This fact-filled series can help elementary social studies students learn about the diverse countries and cultures of the world. Correlated directly to the social studies curriculum, each volume includes social, political, geographic, economic, and historic characteristics of the featured country. Primary source images, documents, and artifacts bring the world's unique nations and people into your students' world and offer an invaluable resource for country research and reports. This book on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland offers readers a look at Stonehenge on England's Salisbury Plain, the Magna Carta of 1215, which curbed the monarchy's power, and more. From its majestic Scottish countryside to its stately English architecture to its unrivaled contributions in literature and music, students will be amazed by the fascinating journey into the rich cultural and artistic heritage of this nation of islands.