How have Mexico's largest cities help shape the destiny of that country? What insights can a ninteenth-century economist give us about population growth? Two essay-style questions help your learners unravel complicated relationships. From city demographics to population growth, the questions help individuals craft ideas and practice for their own exams.

Concepts

human population, thomas malthus, mexico, mexico city, test preparation

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use test questions for discussion prompts
• Offer one or both test questions for exam practice

Classroom Considerations

• Items are from the free-response portion of the 2011 AP Human Geography exam

Pros

• Prompts are easy to adapt into a variety of lessons
• Guidelines and scoring rubrics make assessment of learner progress easy

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.10