NEW! Encompass for Pennsylvania!

A hands-on elementary mapping program.

Encompass K-5: Your Complete Social Studies Solution for Pennsylvania Classrooms

Engage your K-5 students in a hands-on journey through geography, history, and community with Encompass K-5. Designed specifically for Pennsylvania schools, this comprehensive program provides scaffolded atlases, maps, and globes to help students explore the world at their level.

From learning about symbols and maps in Grade 1 to discovering the rich history of the United States in Grade 5, Encompass K-5 offers flexible, stand-alone activities that allow teachers to choose the right lesson for their classroom needs. Each grade builds critical geographic and social studies skills, fostering curiosity and real-world understanding.

Now featuring the Pennsylvania Expansion Pack for Grade 3, this program dives even deeper into our state’s unique history, geography, and communities. With interactive maps and engaging activities, third graders will explore Pennsylvania’s landmarks, government, and how their local community connects to the larger world.

Bring the world—and Pennsylvania—into your classroom with Encompass K-5!

Encompass Cart

A Cartful of Geography Goodies!

Each grade level includes the following durable and engaging components:

  • Teacher’s Guide with Skill-based Activities
  • 30 Student Atlases
  • 6 markable Activity Globes
  • 6 markable Place Mats
  • 6 raised relief Desk Maps
  • 30 U.S./world Desk Maps

Grade K also includes a Big Book, Grades K-3 also includes 15 community desk maps, and Grade 4 also includes 15 U.S./world political desk maps.

Pennsylvania Expansion Pack Components
  • Teacher’s Guide
  • 30 Pennsylvania Desk Maps
  • 6 Pennsylvania Place Mats

Learning that Sticks!

Encompass builds a variety of hands-on learning experiences into the program to ensure that students

  • actively engage with the content;
  • understand and retain more; and
  • recall and use new information.

 

Elementary students working collaboratively to mark up a map

Digital Mapping

Encompass is seamless between print and digital. The digital mapping lives at Nystrom World, where teachers can

  • prep for lessons anytime, anywhere;
  • extend learning with interactive activities;
  • monitor student progress from one dashboard; and
  • involve families by giving them frontline access.
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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
 

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Elementary

  • Maps: Primary: ELS
  • Maps: Primary: Readiness
  • Maps: Primary: Outline World Map
  • Maps: Intermediate: Physical
  • Maps: Intermediate: Political
  • Maps: Intermediate: Continents and Oceans Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Wealth of Countries Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Precipitation Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Temperature Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Time Zones Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Land Use Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Population Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Outline World Map
  • U.S. History:1 Native Americans
  • U.S. History:2 Spanish Explorers
  • U.S. History:3 Explorers
  • U.S. History:4 The Great Exchange
  • U.S. History:5 European Settlements
  • U.S. History:6 Thirteen Britishi Colonies
  • U.S. History:7 Slevery In the Americas
  • U.S. History:8 Revolutionary War
  • State Map

Secondary

  • Maps: Intermediate: Physical
  • Maps: Intermediate: Political
  • Maps: Intermediate: Continents and Oceans Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Wealth of Countries Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Precipitation Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Temperature Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Time Zones Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Land Use Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Population Thematic
  • Maps: Intermediate: Outline World Map
  • Maps: Secondary: Land Use Thematic
  • Maps: Secondary: Population Thematic
  • Maps: Secondary: Political Relief
  • Maps: Secondary: Land Cover
  • Maps: Secondary: Scupltural Relief
  • Maps: Secondary: Growing Seasons Thematic
  • Maps: Secondary: Climate Thematic
  • Maps: Secondary: Tectonic Plates Thematic
  • Maps: Secondary: Precipitation Thematic
  • Maps: Secondary: Outline World Map
  • State Map

U.S. History

  • Native Americans
  • Spanish Explorers
  • Explorers
  • The Great Exchange
  • European Settlements
  • Thirteen British Colonies
  • Slavery in the Americas
  • Revolutionary War
  • American Expansion
  • Explorations of the West
  • Trails West
  • War with Mexico
  • Slavery Divides the Nation
  • Slavery and the Economy
  • Union and Confederacy
  • Civil War
  • Conflicts with Indians
  • Railroads Tansform the West
  • Industrial United States
  • Immigrants 1895–1929
  • World War I in Europe
  • Great Depression and Dust Bowl
  • World War II in Europe 1939–1942
  • World War II in the Pacific 1941–1945
  • Great Migration 1940–1970
  • Korean War
  • Cold War
  • Vietnam War
  • Persian Gulf War
  • A Shifting Population
  • Immigrants Sinve 1970

World History

  • New Babylonian Empire
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Chinese Dynasties
  • Ancient India
  • Athens and Sparta
  • Alexander’s Empire
  • Roman Empire
  • Barbarians and the Roman Empire
  • Silk Road and Eurasian Trade
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Charlemagne’s Frankish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire
  • Spread of Islam
  • World of the Crusades
  • China in the Middle Ages
  • Mongol Conquest
  • Rise and Fall of Shogun Japan
  • Exploration
  • Maya, Aztec, and Inca
  • European Exploration and Land Claims
  • African Empires and States
  • Rise of Ottoman Empire
  • Reformation and Counter Reformation
  • European Trading Empires
  • Rise and Fall of Mughal Empires
  • Independence in the Americas
  • Napoleon’s Europe
  • Europe After the Congress of Vienna
  • Africa Under Foreign Rule
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Cold War
  • World Conflicts Since 1991

Texas

  • Spanish Explorers
  • Western Explorations
  • Trails West
  • War with Mexico
  • Indian Wars
  • Railroads & The West
  • Great Migration
  • population Loss and Growth
  • Native Americans in TX
  • Spanish Settlements
  • Republic of Texas
  • Energy Resources of TX
  • Texas Readiness Map
  • Texas Desk Map
  • Texas State Map