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My name is Matt Wahl and I am a second year teacher at Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville, Illinois. I originally started using Scoop.it as a place to save articles that I found for AP human geography since my favorites bar was getting too full. I would like to thank everyone for posting articles that I have “scooped” for my class. As a first-year teacher in an AP class last year that was an iPad pilot, I would have been lost without this website. I am on Twitter @dcaphug and I use a PBWorks wiki for my class (mwahl145.pbworks.com). Feel free to use whatever you want.
Gleaming high-tech cities are being planned across Africa. Some say they are unrealistic, others say they are the future.
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Do Norwegians feel curiously at home in Chile, and vice versa? Do South Africans have a strange affinity with Italians? And Filipinos with Maldivians?
Africa may have achieved independence, but the old colonial ties are still important as France’s decision to send troops to Mali to fight Islamist extremists shows.
Via Seth Dixon
"Germany and France spent decades at each others' throats. Now, bound by a common currency, they're working together to save the euro zone. It's a story that's begging for a musical number — which, as it happens, we have right here."
Via Seth Dixon
Decades of war, migration and chaotic sprawl have turned the Afghan capital into a barely functioning dust bowl. The city's tired infrastructure is crumbling; water, sewers and electricity are in short supply. Keeping an urban system running smoothly is a difficult proposition in developed countries that are stable--what is in like a place like Afghanistan? This podcast is a excellent glimpse into the cultural, economic, environmental and political struggles of a city like Kabul. This is urban geography in about a problematic a situation as possible.
Via Seth Dixon
In a multi-layered, Foxconn-sprinkled update on its working conditions in Chinese factories, Apple has released a report that claims to have found no underage workers in "any of our final assembly suppliers." But Apple's supply chain goes much...
How to foster geographic empathy in the classroom discussion about development? Here's one way. This link compares MANY countries' demographics in a very personal manner.
Via Seth Dixon
World military spending for 2011 is estimated to be over $1.7 trillion at current prices, and has come to a relative stagnation after it has been steadily rising in recent years. As summarised on t...
Here are some pictures of school lunches from around the world. Korea clearly wins this one (Japan would have if it wasn't for that spaghetti).
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It is possible in many cities to identify zones with a particular type of land use - eg a residential zone. Often these zones have developed due to a combination of economic and social factors. In some cases planners may have tried to separate out some land uses, eg an airport is separated from a large housing estate. The concentric and sector models in one news article? The BBC is showing once again the possibilities available if only the United States taught more geography in the schools. Tags: urban, models, unit 7 cities, APHG.
Via Seth Dixon
Hank takes on high fructose corn syrup - the new "dark lord of nutrition" - to help explain the ambiguities around all the claims being made about it. Like S...
Muslims account for around one-fifth of the world's population, or about 1.6 billion people. They represent the majority population in about 50 countries and territories clustered in Asia and Africa.
Put away that old Rand McNally map — it's time for a new way to see what America really looks like.
A slump in the number of visitors to Tunisia since the country's revolution has forced those in the tourism industry to rethink their businesses.
"AP Human Geography Free Response Questions should be approached in a very deliberate and specific way. APHG teacher Tom Landon explains his approach to teaching students how to do it."
Via Seth Dixon
Wealthy cities seem to have it all. Expansive, well-manicured parks. Fine dining. Renowned orchestras and theaters. More trees. Wait, trees? I certainly wouldn't argue that trees create economic inequality, but there appears to be a strong correlation in between high income neighborhoods and large mature trees in cities throughout the world (for a scholarly reference from the Journal, Landscape and Urban Planning, see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204607002174 ). Why is there such a connection? In terms of landscape analysis, what does this say about those who have created these environments? Why do societies value trees in cities? How does the presence of trees change the sense of place of a particular neighborhood? For more Google images that show the correlation between income and trees (and to share your own), see: http://persquaremile.com/2012/05/24/income-inequality-seen-from-space/
Via Seth Dixon
The UNDP's favoured measure of progress throws up some intriguing comparisonsGROSS domestic product, Robert F. Kennedy said, “measures everything…except that...
A rice enriched with beta-carotene promises to boost the health of poor children around the world.
Via Mr. David Burton
"More than 96,000 students took the AP Human Geography exam in 2012 and it is estimated that there are 3,200 AP Human Geography teachers nationwide. As demand for APHG exams increase, so will the demand for qualified teachers."
Via Seth Dixon
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