AP Human Geography Scope & Sequence Grading Period Unit Title or Big AP Standards Learning Targets Assessment Idea Evidence Throughout the The purpose of the AP course in Human Geography is to introduce students to the systematic study of School Year patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice. In-depth concepts to be covered include population, culture, political organization, agriculture and rural land use, industrialization and economic development, and urban geography. This is a college-level course and as such the pace and rigor of the material is very advanced. Students should expect to spend 30 minutes or more each night completing homework, reading, or reviewing notes. First Grading Unit 1: SC 1: This course I. Geography, as a field of inquiry, looks at the world Major Grading Period Summative Assessments Period Introduction to provides a systematic from a spatial perspective. Human Geography study of the nature of ● I can explain the importance of geography as a geography field of study. Multiple Choice Exam ● I can use and interpret geographic models. Unit 1: Nature and Perspective Unit Exam ​ SC 2: The course II. Geography offers a set of concepts, skills, and tools provides a systematic that facilitate critical thinking and problem solving. study of perspectives ● I can analyze changing interconnections among *All Unit Exams are modeled after the College of geography. places. Board AP Human Exam multiple choice section. ● I can interpret patterns and processes at different -Questions are conceptual and application based SC10: The course scales. with the skills indicated in the Unit Learning teaches spatial ● I can use landscape analysis to examine the Targets. ​ relationships at human organization of space. -Students will utilize unit context clues and different scales ● I can define region as a concept, identify world nonlinguistic representations (images, charts, ranging from the regions, and understand regionalization graphs, and symbols to infer meaning of major local to the global. processes. topics. ● I can explain and evaluate the regionalization SC 11: The course process. teaches students how ● I can explain major geographical concepts to use and interpret underlying the geographic perspective. maps. ● I can use concepts such as space, place, and region to examine geographic issues. III. Geographical skills provide a foundation for analyzing world patterns and processes. ● I can use spatial thinking to analyze the human organization of space. ● I can use and interpret maps. IV. Geospatial technologies increase the capability for gathering and analyzing geographic information with applications to everyday life ● I can use quantitative and qualitative geographic data. ● I can use and interpret geospatial data. Unit 2 - Population SC3: The course I. Knowledge of the geographic patterns and Major Grading Period Summative Assessments & Migration provides a systematic characteristics of human populations facilitates study of population understanding of cultural, political, economic, and geography. urban systems Multiple Choice Exam ● I can analyze the distribution of human Unit 2: Population and Migration Unit Exam ​ SC4: The course populations at different scales. provides a systematic ● I can use population density to explain the *All Unit Exams are modeled after the College study of cultural relationship between people and the Board AP Human Exam multiple choice section. patterns and environment.I can analyze population -Questions are conceptual and application based processes. composition. with the skills indicated in the Unit Learning II. Populations grow and decline over time and space. Targets. SC10: The course ● I can explain contemporary and historical trends -Students will utilize unit context clues and teaches spatial in population growth and decline. nonlinguistic representations (images, charts, relationships at ● I can interpret and apply theories of population graphs, and symbols to infer meaning of major different scales growth and decline. topics. ranging from the ● I can evaluate various national and international local to the global. population policies. ● I can analyze reasons for changes in fertility rates Free Response Question Assessment SC12: The course in different parts of the world. Unit 2: Population and Migration ​ teaches spatial ● I can explain the causes and implications of an - Past AP Sample FRQ relationships at aging population. - 2015- Refugees different scales ● I can explain the causes and implications of a ranging from the rapidly growing population. *All in class FRQs are modeled after the College local to the global. III. Causes and consequences of migration are Board AP Human Geography Exam FRQ section. influenced by cultural, demographic, economic, and political factors. -Students will be taught proper response structure ● I can explain how push and pull contribute to in order to demonstrate proficiency in content migration. knowledge while providing relative examples and ● I can apply the concepts of forced and voluntary. ● I can analyze major historical migrations. evidence to support the prompt from unit learning ● I can analyze the cultural, economic, targets. environmental, and political consequences of migration. -Students will be scored using AP Style Rubrics developed by teaching team as well as AP College Board. Unit 3 - Culture & SC 4: The course I. Concepts of culture frame the shared behaviors of a Major Grading Period Summative Assessments Identity provides a systematic society. study of cultural ● I can explain the concept of culture and identify patterns and cultural traits. Multiple Choice Exam processes. Unit 3: Culture and Identity Exam ● I can explain the diffusion of culture and cultural ​ traits through time and space. SC 9: The course *All Unit Exams are modeled after the College ● I can explain how geographers assess the spatial teaches the use of Board AP Human Exam multiple choice section. and place dimensions of cultural groups in the landscape analysis to -Questions are conceptual and application based past and present. examine human with the skills indicated in the Unit Learning ● I can explain how globalization is influencing organization of space. Targets. cultural interactions and change. -Students will utilize unit context clues and nonlinguistic representations (images, charts, II. Culture varies by place and region graphs, and symbols to infer meaning of major ● I can explain the diffusion of culture and cultural topics. traits through time and space. ● I can explain cultural patterns and landscapes as they vary by place and region. Free Response Question Assessments ● I can explain how culture is expressed in Unit 3: Culture and Identity ​ landscapes and how land and resource use - Past Sample FRQ represents cultural identity. - 2003- Cultural Distinctiveness ● I can compare and contrast popular and folk culture and the geographic patterns associated *All in class FRQs are modeled after the College with each. Board AP Human Geography Exam FRQ section. -Students will be taught proper response structure in order to demonstrate proficiency in content knowledge while providing relative examples and evidence to support the prompt from unit learning targets. -Students will be scored using AP Style Rubrics developed by teaching team as well as AP College Board. Second Grading Unit 4: Language SC 4: The course I. Concepts of culture frame the shared behaviors of a Major Grading Period Summative Assessments Period and Religion provides a systematic society. study of cultural ● I can explain the concept of culture and identify patterns and cultural traits. Multiple Choice Exam processes. ● I can explain how globalization is influencing Unit 4: Language and Religion ​ cultural interactions and change. SC 9: The course *All Unit Exams are modeled after the College teaches the use of II. Language varies by place and region Board AP Human Exam multiple choice section. landscape analysis to ● I can explain the diffusion of culture and cultural -Questions are conceptual and application based examine human traits through time and space. with the skills indicated in the Unit Learning organization of space. ● I can explain how interactions between local & Targets. global forces that lead to new forms of cultural -Students will utilize unit context clues and SC 10: The course expression as a result of diffusion from the nonlinguistic representations (images, charts, teaches spatial cultural hearth graphs, and symbols to infer meaning of major relationships at ● I can explain the diffusion of culture and cultural topics. different scales traits through time and space. ranging from the ● I can explain how geographers assess the spatial local to the global. and place dimensions of cultural groups in the Free Response Question Assessments past and present. Unit 4: Language and Religion ​ ● I can explain cultural patterns and landscapes as - Past Sample FRQ they vary by place and region. - 2002 Religion Shaping Cultural Landscapes III. Religion varies by place and region ● I can explain how geographers assess the spatial *All in class FRQs are modeled after the College and place dimensions of cultural groups in the Board AP Human Geography Exam FRQ section. past and present. ● I can