1. What is Human Geography?
Video: Geography is Key

2. Definitions - Use Cornell
Literal Definition: a description of the earth
Emmanuel Kant: “History looks at change across time. Geography looks at change across space.”
Hartshorn: “Geography is the discipline that seeks to describe and interpret the variable character from place to place of the earth as the world of man.”
Greenland: “Geography is the study of the distribution and interrelationships of the elements of the human environment and the relationships between humans and the physical environment.”
Your Definition:

3. Method vs Perspective
Geographic Method: using geographic information to describe the earth
Geographic Perspective: a geographic grid through which information is interpreted
Example: The Earth at Night

4. Geographic Investigation Process - 4 Level Analysis
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?

5. Earth at Night - Global Scale

6. North America at Night - Regional Scale
Online: 6/27/

7. Your State at Night - Local Scale
Online: 6/27/

8. Geographic Investigation Process
Level 1 - What? Where? When?
Level 2 - Pattern Identification
Level 3
Why there?
How did it get there?
Level 4
So what?
What if?
Impacts? Effects?

9. Goals for the day How do geographers describe where things are?
How do we identify main idea?
Who do you locate places using latitude and longitude?
What type of questions will appear on the AP exam?

10. Day 2 - Thinking Spatially to solve real world problems
26 notebook
Projections video: page 27 NB
Why are we changing maps video? Page 27 NB

11. Chapter 1 Key Issue 1 Quiz- you may use Key Issue Guide - on a notecard
List three tools that geographers use to show where things are?(3 pts)
List the four things that typically become distorted in various projections. (2 pts)
Describe how geospatial technology help to solve problems in Haiti (2 pts)
How can projections promote social inequality? (1 pt)

12. Score your own: answers
Tools: GIS, GPS, Latitude / Longitude, Satellites, Remote Sensing, Maps
Distorted: shape, relative size, distance, direction
Used Twitter (social media), open source mapping, translation, direct aid
When one country is shown larger in relative size to another – ideas of more powerful or weaker arise.
Turn to page 16 – Write out test corrections on page- see table of contents
Turn in Quiz and Key Issue #1+ Summer Fall Assignment if completed.