AP Human Geography

GeoInquiries are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based concepts found in commonly used textbooks. All that is required is an internet connection for educators and students to access and interact with web maps; no login is required unless students wish to save their work. Over a dozen Geoinquiries for AP Human Geography have been developed so far, to explore a range of topics, listed below.

Geoinquries can also be "localized" for students using web maps from the Wyoming Student Atlas. A recent study has shown that the capability for a student to zoom in on a map and explore familiar, local context (such as their state or even their town) and then zoom out to explore larger contexts at a regional or global scale provides an advantage in engaging the student with specific themes. 

ESRI Geoinquiry™ activities which can be used "as is" or customized to your specific lesson plan or localized with web maps from the Wyoming Student Atlas.

Unit 1: Nature and It’s Perspectives

• Distance and scale. See how to add Wyoming maps to this activity. 
• Slowing malaria 
• Remote Sensing

Unit 2: Population & Migration

• World Population. See how to add Wyoming maps to this activity. 
• USA demographics
• Migration, on the move
• Population dynamics
• Your Huddled Masses (Government)

Unit 3: Cultural Patterns & Processes

• You claim it, you name it! (Toponyms) 
• Language and religion 
• Sacred place, sacred space
• Language and religion – The diffusion of Islam 
• The Great Exchange (U.S. History)

Unit 4: Political Organization of Space

• Borders, boundaries and barriers
• What is a Gerrymander  (Government)
• Who Has Your Vote  (Government)
• Africa’s bounty and borders  (World History)

Unit 5: Agriculture, Foodways, & Rural Land Use

• Farming and the rural landscape
• Agricultural patterns. See how to add Wyoming maps to this activity 

Unit 6: Industrialization & Economic Development

• Understanding globalization 
• The human development index 
• Comparing country development
• What’s the range? (market areas for specific chain stores)
• Tropical Deforestation
• Primary productivity
• Altered biomes 
• Resource consumption and wealth
• Foreign Aid 
• Where Does Foreign Aid Go
• Steel and the birth of a city (natural resources)
• Steel City: Coal Power
• The first European Industrial Revolution

Unit 7: Cities & Urban Land Use

• Urban areas and edge cities 
• Megacities

Please contact Margo Berendsen (mberends@uwyo.edu) if you would like to see additional geoinquiries localized for Wyoming!