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The Geography Library

To support In Your Classroom, we suggest that you use a set of resources, a basic geography library. These resources are Geography for Life: National Geography Standards 1994; three National Geographic Society atlases; an encyclopedia; a school text; and the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine.
 

ANA National Geographic Society. Atlas of North America: Space-Age Portrait of a Continent. 1985.
AOW National Geographic Society. National Geographic Atlas of the World, Revised 6th Edition. 1995.
EYW National Geographic Society. Exploring Your World: The Adventure of Geography. 1993.
GFL Geography Education Standards Project. Geography for Life: National Geography Standards 1994. 1994.
GWP Boehm, Richard G., David G. Armstrong and Francis P. Hunkins. Geography: The World and Its People. 1996.
HAUS National Geographic Society. Historical Atlas of the United States. 1993.
NGM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine.
 
To support teaching of Discovering Mexico refer to:
 
ANA: Pages 176-177: Mexico’s Baja California; pages 178-179: Mexico and Central America; page 183: Mexico country profile; pages 184-185: Mexico Leads the Way; page 207: Mexico City.
AOW: Page 8: World Population; page 15: Geography of North America, page 16: North America, Physical; page 17: North America, Political; page 35: Mexico and Central America; page 123: Mexico, country profile and flag.
EYW: Page 91: Census; page 193: Emigration; page 283: Immigration; pages 412-427: Population.
GWP: Pages 60-64: Population and Demography; pages 152-173: Mexico; page 302: Reading a Population Map; pages 316-317: Population: Building a Corny Map.
GFL: Pages 79-82, 122-123, 160-161, 201-202: Standard 9.
HAUS: Pages 62-63: Portrait of an Aging Nation: Leafing Through the Family Album (U.S. demographics).
NGM: Mexico: A Special Issue. August 1996.
Richard Coniff. “Tex-Mex Border.” February 1996.
Priit Vesilind. “The Sonoran Desert.” September 1994.
 
For a comprehensive search of the Society’s publications, go to the NGS Publications Index. For other references, see the Mexico Bibliography.

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