Explore Texas and Beyond with Encompass
Build geographic literacy, background knowledge, and comprehension with one hands-on mapping program!
Learning that Lasts with Encompass
Help your elementary students make sense of their world, locally and globally. Encompass guides students in connecting places to events, which builds mapping skills, critical thinking, and background knowledge, leading to deeper retention and setting students up for success across the grades.
Exploring Texas for Grade 4 focuses on Texas’s unique history, geography, and culture.
A Scaffolded Journey
From Kindergarten through Grade 5, students journey from exploring their immediate world to understanding global connections and U.S. history. They begin with family, community, and maps, then learn how people and places change over time. By the upper grades, they study how geography shapes Texas and how maps, graphs, and images reveal the story of our nation.
Supplemental & Flexible
Encompass is the perfect supplement for your social studies curriculum. Activities instantly engage students and take 15-30 minutes to teach, making them easy to fit into instructional time.
And they can be taught sequentially or stand on their own, giving teachers choice and flexibility.
Experiential & Highly Visual
With Encompass, students interact with informational texts, graphs, charts, photographs, primary sources, and markable maps and globes. No matter their learning styles, all your students
- actively engage with the content;
- understand and retain more;
- build background knowledge; and
- recall and apply new information.
A Cartful of Geography Tools
Each grade level includes the following components that live on a handy cart:
- 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
Choose your grade below to see a full list of components.
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.
Beginnings
Kindergartners start learning about their neighborhoods and communities through hands-on geography resources that empower them to understand the world around them.
Components
- Encompass Beginnings Teacher's Guide
- The World Around Me Big Book Atlas
- 30 The World Around Me student atlases
- 6 9" activity globes
- 15 community desk maps
- 6 Social Studies Place Mats
- 6 raised relief maps
- 30 wide-tipped markers
- Elementary Atlas Cart
- 5-year subscription to interactive platform
Viewpoints
First graders are introduced to geography by identifying symbols, land, and water on a map, and learning about neighborhoods, our country, and the world.
Components
- Encompass Viewpoints Teacher's Guide
- 30 See the World student atlases
- 6 9" activity globe
- 30 U.S./world desk maps
- 15 community desk maps
- 6 Social Studies Place Mats
- 6 raised relief maps
- 30 wide-tipped markers
- Elementary Atlas Cart
- 5-year subscription to interactive platform
Changes
Second graders focus on new concepts and topics, such as natural features, community changes over time, U.S. population changes, and protecting our world.
Components
- Encompass Changes Teacher's Guide
- 30 Our Changing World student atlases
- 6 9" activity globe
- 30 U.S./world desk maps
- 15 community desk maps
- 6 Social Studies Place Mats
- 6 raised relief maps
- 30 narrow-tipped markers
- Elementary Atlas Cart
- 5-year subscription to interactive platform
Connections
Third graders explore additional concepts and topics, including cardinal directions, latitude and longitude, and taking action in communities, in our
country, and around the world.
Components
- Encompass Connections Teacher's Guide
- 30 Our Place in the World student atlases
- 6 9" activity globe
- 30 U.S./world desk maps
- 15 community desk maps
- 6 Social Studies Place Mats
- 6 raised relief maps
- 30 narrow-tipped markers
- Elementary Atlas Cart
- 5-year subscription to interactive platform
Texas State Studies
Fourth graders go on a journey through Texas with Encompass: Exploring Texas, Grade 4 – this program features TEKS-aligned activities and an atlas, desk map, and place mat focused on Texas to engage students while developing essential skills in geography and history.
Components
- Encompass Exploring Texas Teacher's Guide
- 30 Exploring Texas student atlases
- 30 Texas state desk maps
- 15 Texas Place Mats
- 6 9" activity globe
- 30 U.S./world desk maps
- 15 raised relief maps
- 30 wet-erase markers
- Elementary Atlas Cart
- 5-year subscription to interactive platform
U.S. History
Fifth graders explore the geographic history of our country, including the time of the first Americans to twentieth-century America and modern America's
changing population and technological advances.
Components
- Encompass U.S. History Teacher's Guide
- 30 Our Country's History student atlases
- 6 9" activity globe
- 30 U.S./world folding desk maps
- 6 Social Studies Place Mats
- 6 raised relief maps
- 30 narrow-tipped markers
- Elementary Atlas Cart
- 5-year subscription to interactive platform
