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