On April 17, the students enrolled in AP Human Geography are going on a field trip to downtown Dallas, Fair Park, and the Hard Rock Café.

APHG students are to arrive at Flower Mound High School around 7:45 a.m., where they will then load onto buses. Participants, divided into groups of 10 or 11 people of their choice, will be given a chaperone parent or teacher to lead the groups’ activities.

“I am definitely looking forward to this field trip,” freshman Shruthika Kamat said. “Being able to actually experience real life examples of human geography will broaden my databank of knowledge.”

The bus plans to carry students to the DART Carrollton/Frankfort station, and then students will depart on the Green Line towards Fair Park.

While riding on the DART train, students are expected to answer questions from a packet they are given, and to analyze the components of human geography that they have been studying all year in class.

“I’m excited to go on a field trip with just the Humanities students,” freshman Sarah Moore said. “I have an opportunity to spend time with some of the friends I have drifted apart from this year.”

When the class arrives at Martin Luther King Jr. station and walks through Fair Park, students will then reload onto the Green Line until they arrive at West End stop.

Once at West End stop, everyone will walk to the Hard Rock Café to eat lunch and to further apply the knowledge they have learned this year about human geography.

After everyone has finished eating their lunch, they must all get on the Green line, which is going to take them back to the Carrollton Frankfort station. Students then load back onto the school buses and depart for FMHS, at which they are to arrive around 2:30 p.m.

“This field trip is a wonderful study tool for the AP exam,” freshman Varun Prabhu said. “It will help me connect what I learned in class to real world events.”

APHG teachers are excited for this opportunity in which students can apply their knowledge of the various concepts they have discussed in class all year. In addition, the handout students will be given is also to be used as a guide to help them look around and discover the surrounding urban areas and cultures.