Every year, I assign my students countries to investigate as the school year progresses, 7 to be exact. These countries range in region and levels of development. At least once […]
Read MoreLESSONS & WORKSHEETS: A Geopolitical Valentine Poem
From Russia with Love Because apparently I couldn’t get enough holidays, I am already prepping for Valentine’s Day. Depending on what unit you’re in around February 14th, you might want […]
Read MoreLessons & Worksheets: Best Locations for a Proposed Golf Resort
Update: Fixed broken QR Code. 9/15/18 6:02am If you’re eager to show your students how GIS is applied to real jobs and the real world, this is a great story […]
Read MoreReview: ESRI’s GeoInquiries on NatGeo’s MapMaker 4.0 Platform
If you are a friend of ESRI’s GeoInquiries, this might be for you, as things have changed. If you do not know what they are, they are worth investigating. WHAT […]
Read MoreMy 2024 APHG Recruiting Campaign
Tomorrow begins my 2024-2025 recruiting campaign, where I will jump into all of the freshman social studies classes and try to sell them the best course in high school. In […]
Read MoreLessons & Wksts: The Values of Location and Place
Purpose This lesson aims to help students understand the differences between geographic LOCATION and PLACE. If you’ve been trained in geography or have an old textbook laying around, you probably […]
Read MoreLessons & Wksts: The Need for S.P.E.E.D.S. – A Parking Lot Observation
SOCIAL~POLITICAL~ECONOMIC~ENVIRONMENTAL~DEMOGRAPHIC~SPATIAL 🌎 The original inspiration for this introductory activity is credited to Zach Taylor from the AP Human Geography Teachers Facebook page. The link to the original post is HERE. The […]
Read MoreLESSONS & WKSTS: Mental Mapping a Sense of Place
*MENTAL MAPS* *SENSE OF PLACE* *TRAVEL NARRATIVE* *RELATIVE LOCATION* *FLOW LINES* *ACTIVITY SPACE* This enrichment activity aims to have students apply multiple concepts across the course, particularly Unit 1. By […]
Read More2023 AP Human Geography FRQ Collaborative Rubric
Here it is! The 2023 collaborative rubric for the publicly released FRQ questions. If your students want to debrief the questions when they are released, here are some documents that […]
Read MoreGoogle Doodles: Marie Tharp
Today’s Google Doodle is on Marie Tharp, American cartographer of the Atlantic Ocean floor. It is a great short for the start of class. APHG CED Topics 1.2, Topics 1.3 […]
Read MoreINTERACTIVE: College Board’s World Regions on WordWall.net
Wordwall.net was one of those web-based apps I picked up during remote learning and is worthy of keeping around. These are web-based, drag-and-drop games that you create and can be […]
Read MoreA Personal Audit: Course Skills
After this past school year, the only thing that I want to do is look forward. Over the last few years I’ve tripped, fallen, and made some bad mistakes. But […]
Read More2022 AP Human Geography FRQ Collaborative Rubric
Here it is! The 2022 collaborative rubric for the publicly released FRQ questions. My students always want to debrief so we spend some time brainstorming together. Project the teacher version […]
Read MoreLesson Plan: Causes of Migration – Topic 2.10
Today I introduced new content while reinforcing old skills (I love it when that happens). To begin Topic 2.10: Causes of Migration, I had students turn their interactive notebooks horizontally […]
Read MoreLesson Plan: 3rd World Farmer Simulation
A recent tip from an experienced HuGe teacher Brian C. led me to 3rd World Farmer, an agriculture video game simulation. While this game was not likely created by anyone […]
Read MoreProfessional Development: Geography’s History and Scope
If you are looking for a greater understanding of the development of geography as an academic practice, I came across a playlist of lectures that I am very impressed with. […]
Read MoreProfessional Development: Explain the Strengths, Weaknesses, and Limitations of New Urbanism
I’m in a Gentrification & Urban Redevelopment Facebook group and an individual posted a list of sources that are critical of New Urbanism. They are good, and most of them […]
Read MoreProfessional Development: APHG Reader’s Commentary on the 2021 FRQ Exam
A day after the 2021 AP Human Geography reading ended, I solicited advice from bleary-eyed readers about their observations. I was looking for feedback on where and how a script […]
Read MoreProfessional Development: Did You Know that Heat maps aren’t Hot-Spot maps? I didn’t.
I was watching a video about spatial statistics this week and I learned that the beloved heat map is not the same thing as a hotspot map. I don’t expect […]
Read More2021 AP Human Geography FRQ Collaborative Rubric
Here it is! The 2021 collaborative rubric for the publicly released FRQ questions. My students always want to debrief so we spend some time brainstorming together. Project the teacher version […]
Read MoreWordwall Formative Assessment Games
Unit 1: Thinking Geographically Map Type Conveyor Belt Game S.P.E.E.D. Categorizations Drag and Drop Sorting Game World Regions Designations: A Closer Look World Regions Designations: The Big Picture Unit 2: […]
Read MorePROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
I was listening to a recent interviewee for an incoming department chair position when the teacher referenced Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. I had seen it on the […]
Read MoreMC QUESTIONS: Volume 2 Edition 2
The challenge: to write 7 questions per week that connect current events to course content. This week’s questions include topics from: The Indonesia earthquake Racial and Ethnic Demographic data in […]
Read MoreVIDEOS & LESSONS: C-Span Classroom by APHG Unit
Monday morning? No lesson plan? Try C-Span Classroom . What a mini gold mine this resource is! I had no idea C-Span Classroom existed until Julie W. posted it onto […]
Read MoreVIDEO: Sovereignty Explained via World101
Youtube: Understand the principle that has underpinned world order for the past four hundred years. To learn more about sovereignty visit their Building Blocks module: https://bit.ly/31IW39v
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