thematic maps
Absolute location
GPS
Relative location
Mental maps
Activity spaces
Generalized maps
Remote sensing
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Scale
Region
Functional region
Formal region
Perceptual region
Culture
Cultural trait
Cultural complex
Cultural hearth
Cultural diffusion
Independent invention
Time-distance decay
Cultural barriers
Expansion diffusion
Contagious diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
Stimulus diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Environmental determinism
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Isotherms
Possibilism
Cultural ecology
Political ecology
Unit Objectives/AKS Content Areas:
A. Geography as a field of inquiry
B. Evolution of Key Geographical concepts & models associated with notable geographers
C. Key concepts underlying the geographical perspective; location, space, place, scale, pattern, regionalization, & globalization
D. Key geographical skills:
a. How to use & think about maps & spatial data
b. How to understand & interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places
c. How to define regions & evaluate the regionalization process
d. How to characterize& analyze changing interconnections among places
E. New sources of technologies, such as GIS & GPS
F. Sources of geographical ideas & data: the field