The Right Challenge. The Right Support. The Right Growth.
Meet Secondary Students Where They Are with Atlas Assistant
Build Geographic Literacy and Background Knowledge
Develop Comprehension and Meaning
Atlas Assistant uses adaptive learning and interactive conversations to guide students as they explore maps, images, and informational texts. Students build the reading, analysis, and interpretation skills they need to understand both the past and the world around them today.
Atlas Assistant asks students to struggle, successfully, as they strengthen their disciplinary literacy skills of reading, analysis, and interpretation. And it meets your state social studies standards!
A New Way to Learn, One Conversation at a Time
Nystrom Atlases have always helped students see the world—Atlas Assistant turns these tools into an interactive, student-driven learning experience. Through adaptive questions and guided conversations about maps, charts, graphs, and images, students build geographic literacy, background knowledge, and confidence while engaging at just the right level of challenge. Aligned to state standards and designed to support skill reinforcement, enrichment, and independent work, Atlas Assistant helps every student not only read the atlas, but better understand the world within its pages.
Guided Learning Built for Growth
Atlas Assistant leads students through a structured progression:
- Locate information using maps, visuals, and text
- Interpret and compare multiple sources
- Analyze and reason using evidence
- Apply knowledge to meaningful tasks
Interactive, adaptive conversations adjust question complexity and vocabulary based on student readiness levels. Sessions conclude with an auto-generated summary mapped to state standards and saved in the student portfolio.
Insight Into Student Learning
Atlas Assistant gives teachers a clear path to teach essential skills that are often under-practiced in daily instruction. Each session is aligned to state standards and saved in a student portfolio, providing meaningful insight into interpretation, analysis, and application of knowledge.
Leaders gain a resource that supports consistent skill development across classrooms—whether used for reinforcement, enrichment, independent or small-group work, or progress monitoring. Learn more below.
Instructional Use Cases
Atlas Assistant can be utilized in a variety of ways to support your goals and the needs of all learners.
Background Knowledge and Literacy
Reinforcement of Skills
Independent or Small Group Work
Enrichment
Progress Monitoring
Frequently Asked Questions
Atlas Assistant is a digital tool for secondary social studies classrooms that uses adaptive learning and interactive conversations to guide students as they explore maps, images, and informational texts. It focuses on building geographic literacy, background knowledge, and the reading and thinking skills students need to understand the world.
Atlas Assistant is designed for secondary classrooms and can be used in a variety of social studies courses where students are working with geographic information, visuals, and informational text.
When you sign up for the free trial, you’ll get access to Atlas Assistant for five days. During that time, you can explore the student experience, try out activities, and see how the program supports your goals for social studies instruction.
If you want more time to explore the free trial, reach out to us at sales@socialstudies.com or 800-421-4246.
Atlas Assistant adjusts the level of guidance and challenge based on how students respond. Questions and prompts provide more scaffolding when needed or push students toward deeper analysis, so all learners grow.
Atlas Assistant can be used for the following instructional use cases. To learn more about these use cases, see above.
- Build background knowledge and literacy
- Reinforce skills aligned to social studies standards
- Have students work independently or in small groups
- Enrich learning by using as an extension for advanced students
- Monitor progress using the documented conversations and summaries
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