The World Today

This exciting student textbook presents a contemporary global look at human geography. The World Today: Its People and Places connects your students to different cultures and geographical areas and helps them develop a sense of global awareness and responsible citizenship.This engaging textbook includes unique and interesting features designed to help your students become geographically literate. Explore the world with your students using:hundreds of illustrations and stunning photographs of people and placesdetailed maps, charts, and graphsquotations from contemporary international and Canadian public figureshundreds of glossary terms conveniently highlighted in the textguiding questions; concluding and summary commentsSpecial-interest icons that appear throughout the textbook guide your students to further learning adventures, discussion topics, media investigations, opportunities for developing social studies skills, informative Internet sites, and much more. Recommended by Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth as a Manitoba grade 7 social studies learning resource.