Jordan

- A comprehensive series designed to showcase particular features of a country. - Provides maps, timeline, fast facts, charts, and vivid four-color photographs. - Full-colored maps, photos, and interesting sidebars complement the text. - Also included are a timeline, fast facts, and a to find out more section. Curriculum Standards: Grades 5-8 Social Studies Culture: I - Explain how language, literature, the arts, architecture, traditions, beliefs, values, and behaviors contribute to the development and transmissions of culture. Time, Continuity, & Change: II - Identify and use key concepts such as chronology, change, and conflict to explain and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity. People, Places, & Environments: III - Elaborate mental maps of locales, regions, and the world that demonstrate understanding of relative location, direction, size, and shape.Kummer, Patricia K. is the author of 'Jordan', published 2006 under ISBN 9780516248707 and ISBN 0516248707.