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AP Human Geography Group/Individual Cultural Hearth Project

Meaningful learning takes place when students can relate global situations to their own lives. Therefore, you will complete a multi-media project that addresses human geographic themes in relation to your own family’s history. Groups will consist of students who share the same cultural hearth. You will interview parents, grandparents, and/or other relatives to understand your migratory origins and obtain data on how and why your family eventually settled in the United States. If possible, try to interview someone who is living or has lived in your cultural hearth. Depending on your ancestry and the class demographic make-up, you will either work independently or in groups (limit four). We will allot time for project work each week depending on computer availability. The partial project will be checked and scored periodically. Folders will be due before Winter Break and again one week before Spring Break.

Below are some issues you will need to address. I provide these now so you can think about them and take notes in your journal as we progress through the class. You do not have to address each issue, but you must address 75% of them. Be sure to use plenty of visuals (maps, pictures, videos, etc.) to make your presentation interesting. Construct one piece of artwork to display in classroom or media center. Have at least one presenter dress in the cultural garb of your cultural hearth. The grading rubric is posted on the class web page.  2-3 slides should be sufficient per unit.  A hard copy of the presentation needs to be included with your final product along with a copy of the rubric.

Unit 1: Migration pattern. Sense of place. Spatial perspective. Regional sustainability. Natural landscape. Vernacular region.

Unit 2: Distance. Relative distance. Relative location. Large-scale maps of origin and residence. Thematic maps. Population density of both places. Absolute location. Absolute distance from origin to current residence. Accessibility. Cartogram. Choropleth. Cognitive map (if available. You may have to get this one from a relative.) Complementarity. Connectivity. Contagious diffusion. State latitude and longitude of both places. Friction of distance. Law of retail gravitation. Time-space convergence. Transferability. Site and situation.

Unit 3: Age-sex distribution. Emigration. Migration. Chain migration. Push and pull factors. Forced migration. Internal migration. Intervening obstacles. Immigration. Voluntary migration. Refugees. Life expectancy. Child mortality rate. Crude birth rate. Crude death rate. Maternity mortality rate. Total fertility rate. Demographic accounting equation. Demographic transition model. Dependency ratio. Doubling time. Natural increase rate. Overpopulation. Physiologic density. Infant mortality rate. Population density. Population growth. Population pyramid. Arithmetic density. Carrying capacity. Zero population growth.

Unit 4: Culture. Customs. Cultural complex. Cultural hearth. Cultural traits. Cultural imperialism. Culture change. Transculturation. Folk culture. Pop culture. Diaspora. Language. Dialect. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide. Ethnic neighborhood. Minorities. Official language. Multicultural. Missionary. Ghettoization. Religion. Local religion. Ethnic religion. Evangelical religion. Fundamentalism.

Unit 5: Centrifugal and centripetal forces. Colonialism. Frontier. Nation. Landlocked state. Nationalism. Nation-state. NAFTA effect. NATO effect. OPEC effect. Perforated state. Physical boundaries. Political geography. Prorupted state. Relic boundaries. Sovereignty. Superimposed boundaries. Member of any supranational organizations. Territorial organization. Theocracy. Unitary state.

Unit 6: Core-periphery model. Cottage industries. Gender equity. GDP. GNP. Industrialization. Primary economic activities. Secondary economic activities. Tertiary economic activities. Sustainable development. Productivity. Purchasing Power Parity. Quaternary and quinary economic activities. Regionalization. Rostow’s stages of development. Globalization.

Unit 7: Agriculture. Agribusiness. Dairying. Animal husbandry. Intensive cultivation. Feedlots. Pastoralism. Pesticides. Mechanization. Slash-and-burn agriculture. Urban sprawl. Subsistence. Specialty crops. Topsoil loss. Transhumance. Von Thunen model. Green revolution.

Unit 8: Central business district. Central place theory. Concentric zone model. Colonial city. Inner city decay. Latin American cities. Hinterland. Gentrification. Ghettoization. Segregation. Primate city. Suburbs. World city. Urban revitalization. Urban morphology. Squatter settlements. Metropolitan areas. Multiple nuclei model. Sector model. Modern architecture. Urbanization. Edge city. Gateway city. Colonial city.