Why do countries create boundaries? Scholars explore similar ideas using prompts from the 2012 AP Human Geography test. Pupils also test their acumen with questions on agriculture and the growth of Islam. 

Concepts

local agriculture, farming, boundaries, test preparation, islam, the spread of islam

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Offer one or both questions as practice for the AP exam
• Have learners discuss one or both questions in groups to develop content knowledge

Classroom Considerations

• Contains the free-response questions from the 2012 AP Human Geography exam

Pros

• Questions are easy to adapt to classroom use
• Guidelines and examples make scoring and teacher feedback easy to give

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