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Explore the first big idea of AP Seminar! These resources will help you understand the importance of questioning and exploring. Here you can learn how to ask the right questions, and ways this relates to your exam and how to properly study and prepare so you can fully understand big idea one!

Big Idea 1: Question and Explore 

The second big idea of AP Seminar focuses on understanding and analyzing. These resources will cover essential questions you must understand, as well as the Raven template and how it plays a role within your exam. These resources all explain how this big idea will appear within your performance tasks for your exam.

Big Idea 2: Understand and Analyze 

The third of AP Seminar's big ideas is evaluating multiple perspectives. We cover how to identify perspectives, and how understanding a perspective will show up on your performance tasks. These resources will make sure you understand perspectives and this big idea!

Big Idea 3: Evaluate Multiple Perspectives 

Learn all about big idea number four of AP Seminar: synthesizing ideas. These resources cover the important, essential questions and how to understand and connect evidence to form ideas. We also cover plagiarism and how to make sure you avoid it, along with this big idea's importance on the exam.

Finally, review the last big idea of AP Seminar: team, transform, and transmit. These resources cover how to engage your audience, how to effectively present your ideas and the importance of being a good team member. Finally, we cover how this will show up in your performance tasks so you are ready for your exam!

Big Idea 5: Team, Transform, and Transmit

These resources will help prepare you for your AP Seminar exam. With detailed descriptions and explanations of the first performance task, involving the team project, as well as the second performance task involving the individual research project. There are also helpful tips for your essay responses to ensure that you are ready for the exam!

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Unit 4: Later Europe and Americas, 1750–1980 ce

Unit 5: Indigenous Americas, 1000 bce–1980 ce 

Unit 6: Africa, 1100–1980 ce 

Unit 7: West and Central Asia, 500 bce–1980 ce 

Unit 8: South, East, and Southeast Asia, 300 bce–1980 ce 

Unit 9: The Pacific, 700–1980 ce 

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Unit 4: Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments

Unit 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century

Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects

Unit 7: 19th-Century Perspectives and Political Developments

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