There are a few common ways that Latin America is classified: By Romance language: Any country where the predominant language is a Romance language (a branch of the Indo-European language […]
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Doing Geography: Scales of Analysis using ArcGIS & Poverty Maps
Unit 1: Thinking Geographically 1.6: Scales of Analysis: Geographers analyze relationships among and between places to reveal important spatial patterns. If you’re looking for a lesson plan or activity to […]
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Not Easily Sold: One Human’s Evaluation of Using Class Companion’s A.I. to Score FRQs
Class Companion is the hot new gizmo that will likely blast some of your PD time during your start-of-the-year teacher institutes. Basically, Class Companion claims to accurately score your students’ […]
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The Case for Not Leading with Development in AP Human Geography
Because of our course’s thematic nature, many of us can rearrange the units in any order we choose. I have done this when I need to beat the snow for […]
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Protected: Password Protected: 2024 Collaborative Rubrics
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50 Ways to Use a Blank Political Map
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 […]
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LESSONS & 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 […]
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Lessons & 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 […]
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Review: 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 […]
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My 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 […]
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Lessons & 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 […]
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Lessons & 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 […]
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LESSONS & 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 […]
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2023 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 […]
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Google 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 […]
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INTERACTIVE: 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 […]
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A 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 […]
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2022 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 […]
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Lesson 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 […]
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Lesson 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 […]
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Professional 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. […]
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Professional 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 […]
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Professional 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 […]
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Professional 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 […]
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2021 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 […]
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