Focus on the big ideas with an accessible student text built around Essential Questions, enduring understandings, and national geography standards.

"Built with trusted authorship and aligned to the National Geography Standards, the NCSS and Common Core Standards for Literacy in History and Social Studies. -- Focus on critical concepts through Big Ideas, Essential Questions, and Enduring Understandings. -- Maximize comprehension with integrated reading strategies, vocabulary support, Visual Literacy activities, and Guiding Questions. -- Bring the world to your classroom with engaging features, time lines, projects, infographics, and much more." -- publisher

Covers the geography of the world with an emphasis on human geography. Explore issues relating to human geography such as labor migration, energy resources and indigenous rights, and the socioeconomic status of women. Developed with an emphasis on cultivating strong reading and writing skills, as well as building critical thinking and analysis skills through a variety of activities such as Why Geography Matters, Global Connections, Case Studies, Geo @ Work, Explore the Region. Visuals, maps, videos, and animations throughout to engage students and bring the content to life.

Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth’s land surface and a quarter of the global population lives in or adjacent to these areas. The global importance of mountains is recognized particularly because they provide critical resources, such as water, food and wood; contain high levels of biological and cultural diversity; and are often places for tourism and recreation and/or of sacred significance. This major revision of Larry Price’s book Mountains and Man (1981) is both timely and highly appropriate. The past three decades have been a period of remarkable progress in our understanding of mountains from an academic point of view. Of even greater importance is that society at large now realizes that mountains and the people who reside in them are not isolated from the mainstream of world affairs, but are vital if we are to achieve an environmentally sustainable future. Mountain Geography is a comprehensive resource that gives readers an in-depth understanding of the geographical processes occurring in the world’s mountains and the overall impact of these regions on culture and society as a whole. The volume begins with an introduction to how mountains are defined, followed by a comprehensive treatment of their physical geography: origins, climatology, snow and ice, landforms and geomorphic processes, soils, vegetation, and wildlife. The concluding chapters provide an introduction to the human geography of mountains: attitudes toward mountains, people living in mountain regions and their livelihoods and interactions within dynamic environments, the diverse types of mountain agriculture, and the challenges of sustainable mountain development.

Complete Classroom Set, Print includes a Classroom Set of 30 Print Student Editions, with a Print Teacher Edition.

Animals are cleverly disguised by the shape of the letters in this fun lift-the-flap book. An alphabet of animals is hiding under each letter in this fun lift-the-flap book! Your little one will meet a collection of colorful new friends as he or she learns the letters from A to Z. Children will love to turn the chunky pages and lift the flap on each letter to discover what animal is hiding underneath. Young readers will meet an alligator under the A, a bear under the B, and a crab under the C. And who is hiding under the rest of the letters?