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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 Wildlife Refuges refer to:
 
ANA: Pages 24-25: Population, Land Use and Abuse; pages 40-41: Our Federal Lands; page 50: New England National Areas; pages 60-61: Chesapeake Bay: A Critical Ecosystem; page 65: Middle Atlantic National Areas; page 76: Southeast National Areas; page 86: Great Lakes National Areas; page 96: South Central National Areas; page 107: North Central National Areas; page 119: Four Corners National Areas; page 128: Pacific Southwest National Areas; page 138: Northwest National Areas; page 149: Alaska National Areas; page 154: Hawaii National Areas; page 174: Canada National Areas (for National Wildlife Areas).
AOW: Plate 15: North America Land Use/Land Cover, Environmental Stress.
EYW: Page 72: Biome; page 193: Ecosystem; page 203: Environment; page 274: Habitat; page 551: Vegetation Regions.
GFL: Pages 77-78, 120-121, 158-159, 199-200: Standard 8.
HAUS: Pages 14-15: Living Systems, Changing Balance; pages 16-17: The Natural Heritage Under Stress; pages 108-109: Legacy of the Public Domain.
NGM: John G. Mitchell. “Our Polluted Runoff: Widespread as Rain and Deadly as Poison.” February 1996.
Elizabeth Royte. “On the Brink: Hawaii’s Vanishing Species.” September 1995.
Douglas H. Chadwick. “Dead or Alive: The Endangered Species Act.” March 1995.
John G. Mitchell. “Our National Parks: Legacy at Risk.” October 1994.
Alan Mairson. “The Everglades: Dying for Help.” April 1994.
Richard Conniff. “Federal Lands.” February 1994.
Richard Conniff, William S. Ellis, John G. Mitchell, Michael Parfit. “Water: A Special Edition.” November 1993.
Tom Horton. “Chesapeake Bay—Hanging in the Balance.” June 1993.
John G. Mitchell. “Our Disappearing Wetlands.” October 1992.
Nicole Duplaix. “South Florida Water: Paying the Price.” July 1990.

 
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