Social Studies Success for All

Ensure that all of your students across the district build the skills they need to master social studies! Let's work together to customize a set of supplemental resources that meet your district's goals and standards.

Primary Source Analysis

Primary Sources for Primary Schools


Introduce young learners to historical images, illustrations, and documents with a library of leveled Social Studies Readers. Our K-5 readers cover the same content at four levels, helping students analyze primary and secondary sources with the support of leveled text.

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Available in print and online at Nystrom World

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Primary Sources for Secondary Schools


Give 6-12 students access to hundreds of primary and secondary sources with Active Classroom. This digital learning platform includes built-in image analysis tools that support students in analyzing primary sources, from artifacts to political cartoons.

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Learning platform with built-in tools

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Data-Rich Sources for K-12


Give students digital access to all of our atlases, which feature a variety of images, graphs, and charts. The Researcher, accessed through Nystrom World, is home to atlases and interactive activities that guide students in analyzing secondary sources.

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E-book atlases and interactive activities

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Reading & Writing

Activities for K-5


K-5 Social Studies Readers cover the same content at four reading levels. Every reader includes pre- and post-reading activities to support reading comprehension, including writing prompts that guide students in responding to the text.

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Available in print and online at Nystrom World

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Prompts for 6-12


Secondary students build literacy skills through the close readings, writing prompts, and research projects included in Active Classroom. Their work is supported by translation, text-to-speech, and annotation tools as well as graphic organizers.

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Learning platform with built-in tools

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Content Area for K-12


Our mapping programs foster two kinds of literacy: "text" literacy and geographic literacy. Students read and write in the content area of geography. Elementary students are guided by Encompass, our new hands-on mapping program. Secondary students explore the geographic history of the United States and the world.

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Available in print, digital coming in 2023

Explore Secondary Mapping Programs

Available in print and online at Nystrom World

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Inferences & Conclusions

Elementary Atlases


Our elementary atlases and activities give young students practice in making inferences and drawing conclusions. Students are guided by chunked text, images, maps, and data in making connections between the peoples and places that make up the world around them.

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Available in print and online at Nystrom World

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Secondary Texts


Active Classroom is home to a number of texts that guide secondary students in making inferences and drawing conclusions. History's Mysteries and Peter Menzel's Hungry Planet are two examples of texts that engage students while teaching essential skills.

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Learning platform with built-in tools

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Simulations for Grades 4-12


Simulation-based learning is a highly engaging way to teach essential skills. Students make inferences and draw conclusions during a collaborative quest in Caravans and while trying to survive a zombie apocalypse in Zombie-Based Geography.

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Available in print and online at Active Classroom

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Cause & Effect

Key Events in History


Active Classroom includes courses and texts that help secondary students understand the causes and effects of history up to modern times. Students collect evidence from close readings, informational text, and primary and secondary sources, including audio clips, documents, photographs, and videos.

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Learning platform with built-in tools

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Historical Issues Today


Using multistep problems in Mapping World History and Mapping United States History and "Historical Issues Today" articles in the Atlas of World History, secondary students examine the causes and effects of history. The articles provide two points of view on a current issue viewed through the lens of history.

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Available in print and online at Nystrom World

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Map Interpretation Skills

Hands-On for K-12


Teach map interpretation skills using a variety of maps and globes and you'll also increase reading, math, visual literacy, and spatial thinking too. Because all of these skills are involved when students interpret maps. Our maps and globes are scaffolded for students from kindergarten through secondary school.

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Markable maps and globes

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Interactive for K-12


Get students' hands on interactive maps and globes too, through Nystrom World's Geographer. Your students will have access to 3D globes as well as outline, satellite, political, and thematic maps, which they'll mark up using a built-in Toolbox.

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Digital maps and globes

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