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Exploring Texas Atlas
Build geographic literacy skills with activities designed to make learning stick!
Open the Map to a Deeper Understanding of Texas
Unlock the stories behind Texas’s landscapes and landmarks while building geographic literacy and background knowledge. With the Exploring Texas Atlas, students don’t just study maps—they experience the people, places, and history that define the Lone Star State.
Choose your adventure, using the Exploring Texas Atlas Pack or Encompass: Exploring Texas.
Exploring Texas Atlas Pack
Bring Texas Studies to Your Classroom
The Exploring Texas Atlas Pack empowers teachers to spark curiosity and deepen understanding of Texas’s diverse geography, history, and culture. Built around engaging, TEKS-aligned activities, it helps students connect the people, places, and events throughout history.
By blending experiential and visual learning with inquiry-based practice, the atlas pack supports teachers in fostering geographic literacy, critical thinking, and background knowledge.
Get the Complete Set
The Atlas Pack brings together the atlas, student activities, and digital platform for a seamless curriculum.
- 30 copies of Exploring Texas atlas
- Reproducible student activity book
- 5-year subscription to e-atlas and interactive activities
Encompass: Exploring Texas
Engage, Explore, and Excel—Texas Style
Encompass for Texas gives fourth-grade students the chance to build strong geographic literacy and critical thinking skills from the very start. And it empowers teachers with flexible activities designed for active learning that fit their curriculum, inspire curiosity, and foster collaboration.
When students actively engage with maps, graphs, and charts focused on Texas, they build the background knowledge they need to succeed in elementary school and beyond.
Get A Cartful of Geography Tools
Everything you need to take fourth graders on a journey through Texas, stored on a handy cart!
- Teacher’s guide
- 30 copies of Exploring Texas atlas
- 6 desk-size activity globes
- 30 U.S./world physical desk maps
- 15 U.S./world political desk maps
- 6 Social Studies Place Mats
- 6 raised-relief maps
- 30 narrow-tipped markers
Plus a 5-year subscription to interactive mapping on Nystrom World.
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