Journey Across Time, Early Ages, is an all new middle school world history program organized chronologically from the first humans and ancient civilizations to the American Revolution. Co-authored by National Geographic and Jackson Spielvogel, Journey Across Time's engaging narrative and outstanding visuals transports students back in time. As Co-Author, National Geographic Society ensures that students understand the influence of geography on historical events. Together the authors take students on a Journey Across Time. It is a standards-based program with important geography skills embedded in every lesson. The story of history unfolds with beautiful maps, custom artwork, artifacts, visuals, and compelling narrative to transport students to the civilizations that came before and to make connections to today. A goal of the program is to address teachers concerns about students ability to read and comprehend informational text and to help meet the mandates of No Child Left Behind. These concerns are addressed in Reading Social Studies skills embedded in every chapter to improve reading skills and comprehension. Students learn and practice the skills they need to become independent learners. Foldables, Main Ideas, Reading Focus, and Reading Checks assist students to become independent readers. The engaging timelines, maps, and graphics provide the visual appeal to keep students attention focused and aid in comprehension skills. The reading support in the student text and teacher edition make reading in the content area skill easy to incorporate. The Standardized Test Practice, Skills Handbook, Geography Handbook, Reading Handbook, Primary Source and Documents Library prepare students for high stakes tests. Culminating Activities evaluate student understanding. Additional support for independent learning can be found at the book s web site jat.glencoe.com . Students access a collection of online study tools and activities to enhance their study of world history. New videos, software, and other media provide additional opportunities for students to learn about the world. Journey Across Time addresses the needs of each student to understand the past and make connection to the world today. Journey Across Time Early Ages is available in a full volume and also as Course 1 (7000 B.C.-800 A.D.) and Course 2 (500 A.D.-1750 A.D.).