This concise and accessible text is structured and written to follow the current AP Course and Exam Description. Examine how human behavior transforms the earth's surface in response to changing social, cultural, and political needs in short, focused sections. The text covers all topic areas for the AP Human Geography course and examines current events and key theoretical areas such as environmental determinism and psychogeography. A Teacher Resource is available only to teachers and with a school purchase order by contacting your Sales Consultant.
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Explore how people have shaped the earth!
Topical organization—68 topics aligned directly to the College Board framework.
Within each of the seven course units, the content, topics, big ideas, enduring understandings, learning objectives, and essential knowledge focus on developing the essential skills of geographers for AP® exam and college success.
Each topic includes —an Essential Question. —Key Terms. —a narrative aligned to the course framework.
Each chapter includes —Learning Objectives from the CED. —seven multiple-choice questions. —one free-response question.
Each unit includes —an Enduring Understanding. —an Applying Geographic Skills feature that provides students opportunities to use the skills they have learned while they review key content.
Special features include —Think as a Geographer—topic activities develop methods and course skills (concepts and processes, spatial relationships, data analysis, source analysis, and scale analysis). —Write as a Geographer—unit activities build writing skills for answering free-response questions needed for the AP® exam. —Geographic Perspectives—unit activities develop enduring understandings of big ideas (patterns and spatial organization, impacts and interactions, and spatial processes and societal change).
A separate Teacher Resource includes an answer key; correlations to the CED; and reproducible activity pages that cover topics such as justice and race.
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David Palmer
For over 20 years, David Palmer has taught social studies at Eaglecrest High School in the Cherry Creek, Colorado, School District and currently teaches world geography and AP® Human Geography. He is a Colorado Geographic Alliance teacher consultant, College Board® consultant, 2012 NCGE Distinguished Geography Teacher award winner and a table leader, reader, and test item creator for the AP® Human Geography Exam. David has taught and presented at numerous institutes and conferences and has traveled to India and Japan to develop case studies for the AAG’s Center for Global Geography Education.
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T4038-G
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Perfection Learning Editors
Grade Level
9-12
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PLC
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AP Human Geography
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Advanced Placement®—Social Studies
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AP Human Geography is widely recommended as an introductory-level AP course. Students tend to regard the course content as "easy," while the exam is difficult. Historically, the majority of students earn the lowest possible score on this exam.
For the 2023 AP® exam season, about half (54.4%) of the students who took the AP® Human Geography exam passed with a 3 or better. The mean score for the AP® HG exam was 2.75. The statistics included above are based on the number of students who take the AP® Human Geography exam each year.
In AP® Human Geography, unit 2 covers population & migrations. The following guide will be updated periodically with hyperlinks to excellent resources. As you are reviewing for this unit, focus on the key concepts!
And like all AP courses, AP Human Geography can help you stand out during the college application process and gives you the opportunity to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both.
Okay, Seriously, Which AP Classes Are the Hardest? United States History, Biology, English Literature, Calculus BC, Physics C, and Chemistry are often named as the hardest AP classes and tests. These classes have large curriculums, tough tests, and conceptually difficult material.
Usually, a 70 to 75 percent out of 100 translates to a 5. However, there are some exams that are exceptions to this rule of thumb. The AP Grades that are reported to students, high schools, colleges, and universities in July are on AP's five-point scale: 5: Extremely well qualified.
AP Human Geography students demonstrated especially strong mastery of the core skills of the course from Unit 1 (19% earned perfect scores on that unit), and on Industrial / Economic Development (Unit 7) questions (11% earned perfect scores on that unit).
AP test scores are indeed "curved," but it's more accurate to call it a "scaling process." Instead of a traditional curve that compares your performance to other students' performance, the AP exam scaling process converts your raw score (the number of points you earned through multiple-choice questions and free- ...
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Is AP Human Geography Easy Or Hard? AP Geography is considered quite easy, with class alumnae rating it 4.3/10 for overall difficulty (the 24th-most-difficult out of the 28 large AP classes surveyed). The pass rate is lower than other AP classes, with 54% graduating with a 3 or higher.
What happens if you fail the AP Human Geography exam? Failing the AP Human Geography exam does not have a direct impact on your high school grade point average (GPA). Your academic year's curriculum will determine your GPA. Your AP exam score has no bearing on your overall course grade.
But we did a bit of digging on Reddit in r/APStudents and found that students frequently mentioned the following AP classes and exams as being the easiest: AP Computer Science Principles. AP English Language. AP Environmental Sciences.
The course is generally considered less challenging than AP World History and aligned more towards the social sciences fields like anthropology, geography, regional planning, etc. On the other hand, AP World History analyzes historical events and processes from 1200 CE to the present day.
However, we can look at test score data to determine the easiest AP classes. Based solely on these test scores, the easiest AP class is AP Drawing. AP Drawing does not have a formal exam, like other AP classes. It has a portfolio requirement that students submit at the end of the academic year.
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