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: description.pdf description.pdf

DISCLAIMER…  Parts of this presentation were taken from presentations by David Palmer and

FIVE FUNDAMENTAL THEMES… (GETIS P.18)  Location: Relative & Absolute Position on Earth’s Surface  Place: 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 Identification  Level 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 1 st map.

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