The Student Book is available in a blended print and digital format and offers: 100% curriculum alignment, including: Inquiry, Geographical Thinking Concepts, Citizenship, and Spatial Skills. Engaging features such as: Thinking Like a Geographer which introduces the Geographical Thinking Concepts: Interrelationships, Spatial Significance, Geographic Perspective, and Patterns and Trends. Case Studies in every chapter, including 2 National Geographic Case Studies per unit. The Case Studies explore different places around the world and how people are responding to geographical challenges. Heroes in Action which profiles young people from around the world who have taken action to improve conditions for people and the environment.--Publisher's website. Students explore Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability and Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life in Nelson GEO8.--Publisher's website. Trillium List 2015. Approved for use in Ontario schools, September 10, 2015, for grade 8 Social Studies/History and Geography, supporting the curriculum guidelines: The Ontario Curriculum, Social Studies, Grades 1-6; History and Geography, Grades 7-8, 2013 (revised).