A comprehensive series designed to showcase particular features of a country.
Provides maps, timeline, fast facts, charts, and vivid four-color photographs.
Full-colored maps, photos, and interesting sidebars complement the text.
Also included are a timeline, fast facts, and a to find out more section.
Curriculum Standards:
Grades 5-8 Social Studies
Culture: I
Explain how language, literature, the arts, architecture, traditions, beliefs, values, and behaviors contribute to the development and transmissions of culture.
Time, Continuity, & Change: II
Identify and use key concepts such as chronology, change, and conflict to explain and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity.
People, Places, & Environments: III
Elaborate mental maps of locales, regions, and the world that demonstrate understanding of relative location, direction, size, and shape.
