K-12 Social Studies Solutions

US History: American Stories is a middle school U.S. History program that matches content rigor and richness with accessibility for all students. The program connects historical events to students’ lives today and promotes empathy, tolerance, and understanding for all people. Emphasis is on student engagement, empowerment, and active citizenship. True to National Geographic’s mission, American Stories embraces diversity, honors cultural heritage, and advocates for taking care of the planet we all share. (Available as a comprehensive course or as Beginnings to 1877)

Bring world issues into focus for middle school students with Global Issues! This series of classroom readers consists of books at three reading levels per topic, covering 12 of the most important geographic and environmental issues of our time. (Print and eBooks, English and Spanish)

This is a must-have series for middle school educators! National Geographic Explore informational texts enable teachers to expand on their favorite classroom topics. Students are drawn in by the magazine-like, visual approach of these 18 books. This series includes Assessments, Document-Based Question, and Inquiry Projects. (Aligns to World Cultures and Geography, World History, and U.S. History.)

National Geographic U.S. History America Through the Lens combines authentic National Geographic Exploration and media to engage all students. Prepare your students for an increasingly diverse future with stories from over 30 diverse, fascinating, and passionate National Geographic Explorers who can’t wait to share their research with high school students. Inspire your students to recognize the diversity of cultures and backgrounds that comprise our country. Every individual has a story to tell and U.S. History America Through the Lens will help students tell their story. (Available as a comprehensive course or as 1887 to Present)

Discover the history of the globe with high school World History Voyages of Exploration. This stunning voyage into the history of the world emphasizes cultural diversity, artifacts from around the world, rigorous yet accessible content, special lessons and photography, and the travels and research of National Geographic Explorers. Put students at the center of learning as they discover their role as global citizens. The program respects cultures from around the world, celebrates diversity, achieves a fair and balanced instructional environment, and provides accessibility to all students as required in today’s classrooms

National Geographic American Government, brings a fresh, current approach to the teaching of how our nation is governed and the important role our citizens play in shaping policies and legislative direction. The actions and decisions made at all levels of government affect every individual in our country. (Materials built for one semester, most frequently partnered with Contemporary Economics)

Human Geography A Spatial Perspective is designed specifically for high school AP students. It aligns closely to the College Board Course and Exam Description to improve student performance on the AP Exam. The program emphasizes learning through inquiry; establishes real-world content authenticity through the storytelling of National Geographic Explorers and photographers; offers original National Geographic videos shot across the world; encourages students to write routinely and use qualitative, quantitative, and spatial information; provides Formative Assessments–including “Unpacking the FRQ activities–that increase student confidence and familiarity with course content and assessment formats; provides Summative Assessment test practice aligned to the AP exam.

Kennedy’s THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, AP EDITION, 18e combines excellent scholarship with a witty and engaging narrative style and a creative look at the history of the United States in order to build students’ critical thinking skills and inspire a love of American history. This best-selling AP U.S. History text is a clear and approachable book for any student studying American history.

Primary source documents, often accessible only in musty archives, are the raw material from which historian craft their stories. The American Spirit is a virtual archive where students can touch the evidence deposited by the living, breathing, often conflicted and frequently contentious men and women who lived and shaped America’s past.

Boyer/Clark/Halttunen/Kett/Salisbury/Sitkoff/Woloch/Rieser’s THE ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 10th EDITION, is designed for both college classrooms and Advanced Placement courses in U.S. history. Although it offers an appropriately complex treatment of the American past, it requires no prerequisite knowledge from students. The approach is not only comprehensive, but readable, lively and illuminating. The text aims to integrate the best recent scholarship in all fields of American history without abandoning a clear political and chronological framework. Its engaging narrative integrates political, social and cultural history within a chronological framework. Inspired by recent scholarship, the last three editions have maintained these strengths while enhancing coverage of Native American, African American and women’s history.

American Government and Politics Today is known nationwide for its balanced, unbiased, and modern coverage of constitutional, governmental, political, social, and economic structures and their processes. The book provides students knowledge they need to make informed choices, encourages them to play an active role in the decision-making process, and encourages their enthusiastic participation in the world around them.

THE CHALLENGE OF DEMOCRACY: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN GLOBAL POLITICS is highly acclaimed for the non-ideological framework it uses to explore three themes: freedom, order, and equality as political values; the majoritarianism versus pluralism debate; and globalization’s effect on American politics.

Western Civilization Since 1300 aims to put the story back in history. Historical analysis reveals how historians often disagree on their interpretations of the past, thus promoting critical thinking in the AP® classroom. The updated 10th edition of Western Civilization, aligned with the updated course framework and exam, assists a new generation of students in learning more about the past that has helped create them and the world in which they live.

Bulliet/Hirsch/Johnson’s THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, 8th Edition, AP Edition, presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power and toward the living conditions and activities of ordinary people. The Advanced Placement Edition has been extensively customized to closely align to the College Board’s latest course and exam description for AP World History: Modern. The program also provides a wide range of high school specific resources for teachers and students.

Hansen’s VOYAGES IN WORLD HISTORY, AP EDITION, 4th STUDENT EDITION, focuses on the constant movement of people, goods and ideas throughout history. This edition is closely aligned to the new AP® Course and Exam Description for World History: Modern. Each chapter introduces a different traveler through history — including merchants, poets, rulers, explorers, soldiers, missionaries and scholars — and allows students to experience adventures as seen through the eyes of the travelers. The course is designed so that every chapter includes broad global connections to help students understand events in a larger context. The program also offers an interactive digital version of the course in MindTap and a wide variety of other teacher and student resources, including Fast Track to a 5, a comprehensive AP® test-prep tool that is available both in print and digitally.

Noted teachers and scholars William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel’s balanced and readable WORLD HISTORY, 10TH STUDENT EDITION, explores common challenges and experiences of the human past and identifies key patterns over time. The authors integrate political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural and military history into a chronological framework to help students gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society. This approach, with an organization around seven major themes, helps students link events together in a comparative and global framework — and view history and the contemporary world in a meaningful context.

For an accessible, comprehensive global survey of the world’s major civilizations, Adler and Pouwels’ WORLD CIVILIZATIONS offers a great balance between detail and brevity. This unique student-oriented text offers 53 short chapters accompanied by strong pedagogy and critical thinking tools, giving instructors the flexibility to assign a wide range of major topics in world history in a variety of different ways, while making learning more manageable for students. The focused treatment of topics throughout history covers every major epoch and follows broad patterns and processes, while illuminating history through specific examples and a particular emphasis on social and cultural topics. This edition is available in MindTap, an online learning experience that guides students through the course by combining the complete textbook with interactive multimedia, new chapter and unit activities, and study tools that assist instructors in keeping students engaged with the material.

Now with MindTap and updated to reflect today’s political climate, the Eighth Edition of INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS offers a country-by-country approach that allows students to fully examine similarities and differences among countries and within and between political systems. Each chapter offers an analysis of political challenges and changing agendas within countries and provides detailed descriptions and analyses of the politics of individual countries. The Eighth Edition offers a condensed narrative and student-friendly pedagogy such as marginal key terms and focus questions that will help students make meaningful connections and comparisons about the countries presented. INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS, Eighth Edition, consists of 13 country case studies, selected for their significance in terms of the comparative themes and because they provide an interesting sample of types of political regimes, levels of economic development, and geographic regions.

Principles of Economics is the most popular and widely used text in the economics classroom today. Student-accessible text emphasizes the most important concepts without excessive detail. This product provides dozens of applications focusing on the real-world relevance of economics for today’s students through interesting news articles, realistic case studies and engaging problems.

Bring economics to life with rich, practical examples that make concepts clear and intriguing. CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS blends economic expertise and educational insights with comprehensive content, sound instructional design, and extensive print and media teaching tools. The book covers CEE’s (Council for Economic Education) Standards completely and repeatedly. This text includes two chapters covering personal finance, including information on managing money and being a responsible consumer. A wealth of print, video, electronic, and online resources make it simple to address varied learning styles, use formal and informal assessment, and integrate technology where it makes sense to you.

Cacioppo’s Discovering Psychology: The Science of Mind, AP® Edition, 3rd Edition, reflects psychological science in the 21st century and psychology’s rightful place as a hub science—a discipline whose work provides foundational material for many other scientific fields. Psychological science is also inherently interdisciplinary. In a scientific community increasingly dominated by interdisciplinary teams, students will see psychology not as an isolated area of study but as one that integrates a range of knowledge into a true science of mind. The AP Edition, 3rd Edition provides AP®-style questions at the end of each chapter.

A fusion of the full-length and briefer versions that preceded it, Weiten’s PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS, 11th Edition combines a superb thematic organization with practical applications and examples that help students see beyond research to big-picture concepts. Often described as a challenging text that is easy to learn from, the book surveys psychology’s broad range of content while illuminating the process of research and its relationship to application, showing both the unity and diversity of psychology’s subject matter and helping students master the basic concepts and principles of psychology with as little struggle as possible. Weiten’s themes provide unifying threads across chapters that help students to see the connections among different research areas in psychology. A dynamic, teaching-oriented illustration program further enhances these themes. Available with MindTap.

Thoroughly updated with the latest research findings, ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHOLOGY: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS, 6th Edition, presents the foundations of psychology in a manageable, reader-friendly, learning-centric format. Nevid’s writing style speaks directly to students, providing a broad view of psychology and helping them see how knowledge gained from contemporary research applies to everyday problems. Derived from research on memory, learning and textbook pedagogy, the Four E’s of Effective Learning — Engage interest, Encode important concepts, Elaborate meaning and Evaluate progress — are incorporated throughout. Nevid’s unique learning system also integrates the IDEA Model to help students Identify, Describe or Define, Evaluate or Explain and Apply key concepts of psychology. The Sixth Edition features an expanded focus on psychology in the digital world. Available with MindTap.

Kendall’s bestselling SOCIOLOGY IN OUR TIMES, 12th edition, illustrates the relevance of sociology through timely theories, research and examples. Many chapters open with first-person accounts of “lived experiences” students can relate to, providing a framework for learning. The author’s engaging writing style, emphasis on applications and compelling examples further highlight sociology’s relevance to all students. The first to integrate race, class and gender issues, the text is known for its thorough presentation of sociological theory, including contemporary perspectives such as feminism and postmodernism. Emphasizing social/global change and the contemporary world, the new edition covers such current debates as bullying and social media abuse, digital-age methods to increase school attendance, food trucks and the spread of culture, modern slavery and weight bias. Also available: MindTap.