AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 1ST QUARTER PLAN
Dates
Brian Miller & Kyle Linder
Standard/SOL
Topics
Unit 1: Everything happens in a place: the Earth
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1. Outline a brief overview of the history of geography as a discipline, and include
important thinkers in the field.
2. Use latitude and longitude to locate places on maps and globes, and to describe
locations to other people so that they can find places on maps and globes. (Includes
WG.1a)
3. Create their own maps with the conscious use of scale, orientation, and projection, and
be able to explain why they used the particular scale, orientation, and projection that they
incorporated into their maps. (Includes WG.1b)
4. Define a “region,” and use GIS to pinpoint and study particular global regions for their
geographical features, resources, and location. (Includes WG.1a, c)
5. Analyze a particular global event (e.g. earthquake in Japan; violence in Syria),
explaining its causes and effects according to
a. Scale
b. Location
c. Place
d. Global connections
6. Create and elaborate upon political, physical and thematic maps to explain one
particular global event. (Includes WG.1d)
Unit 2: Where are we? Where are we going?
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1. Define “population density” and describe various locations’ population densities in
different areas around the globe, offering reasons for why certain densities exist in certain
locations. (Includes WG.5)
2. Define different categories of human population, explain why we categorize populations
according to categories, and create and analyze population pyramids.
3. Describe the ways in which culture, religion, gender equality, politics, and economics all
affect population growth.
4. Explain, in their own words, the contemporary theories about population growth and
decline. (e.g. Demographic Transition Model)
5. Describe the causes and effects of the migration of peoples, and define the categories
of migrating peoples according to the reasons for human movement.
6. Identify various trends in human movement today, and predict the effects of
government policies and regional differences (geographic, cultural) on human movement.
(Includes WG.12a,b; WG.6)
7. Describe the role played by geography, climate, and topography in human migration,
and use them to assess the validity of prevailing theories on population growth and
decline. (Includes WG.5)
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8/31-9/22
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9/22-10/30
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Summative
Assessments
History of the
Discipline
Early Thinkers
Mechanics of the
discipline
GIS and technology
Region
Location
Place
Globalization
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Movement and
Migration
Trends in movement
and migration
Population growth
and decline
Effects of natural
phenomena on
population and
migration
Densities and
Distributions
Population
composition
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World
Geography
Quizzes
“Why
Geography
Matters”
summer
assignment
Unit 1 Test
Migration
quarter project
Unit 2 Test