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LESSONS & WKSTS: Mental Mapping a Sense of Place

August 10, 2023 0 comments

*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 […]

A Personal Audit: Course Skills

June 21, 2022 0 comments

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 […]

2021 AP Human Geography FRQ Collaborative Rubric

May 6, 2021 0 comments

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 […]

Wordwall Formative Assessment Games

February 2, 2021 0 comments

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: […]

EXAM PREP: FRQ Generator Activity

April 24, 2020 0 comments

After my students responded to a TON of FRQs in preparation for their big exam day, I’ve decided to change things up and have them jump into the minds of […]

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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Border Disputes with Vox Border Series

December 4, 2019 0 comments

I can’t think of anything more attention grabbing than the Vox Borders series to tug your student’s interest about geopolitical border disputes. Students will use the QR code to direct […]

LESSON PLAN: Mapping Hoteling and Lösch – A Competition

March 15, 2019 1 comment

OBJECTIVE: Students will show competency of Losch and Hoteling’s agglomeration models using their respective local geographies. MATERIALS: Tablets or computers to access Google My Maps; or two paper maps of […]

LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: State of the Union Bingo 2018

January 31, 2018 0 comments

A colleague brought in a State of the Union BINGO this morning, but it had options for “standing up and clapping”, “interrupted boos”, etc. So I edited the document and […]

Illustrated Textbook: Location-Contemporary Cartography

August 25, 2017 0 comments

Find out why early maps looked so funky, about the art of CARTOGRAPHY (or is it a science?), and how thousands of Google cars, with the help of GPS, are […]

Illustrated Textbook: The Importance of the Spatial Perspective

August 7, 2017 0 comments

Alright! This is what all of you John Snow geeks have been waiting for. Oh, you thought I was talking about Game of Thrones!… …No no…. Dr. John Snow of […]

Course Articulation Crowdsourced Question Bank

July 6, 2017 0 comments

I would like to revive the effort to create a crowdsourced question bank based off of the current AP Human course articulation (2015 edition). We started this two years ago […]

Illustrated Textbook: Defining a Region

May 17, 2017 0 comments

Holy busy month Batman… I have no idea how I am plowing through all of the end of the year ceremonies, retirement parties, and-oh yeah-teaching. I was finally able to […]

REVIEW: iScore5

April 13, 2017 0 comments

This just downloaded! iScore5 is a great way to beef up your AP Human Geography review game before the big day. There is no better way to study than to […]

WEBCOMIC: Human Geography in Practice-Collecting the Data

April 1, 2017 0 comments

These pages address the marriage of the humanities and the sciences, and how we get and use data. Vocab includes: Data aggregation, primary data, secondary data, satellite imagery, remote sensing, […]

Official Launch: The Illustrated Textbook

March 30, 2017 0 comments

This has been brewing since 2009, and it would be a lie to say it is all complete. However, I do have a finished script with all of the content researched-I just […]