maps

Readers will be introduced to some of the most famous places in Europe while learning mapping skills through discussion of climate, geography, and population. Colorful maps complement the main content.

Readers will enjoy traveling into the bush through the colorful images in this book as they learn about the geography, population, and natural resources of Australia with the help of detailed maps.

Simple political, landform, and climate maps introduce readers to some of the most common types of maps, while colorful photographs show them the beauty of Asia beyond boundaries and longitude lines.

Readers will learn about a great mountain range buried under ice, massive glaciers, and the wildlife that survives the cold. Majestic photographs and detailed maps will engage readers as geographical, historical, and weather information introduce them to the fifth-largest continent on Earth.

As the second-largest continent, Africa offers thousands of miles of tropical rainforest, desert, and highlands to explore. It's a font of natural resources and home to 1 billion people! Readers will trek through the many climate zones and cities found in Africa as they are introduced to the continent.

Teaches the relationship between the real world, small models of real locations, and the purpose of maps. Engaging models of a neighborhood, school and face, become "maps" before our eyes. Information on the models is shown to correspond to simple maps, location and scale. Expands the concept to include globes, or views of the world from high above, showing the difference between water and land (continents) on a globe and on a map. Identifies places on a map of the United States from stories of the past, i.e. where Columbus landed and where the President lives.

Traces through maps the history of the United States from the earliest migrations to the New World to the present day.

Information--current and historic--is presented in 56 pages of detailed maps.

Presents an overview of the American South, from Native American settlers through the economic growth and success of the Sun Belt.