Day 1: 6/21
Morning Session: 4 hours
● Introductions
● 3,2,1 (5×7 cards)
CollegeBoard Diversity and Inclusion (1)
● Paul Gray: Just Ask ‘Em!
● Using Data from PSAT/PSAT8 with AP Potential
CollegeBoard Course and Exam Description (1)
● What’s the Big Idea? APHG Course Content: Big Ideas, Unit Guides and Topics
● Course Skills Overview (pg. 14 CED)
● “Special” skills: 1.E, 2.E, 3.F. 4.F, 5.D
● Connecting Content Units, Topics, Course Skills to the APHG Exam (pg. 157-158 CED)
● Task Verbs Used in Free-Response Question Prompts (pg. 159 CED)
○ New FRQ format (7 points, no stimulus, one stimulus, two stimuli)
● Unit 1: Thinking Geographically At a Glance, Sample Instructional Activities, Unit 1 Planning
○ My Mental Map, Geoguessr.com
Lunch
Afternoon Session: 3 hours
● Course Audit (visit collegeboard.org/apcourseaudit for details)
● Deep Dive into the Course Skills (pg. 143 CED)
● Review textbooks, instructional materials, etc. (link on pg. 135 CED)
● Reflection: Current event/skills alignment. How will the course skills be applicable to your students as they learn content? Think about a lesson you might use for Unit 1 based on any one content topic in the CED, matched to a skill. (Describe your lesson Morning Day 2)
Day 2: 6/22
Morning Session: 4 hours
● Participants present lesson ideas
CollegeBoard Course Planning (1)
● Year-Long Planning: Begin with the End in Mind
● Use the CED to Know What to Teach and Use Your Textbook to Learn What You Are Teaching
CollegeBoard Strategies and Pedagogical Tools (3)
● Review Instructional Strategies (pg. 139 CED)
● Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes At a Glance, Sample Instructional Activities, Unit 2 Planning
○ Baby-O-Matic, Earth: the Apple of our Eye, ESRI GeoInquiries, Power of the Pyramids, My Population Number, On the Way to School
● Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes At a Glance, Sample Instructional Activities, Unit 3 Planning
○ Body Ritual of the Nacirema, Great Big Story: Korean Baseball Organization Bat Flips, Anglophenia: “How to Pronounce UK Place names”, Posting Cultural Traits on Padlet
Lunch: 12:45-1:45pm
Afternoon Session: 3 Hours
● Walking Tour TBA
● Gapminder.org “Don’t Panic! The Truth About Population”
● Select a GeoInquiry targeting a topic in either Unit 2 or Unit 3 from the list at:
[https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/education/schools/geoinquiries-human-geography]
to complete. (Share what you learned Morning Day 3)
● Develop a Key Term List using vocabulary from the CED for either Unit 2 or Unit 3
● Reflection: Backwards Design using 2022-2023 School Calendar. How will you plan to fit everything in??
Day 3: 6/23
Morning Session: 4 Hours
● Participants share ESRI GeoInquiry takeaways
CollegeBoard AP Classroom & AP Daily (2)
● Unit Guides, Topic Questions, AP Daily, MCQ and FRQ Personal Progress Checks, Progress Dashboard, Question Bank
● Unit 4: Political Patterns and Processes At a Glance, Sample Instructional Activities, Unit 4 Planning
○ Seterra Online, VOX Borders Series, Foil, Arms and Hog: “Brexit Divorce”
● Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land Use Patterns and Processes At a Glance, Sample Instructional Activities, Unit 5 Planning
○ Where is My Milk From?? Grocery Store Fieldwork (imported and domestic equivalents posted on Padlet), “America Revealed: Food Machine”
Lunch
Afternoon Session: 3 Hours
● Explore AP Classroom/AP Daily on your own or with a partner (report back to group Morning Day 4)
● Unit Planning using 2022-2023 School Calendar
● Reflection: How will the online tools of AP Classroom and AP Daily impact my teaching??
Day 4: 6/24
Morning Session: 4 Hours
● Participants share ideas for implementing AP Classroom/AP Daily online tools into their own classrooms
CollegeBoard Assess and Reflect (2)
● 2022 Released FRQ Questions and Student Responses
● 2022 APHG Reading Chief Reader Reflections (Lisa Benton-Short)
● Instructional Planning Report review
● Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land Use Patterns and Processes At a Glance, Sample Instructional Activities, Unit 6 Planning
○ Walking Tours (maybe in Google Street View), Gentrification?, Food Deserts??, Central Place Theory Analysis
● Unit 7: Industry and Economic Development Patterns and Processes At a Glance, Sample Instructional Activities, Unit 7 Planning
○ Where are you Wearing??, “Don’t Panic: End Poverty”, @gapminder.org: Dollar Street and https://www.gapminder.org/tests/, VIN investigation: Map where was your car manufactured??
● AP Exam Review (Big Ideas, iScore5, Fiveable)
● AP Reading Recruitment (collegeboard.org/apreading)
Lunch
Afternoon Session: 3 Hours
● Create your own FRQ prompt using any topics from units (2-5) and targeting seven skills of increasing difficulty
● Materials Exchange
● Become a member of NCGE
● Q/A time
● Reflection: Participants complete APSI Consultant Evaluations
Roundup and Dismissal
