Our new elementary atlases have been completely redesigned and updated to reflect the world we're living in, which will help your students better connect to it, both locally and globally.
Colorful maps and graphics, easy-to-follow nonfiction texts, and engaging hands-on activities meet the needs of every learner.
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Easily integrate social studies into instructional time. There's a student activity for each two-page spread of the atlases, which can be completed in 15–30 minutes.
Choose the activities that will fit your needs and engage your students. Which activities you do and when is completely flexible.
With our new atlases, it's easy to teach the right skills at the right time with the right amount of support. The atlases and activities are scaffolded and aligned to social studies standards and the C3 Framework.
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Atlas e-books and brand-new interactive activities for Grades 1–5 support learning anytime, anywhere.
Early elementary students' perspectives scale up from neighborhoods and communities to states and countries as they learn foundational skills. Friendly characters, easy-to-follow text, a simple glossary, and hands-on activity sheets support them in their learning.
Upper elementary students learn more complex concepts and skills through an in-depth study of our country. And they work more independently through their atlases, supported by how-tos, reference maps, and easy-to-follow activities.
The new elementary atlases include everything educators have come to depend on from Nystrom—and more!
New and Notable Content
Engaging activities and literacy lessons build on the atlas and make it easy to meet social studies standards.
Students learn essential concepts and skills, such as
Atlas Packs bring together the atlas, student activities, and digital platform for a seamless teaching and learning experience.
Included in the Atlas Pack:
The oversized Jumbo Atlas features hands-on interactivity that makes social studies tangible for young learners while developing geography, visual analysis, and literacy skills.
Join the friendliest family of elephants as they direct students around the neighborhood, and present questions that spark discussion, and introduce themes such as “Family, Friends, and Me” and “Around the World.”
Components
Theme: Perspective
Focus: Neighborhoods
See the World helps first graders understand what we can see on maps and globes, what neighborhoods look like, where people live and work, and how children on different continents are like them.
Backyard Buddies show first graders the world from different perspectives.
Spanish atlas pack coming soon.
Atlas Pack Components
Theme: Change
Focus: Communities
Our Changing World helps second graders explore the people and places that make up a community, both locally and globally.
Bird Guides help second graders focus on change over time and from place to place as well as how maps change how we see the world.
Spanish atlas pack coming soon.
Atlas Pack Components
Theme: Taking action
Focus: Countries and continents
Our Place in the World is designed to help third graders ask questions and take action as they learn about how communities work, our government, and what it's like to live on other continents.
Habitat Helpers ask compelling questions that lead to deeper knowledge and help strengthen students' map skills.
Spanish atlas pack coming soon.
Atlas Pack Components
Focus: Regions of the U.S.
Our Country's Geography focuses on more advanced map skills and explores the regions of the United States, including environmental, geographic, and technological developments.
"Taking Action" pop-outs ask compelling questions to inspire fourth graders to engage with their environments.
Spanish atlas pack coming soon.
Atlas Pack Components
Focus: U.S. history
Our Country's History takes fifth graders on an exploration of major events situated in time and place, from 1400 to the present.
"Lasting Legacies" focus on events from different time periods and their impact on the future.
Spanish atlas pack coming soon.
Atlas Pack Components
