BIG Ideas
The big ideas are the lens through which we interpret and examine government. These big ideas are meant to help you organize and categorize key political concepts, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the constitutional system and political culture of the United States.. Rather than try to memorize all the facts of AP Government and Politics, these themes help you to see the patterns in the Disciplinary Practices and Reasoning Processes.
There are 5 Big Ideas for AP Government and Politics. To make them easier to remember (and to make our notes and notecards easier to categorize), they are color coordinated here.
There are 5 Big Ideas for AP Government and Politics. To make them easier to remember (and to make our notes and notecards easier to categorize), they are color coordinated here.