What role has tourism played in changing the landscape of a country? How do human migration patterns affect a nation? To what extent can urban development patterns help us understand our cities? Learners explore these ideas and more using authentic College Board materials that help them prepare for their own exams. 

Concepts

test preparation, urban development, urbanization, human migration, tourism, regions

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Offer all or part of the assessment to prepare for the College Board exam
• Use one of the test items as a warm-up activity to introduce new information 

Classroom Considerations

• The questions are from the free-response section of the 2003 AP®  Human Geography examination

Pros

• Questions include practice interpreting maps and other social studies skills
• Prompts are easy to adapt to a variety of classroom activities
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.10