Texas Specific Resources

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Designed to inspire deep interaction with content while aligning with standards in your state.

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The First Edition Nystrom Atlas of Texas History is specifically designed to meet TEKS objectives and history standards. The atlas provides concise, necessary information. A diverse range of notable figures are highlighted, many of which would not get the properly deserved attention from larger textbooks.

A World of Learning

The Fifth Edition Nystrom Desk Atlas includes political relief, land cover, and sculptural relief maps, plus regional maps, thematic maps, cross-section elevation profiles, infographics, captioned photographs, and Issues Today articles.

Atlas of Texas History

Texas State Edition Active Classroom License

Go digital with our easy-to-use platform that allows students to explore Texas social studies. Active Classroom provides engaging assessments with question types that are STAAR approved for the Texas Classroom.

This newly redesigned program provides activities that differentiate while providing skills that students will have to be familiar with for standardized state tests. The new Mexican American Studies content is now available in Active Classroom with complete curriculum maps. The African American Studies course is coming soon to Active Classroom for Fall 2021.

Texas History Maps

12-Map Set

Provide a deeper look into key events in Texas and U.S. history with 12 wall maps, mounted on a roller:

Native Americans in Texas
Spanish Explorers
Spanish Settlements
Republic of Texas
War With Mexico; 1846–1848
American Expansion
Slavery and the Economy; 1860
The Union and the Confederacy
Indian Wars; 1622–1890
Railroads Transform the West
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
Texas Energy Resources

Desk Maps

Map Set (NYS3442)

Facilitate hands-on mapping activities with markable desk maps showing county boundaries, geographical features, capitals, city populations, and more. These match our Texas wall map so students can follow along while the teacher works at the front of the class.

Texas/U.S./World Map Set

Give students a visual understanding of Texas county boundaries, geographical features, capitals, and city populations. These colorful, easy to use, and well-organized wall maps are mounted on a spring roller for quick access.

Texas on Nystrom World

Mapping Texas History is also available as a digital mapping program. Use it alongside the physical program or on its own. The interactive digital mapping activities can be assigned, tracked, and graded through one interface on Nystrom World.

Using print and digital together offers teachers flexibility in delivery and students the opportunity to engage with content in multiple formats.

Nystrom Desk Atlas

The official atlas for the University Interscholastic League (UIL) A+ contest.

The A+ Maps, Graphs & Charts contest is a competition for students grades 5-8 designed to help students learn how to gather information from a variety of maps, graphs, and charts including world maps, pie charts, bar charts, and local area maps.

TEXAS: Decision Making in U.S. History

Involving students in real historical problems that convey powerful lessons about Texas history, these thought-provoking activities combine core content with valuable practice in decision making, critical thinking, and understanding multiple perspectives.

“Now more than ever, students need the intellectual power to recognize societal problems, ask good questions and develop robust investigations into them, consider possible solutions and consequences, separate evidence-based claims from parochial opinions, and communicate and act upon what they learn.”

C3 Framework

for Social Studies School Standards

Contact your Texas Curriculum Specialist

Contact your curriculum specialist to learn more.

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