Human Geography for the AP® Course

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Publication Date: January 18, 2021

Hardcover ISBN: 9781319192242

Pages: 848

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Module 0: An Introduction to Human Geography

Unit 1: Thinking Geographically
Module 1: Introduction to Maps
Module 2: Geographic Data
Module 3: Spatial Concepts and Types of Diffusion
Module 4: Human-Environmental Interaction
Module 5: Scales of Analysis
Module 6: Regional Analysis

Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
Module 7: Population Distribution and Its Consequences
Module 8: Population Composition
Module 9: Population Dynamics
Module 10: The Demographic Transition Model
Module 11: Malthusian Theory
Module 12: Population Policies
Module 13: Women and Demographic Change
Module 14: Aging Populations
Module 15: Causes of Migration
Module 16: Forced and Voluntary Migration
Module 17: Effects of Migration

Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes
Module 18: Introduction to Culture
Module 19: Cultural Landscapes
Module 20: Cultural Patterns
Module 21: Types of Diffusion and Their Historical Causes
Module 22: Contemporary Causes of Diffusion
Module 23: Diffusion of Language and Religion
Module 24: Effects of Diffusion

Unit 4: Political Patterns and Processes
Module 25: Introduction to Political Geography
Module 26: Political Geography
Module 27: Political Power and Territoriality
Module 28: Types and Functions of Political Boundaries
Module 29: Internal Political Boundaries
Module 30: Forms of Governance
Module 31: Challenges to State Sovereignty:
Devolution and Supranationalism
Module 32: Consequences of Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces

Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
Module 33: Introduction to Agriculture
Module 34: Settlement Patterns and Survey Methods
Module 35: Agriculture Origins and Diffusions
Module 36: The Second Agricultural Revolution
Module 37: The Green Revolution
Module 38: Agricultural Practices and Economic Forces
Module 39: The Von Thunen Model
Module 40: The Global System of Agriculture
Module 41: Consequences of Agricultural Practices
Module 42: Challenges of Contemporary Agriculture
Module 43: Women in Agriculture

Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes
Module 44: The Origin and Influences of Urbanization
Module 45: Cities Across the World
Module 46: Cities and Globalization
Module 47: The Size and Distribution of Cities
Module 48: The Internal Structure of Cities
Module 49: Density, Land Use, and Infrastructure
Module 50: Urban Sustainability
Module 51: Challenges of Urban Changes
Module 52: Challenges of Urban Sustainability

Unit 7: Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes
Module 53: The Industrial Revolution
Module 54: Economic Sectors and Patterns
Module 55: Theories and Measures of Development
Module 56: Women and Economic Development
Module 57: Trade and the World Economy
Module 58: Changes as a Result of the World Economy
Module 59: Sustainable Development

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A friendly and approachable tone with real-world examples to engage your students at the appropriate level.

An easy-to-use modular organization that pulls together content and AP® Exam practice into brief 1- to 2-day lessons.

Interwoven instructional data analysis that helps your students engage with and interpret data from maps, graphs, and charts.

Discussion-based explorations of the geographical patterns and trends found in photos.

Opportunities to think critically about all sides of an issue when investigating current controversies in Human Geography.

AP® Exam Tips to help students prepare for the Exam and avoid potential pitfalls.

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WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE STUDENT EDITION
"The book is reasonably compact and is well written."
–Billy Goodman, Passaic Valley High School, NJ

"I love the fact that we finally have a textbook that follows the CED. I have found that many of the real life examples are blended right into the pages and it flows very well. This is a great book for freshmen. Love how the vocabulary is located right there within the page."
–Dana Evans, Reagan High School, TX

"I like the real life samples for the students to see the application of vocabulary and key concepts. Many times they understand the definition, but need examples that show how things are applied for better comprehension."
–Jeffrey Begeal, Harding University High School, NC

"I think that the content is very comprehensive and the writing is very clear and at the correct level for the students that we teach. It also has excellent visuals such as large maps and photos to analyze. The AP® practice questions both multiple choice and FRQ are excellent for both teachers and students."
–Morgan Patel, Montgomery Blair High School, MD

"[The book is] concise and clear enough to be accessible to students, but extensive and deep enough to cover completely the content required to prepare them for the exam…. I enjoyed reading the text and I think my students would too."
–Matthew Ence, American Preparatory Academy, UT

“...I now have the Barbara Hildebrant, Ken Keller and Max Lu authored text, Human Geography for the AP Course, with the TE written by Kelly Swanson. [Im] never, ever going to use anything else. Not only is the text fully aligned to the CED but it has lots of MCQ and FRQs within each module. Additiona lresources are awesome as well. While I teach seniors, the text is very accessible for 9th graders.”
-Kim Howard Schiller, AP® Human Geography Table Leader, American Geographical Society Teacher Fellow, The International School of Minnesota

"I have been teaching AP Human Geography for 18 years. This is, by far, the best resource I have come across."
–Jim Huston, Bloomer High School, WI

WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE TEACHER’S EDITION
"The Teacher’s Edition is a one-stop shop for teaching AP® Human Geography. You don’t need to carry around the CED binder and other supplemental texts because everything you need to effectively plan for the course is in this Teacher’s Edition. It is obvious that it was written by an experienced AP® Human Geography teacher."
–Josie Perry, Rising Sun High School, MD

"I love the suggested pacing guide and examples."
–Carol Ward, Windsor High School, CO

"As an experienced reader, I love “Kelly’s Corner” and think that it will help more teachers see the value of attending the reading. I also really like the bellringers. They seem low-prep for teachers and highly engaging for students."
–Laura Kmetz, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts, TX

"ALL. THE. RESOURCES. I can’t emphasize that enough. Mr. Swanson’s done an exceptional job pulling together resources and planning tools to make my job much easier. I have 5 preps; I don’t have time to scour the internet for myriad ideas/lessons/videos to augment the lessons. He’s pulled it altogether [sic]."
–Kimberly Schiller, The International School of Minnesota, MN

"The breadth of AP® Human can be intimidating for new teachers and challenging to get through for anyone. The features here can support teachers in their weakest areas and help them streamline their favorites."
–Rachel McLemore, Mount St. Mary Academy, AR

"…the Teacher’s Edition would streamline the planning and creating of lessons to better teach content, make connections throughout the course. The skill building sections placed in the content areas will also help in planning and creating so that it’s very easy to include skill learning while delivering content. I also very much appreciate the Challenging Content sections because sometimes it’s difficult to know what students are/will struggle with."
–Emily Jackson, Georgetown High School, TX

Barbara Hildebrant

Barbara S. Hildebrant received her Ph.D. in geography from Rutgers University. Barbara started her career at ETS in 1999 as an Assessment Specialist responsible for the launch of AP® Human Geography. She continued on to serve as the Senior Assessment Director for AP® Human Geography at ETS until her retirement in 2019. During her 20-year career with ETS, she served in myriad roles with countless responsibilities, but her first love and priority was AP® Human Geography. Barbara also led Development Committees, assisted Chief Readers at the annual Readings, reviewed and approved test questions, and met regularly with College Board representatives to ensure the AP® Human Geography exam met their rigorous standards. Prior to joining ETS, Barbara taught geography and anthropology at Rutgers University and Raritan Valley Community College.
Barbara has organized annual professional development workshops for AP® teachers through her work with NCGE, where she currently serves on the Board of Directors. She has presented papers at professional organizations around the world, and has published peer reviewed articles on AP® Human Geography for numerous publications. For her dedication to AP® Human Geography, Barbara received the Gilbert Grosvenor Honors for Geography Education from AAG in 2008, and in 2015 was honored with the George J. Miller Award for Distinguished Service to Geographic Education from NCGE. Barbara is a proud Mom to her two sons, Theodore and Charles. She enjoys world travel with her husband, Regan Vercruysse and taking her two English Springer Spaniels, Téo and Tessa, for long walks.

Max Lu

Max Lu has been involved in AP® Human Geography for almost 20 years. He went to his first reading in 2003, the third year after the AP® Human Geography course was created. Since then he has gone to the reading almost every year, filling roles as a reader, table reader, and question leader. From 2007 to 2015, Max served on the College Board’s AP® Human Geography Test Development Committee and was co-chair for the final three years of his service. As a College Board-certified consultant, he has taught AP® Human Geography workshops and summer institutes around the country since 2007. Max received his BS and Master’s degrees in China and his doctoral degree from Indiana University. He is currently a professor in the Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences at Kansas State University. His research has dealt with such topics as population migration, rural population change, regional inequality, and the geography of methamphetamine labs. An interesting fact about his life as a geographer is that in the last 30 plus years, Max has lived at about 40°N in latitude in three different places: 6 years in Beijing, 6 years in Bloomington, Indiana, and then Manhattan, Kansas where he currently lives and teaches!

Kenneth Keller

Kenneth H. Keller is an AP® Human Geography teacher at George Walton Comprehensive High School in Marietta, GA, and has been teaching the course since its inception in 2000. Ken has attended every AP® Human Geography reading since 2002, where he’s worked in multiple capacities, including his current role as question leader. He has taught AP® Human Geography weeklong summer institutes and one-day workshops for teachers since 2004, and was the 2004 recipient of a National Council for Geographic Education Distinguished Teaching award. Ken also taught as an adjunct professor of Geography for five years at Western Connecticut State University. He is a past member of the AP® Human Geography Test Development Committee (2006-2010) and served as President of the National Council for Geographic Education during the year 2019-2020. He is also Past-President of the Connecticut Council of Social Studies where he worked to promote social studies education at the state level. Ken is one of three co-founders of iScore5 LLC, an AP® test prep app for smart devices. Ken and his wife, Lisa, moved from Danbury, CT to Georgia in 2013, and though they prefer the beautiful Georgia weather, they brought their New Yorker roots (and Mets caps) with them.

Roderick P. Neumann

Roderick P. Neumann is a professor of geography in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the complex interactions of culture and nature through a specific focus on national parks and natural resources. In his research, he combines the analytical tools of cultural and political ecology with landscape studies. He has pursued these investigations through historical and ethnographic research mostly in East Africa, with some comparative work in North America and Central America. His current research explores interwoven narratives of nature, landscape, and identity in the European Union, with a particular emphasis on Spain. His scholarly books include Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihoods and Nature Preservation in Africa (1998), Making Political Ecology (2005), and The Commercialization of Non-Timber Forest Products (2000), the latter coauthored with Eric Hirsch.

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