Description
- 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.
