• Age: 12 to 13
• Grade: 7

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 places
• detailed maps, charts, and graphs
• quotations from contemporary international and Canadian public figures
• hundreds of glossary terms conveniently highlighted in the text
• guiding questions; concluding and summary comments

Special-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.

Linda Connor is a teacher and department head for social studies and English at Gray Academy. She has taught at the junior-high and senior-high levels for over 30 years. She has also been a dance teacher and choreographer for 28 years. She is a member of the Grade 11 Canadian History Development Team and the Standing Committee for Social Studies, and has worked on the Grade 9 Foundation for Implementation document for the Manitoba Department of Education, Citizenship and Youth. She has taught at the Summer Institute for Social Studies, and has given many in-services for Special Area Groups (SAG) conferences in social studies, and divisional in-services across Manitoba. Linda is a co-author of several books, the past editor for ManACE Journal (Manitoba Association for Computer Educators) and editor for MSSTA Journal (Manitoba Social Science Teachers' Association).

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William Norton, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba. He previously taught at Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa), State University of New York College at Buffalo (USA), Sheffield University (England), and Memorial University at Cornerbrook in Newfoundland. He has been Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne (Australia), and served as the invited Paul F. Sharpe lecturer at the Comparative Frontier Studies Conference, University of Oklahoma (Norman, USA). William’s principal teaching and research interests are in Cultural and Social Geography, Historical Geography, History and Methodology of Geography, Geographic Education, and the Geography of Canada.

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Michele has been published in the Winnipeg Free Press, The Banner, and Geez magazine. Other writings include Hunger in a World of Abundance: A Study Guide, and Refugees and Exiles: A Canadian Perspective. She is currently writing a history of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and ghost-writing a memoir. Michele’s areas of expertise include food and justice issues, social concerns, Canadian history, and freelance recipe development. She is a member of the Manitoba Writer’s Guild.

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