Advanced Placement^® Edition

Human Geography

Make college level content accessible to all students without sacrificing the rigor required for success

100% aligned to the most current AP^® Human Geography College Board^® CED.
Concise and focused content.
Scaffolded skill development.
High quality primary sources.
AP-style assessment practice.

Each topic includes:

The Essential Question.
A narrative aligned to the course framework.
A reflection/review of the Essential Question.
Seven multiple-choice questions and one stimulus-based free-response question.

Extensive AP exam preparation includes hundreds of AP-style multiple-choice and free-response questions and three full-length practice tests.

All test items have been meticulously constructed to model the format and quality of those on the exam.
Each question is tied to a specific learning objective from the course framework, allowing teachers to quickly diagnose individual and class performance.

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I purchase supplementary resources for courses serving our gifted and high achieving high school students. I’m always interested in materials that will truly help prepare these students for success on the Advanced Placement exams…Several teachers previewed the recently released AMSCO AP Human Geography and AMSCO AP Psychology texts, and they were very impressed with the organization and content.

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High School Gifted Program Facilitator
Effingham County Schools
Guyton, Georgia

Support for College Board Course Audit Approval

Perfection Learning supports your College Board course audit by pairing the AMSCO edition of AP Human Geography with a College Board pre-approved open-source digital text.

The College Board-approved Introduction to Human Geography digital text published by the University of North Georgia has been aligned with the AMSCO Human Geography coursebook from Perfection Learning. The paired text is:

Available at no additional charge.
Listed on the College Board example textbook list as “Introduction to Human Geography. Dahlonega, GA: University of North Georgia.”
Pre-approved for course audit submission.

A FREE pacing guide shows how the AMSCO coursebook and Introduction to Human Geography work together for instruction.

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Think as a Geographer

Topic activities develop methods and course skills (concepts and processes, spatial relationships, data analysis, source analysis, and scale analysis).

Write as a Geographer

Unit activities build writing skills for answering free-response questions needed for the AP exam.

Geographic Perspectives

Unit activities develop enduring understandings of big ideas (patterns and spatial organization, impacts and interactions, and spatial processes and societal change).

Making college-level content accessible to high school students is of the utmost importance in ensuring success. The AP Human Geography coursebook is carefully written and designed to ensure all students:

Comprehend key ideas.
Learn and use concept vocabulary.
Build their analytical and writing skills.

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The AP Human Geography coursebook is built to meet the specific big ideas, enduring understandings, learning objectives, and essential knowledge for each unit. As a result, the depth and breadth of content coverage aligns precisely with the AP Human Geography framework and exam.

AMSCO curriculum builds capacity, without sacrificing rigor, and supports students to develop the content knowledge and skills they need to be successful.

Initial inquiry and essay tasks are designed to be narrow in scope, allowing students to master smaller skills first.
Instruction and tasks to develop disciplinary practices and reasoning skills move from simple to complex as students gain competence.

Digital editions, with built-in Immersive Reader support, enable students to use a wealth of personalized tools to comprehend course content.

Translate and listen to the text in over 120 languages.
Customize readability by changing font type, size, and background color.

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Help students move from skimming and scanning to extracting key concepts, identifying events and developments, and formulating questions for further study. All highlights and notes are captured automatically in a running notebook—perfect for study and exam preparation.

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Develop College Readiness Skills

Students gain the critical “thinking” and “doing” skills required in rigorous college courses through extended practice in:

Evaluating authors’ perspectives.
Analyzing primary and secondary sources.
Citing textual evidence to support arguments.
Developing cohesive written arguments.

Engage students through collaboration.

Participate in dynamic, inclusive small group discussions.
Share ideas and perspectives based on meaningful, text-based questions.

Think as a Geographer activities build students’ skills in geographic reasoning processes such as interpreting maps, understanding networks, recognizing scales of analysis, and defining regions.

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The Geographic Perspectives feature at the end of each chapter focuses on how geographers approach a topic by highlighting the spatial perspective that is distinctive to the field.

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Success on the AP exam requires strong writing skills. The AP Human Geography coursebook features Write as a Geographer activities to help students identify and organize evidence, structure arguments, and achieve successful outcomes on the exam.

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Because the content in the AMSCO books is more accessible, concise, and focused just on what they need to know, students are actually reading the text. As a result, I’ve seen test scores go up.

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Mark G.
Social Studies Department Chair
AP U.S. History, AP World History: Modern, and AP Psychology Teacher
Bradenton, Florida

Extensive Teacher Support

Teacher materials include:

A Teacher Resource with Answer Key. Best-choice answers are identified for each multiple-choice question. Rubrics and suggested good responses are provided for all free-response questions.
Customizable PowerPoint slides.
A day-by-day pacing guide.
Two full-length practice tests with rationales.
A correlation of each question to the College Board framework.
OER resources by topic.

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“

AMSCO has been a godsend to my students. It has made difficult information to learn much more accessible and digestible…my students were able to gain college credit at a high rate. I absolutely recommend textbooks by AMSCO as a valuable tool in the AP classroom.

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Paula W.
CCSD/Advanced Technologies Academy
Las Vegas, Nevada

Advanced Placement^® Edition

Human Geography

Make college level content accessible to all students without sacrificing the rigor required for success

Support for College Board Course Audit Approval