AP Human Geography Resources from CFR Education

CFR Education offers a range of free resources that can supplement your AP Human Geography curriculum. Browse articles, timelines, videos, and simulations that help students explore how humans have understood, used, and changed the surface of the earth.

Skills students learn with CFR Education Human Geography Resources:

Understanding information shown in maps, tables, charts, graphs, images, and infographics
Connecting geographic concepts and processes to real-life scenarios
Seeing patterns and trends in data and in visual sources such as maps and drawing conclusions from them
Understanding spatial relationships using geographic scales

Unit 1: Thinking Geographically
Geographic Data	What Is Colonialism and How Did It Arise? How Self-Determination Shaped the Modern World Marriage Equality Around the World Laws, Norms, and Democratic Backsliding Migration Today
Human - Environmental Interaction	Climate Change Adaptations What Is Water Scarcity? Sources of Energy: A Comparison Fires in the Amazon [video] What Is Climate Change? [video]
Regional Analysis	East Asia & The Pacific \| Geopolitics Europe \| Geopolitics Middle East & North Africa \| Geopolitics South & Central Asia \| Geopolitics Sub-Saharan Africa \| Geopolitics The Americas \| Geopolitics

Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
Population	Global Population Growth Is Slowing Down What Is Economic Inequality? How Did Humans Come to Live Longer and Healthier Lives? What Is Development? [video] Climate Change Inequality What Is Water Scarcity? Resource Conflicts, Explained
Migration	What Is Migration? [video] Migration Today For Migrants, Labels Matter The Lasting Effects of Emigration [video] Internally Displaced Persons: Migrants Who Do Not Cross a National Border
Regional Analysis	East Asia & The Pacific \| People and Society Europe \| People and Society Middle East & North Africa \| People and Society South & Central Asia \| People and Society Sub-Saharan Africa \| People and Society The Americas \| People and Society
Simulations	Cuban Immigration in 1980

Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes
Cultural Context	Regions of the World

Unit 4: Political Processes and Patterns
Political Processes	How Self-Determination Shaped the Modern World Essential Events Since 1945 [timeline] How Do Governments Approach Foreign Policy? [video] How Do Countries Select Their Foreign Policy Tools? [video]
Political Boundaries	Why Do We Live in Countries? [video] What Is Colonialism and How Did It Arise? What is Sovereignty? [video]
Forms of Governance	What Is Government? [video] What Kinds of Governments Exist? Laws, Norms, and Democratic Backsliding Understanding Revolutions
Challenges to Sovereignty	Tanks, Sanctions, and Separatists: The Various Challenges to Sovereignty The Rise and Fall of the Responsibility to Protect [timeline] NATO: The World’s Largest Alliance [timeline] How Is Conflict Changing? [video]
Consequences of Forces	Statelessness Around the World Understanding the Constructive and Destructive Natures of Nationalism
Regional Context	Regions of the World
Simulations	Dispute in East China Sea Humanitarian Intervention in South Sudan Unrest in Bahrain

Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
Climate Change	Climate Change and the Coffee Industry [video] What Is Water Scarcity? What Is Climate Change? [video] Climate Change Adaptations
Development	Technology and Development [video] Sustainable Development Goals
Trade	How Globalization Affects What’s for Brunch [video] What is Trade? [video] What Gets in the Way of Free Trade? How Did Mass Production and Mass Consumption Take Off After World War II?
Simulations	Global Climate Change Policy Solar Geoengineering Stopping Deforestation in the Amazon

Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes
Climate Change	What Is Climate Change? [video] The Paris Agreement Climate Change Adaptations
Development	What Is Development? [video] The Sustainable Development Goals
Globalization	What Is Globalization? [video] It Takes a Village to Make Your Medicine Trains, Planes, and Shipping Containers Two Hundred Years of Global Communications [timeline]
Regional Context	East Asia & The Pacific \| People and Society Middle East & North Africa \| People and Society Sub-Saharan Africa \| People and Society

Unit 7: Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes
Industrialization	What Are the Origins of Modern Production? How Did Mass Production and Mass Consumption Take Off After World War II? Technology and Development [video] Who Is Responsible for Climate Change? [video]
Development	Understanding the Last 50 Years of Global Development [timeline] What Is Development? [video] What Is Economic Inequality? The Sustainable Development Goals
Trade and the World Economy	What Is Trade? [video] What Gets in the Way of Free Trade? What Happened When China Joined the WTO? What Are the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund? Trade as Foreign Policy [video] How Trade Rules are Written Foreign Investment 101
Simulations	Economic Statecraft: Foreign Assistance Trade Policy

Teaching AP history classes? CFR Education has resources that align with the AP U.S. History curriculum and the AP World History curriculum. Browse articles, timelines, videos, and simulations covering developments that have shaped the world.