UNIT 1 LESSON 3

THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO…

Understand Geography as a Field of Inquiry (Topic Outline I.A)

Begin Looking at the Major Geographical Concepts Underlying the Geographical Perspective (Topic Outline I.B) Topic Outline Refers to College Board AP Human Geography Outline: http://

media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-human-geography-course-description.pdf

DISCLAIMER…

Parts of this presentation were taken from presentations by David Palmer and www.vhstigers.org

FIVE FUNDAMENTAL THEMES… (GETIS P.18)

Location: Relative & Absolute Position on Earth’s SurfacePlace: The distinctive & distinguishing physical and human characteristics of locations

Relationships within the places: The Development & Consequences of Human-environmental interactions

Movement: Patterns & Changes Regions: How they form and change

WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?

Emmanuel Kant: “History looks at change across time. Geography looks at change across space.”

Human Geography: Focuses on people: where they are, what they are like, how they interact over space, and what kinds of imprints they leave on the natural landscape.

Draws from the other social sciences: economics, political science, sociology, history.

Helps us understand the world and appreciate the circumstances affecting people, both in our country and beyond.

BEGIN THINKING ABOUT GEOGRAPHIC LEVELS

Level 1 - What? Where? When? Scale?Level 2 - Pattern IdentificationLevel 3

Why there? How did it get there?

Level 4 (prediction)So what? What if?

Impacts? Effects?

LVL. 1 WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, & SCALE

LVL. 2 PATTERN IDENTIFICATION…..

LVL. 3 WHY THERE & HOW DID IT GET THERE?

LVL. 4 SO WHAT? WHAT IF…? IMPACTS?

SCALE CHANGES PERSPECTIVE

If a map depicts a small territory it is large scale.

This maps depiction is smaller than the world map, so it is larger scaled than the 1st map.

SCALE…

The larger the scale, the small the area, but the greater the detail. Small scale =‘s less detailLarge scale =‘s more detail Can change our perspectives