Author(s): Jacaranda

Encyclopaedia/Atlas

The renowned Jacaranda Junior Atlas has been an enduring and vital classroom resource and student reference for 15 years. It has now been fully revised, with maps in the new atlas specially designed for clarity and ease of use for middle and upper primary students. The new edition has a very strong emphasis on Australia, with 58 pages being devoted to maps of our nation and information about popular themes such as exploration, government and Indigenous Australians. Features * New relief maps specially developed to suit the needs of middle and upper primary students * Stunning satellite images providing a realistic perspective of the world's continents * Content arranged to take students on a journey from the local through to national, regional and global scales * Six pages devoted to each Australian state and the Northern Territory covering natural and human features, land use and climate as well as regional and capital city case studies * Maps and informative text on significant and iconic Australian places, and how they are protected and cared for. * Natural and human features of places separately mapped for Australia and the continents * Maps placed on facing pages allowing students to see relationships between geographical aspects such as land use and climate * New content such as The Murray-Darling Basin, pre-European Indigenous trade and World Heritage Order a class set (min 25 copies) of the Jacaranda Junior Atlas 2E and receive a FREE Globe of the World for your classroom, which can be used with whiteboard markers to plot exploration routes, symbols and other features. Just quote promotional code GLOBE when ordering.