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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. 

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Exploring Texas atlas Pack

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.

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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.

Learn more about the Exploring Texas Atlas

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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