How have railroads influenced urban growth? What are the consequences of population booms? What has led to the growth of tech centers like Silicon Valley? A series of short-answer questions from the College Board explores the dynamics in an AP test that covers people and unique attributes of their communities.

Concepts

labor, capitalism, economics, global population, human population, railroads, transportation, test preparation

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use test items for practice before the exam
• Offer one prompt as a warm-up for class

Classroom Considerations

• Resource consists of the free-response questions from the 2013 AP Human Geography exam

Pros

• Feedback is easy using grading guidelines and rubrics
• Items are easy to adapt to a variety of learning 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