2005 IPPY Award Winner! Actively engaging students with 36 science-based, multidisciplinary, hands-on activities, this "Guide" is an award-winning learning tool covering the Missouri Basin's hydrology, geology, geography, tribes, settlement, cities, agriculture, industry, recreation, navigation, plant and animal species, issues, management and stewardship. Its 33-page introduction provides background information about the history and current life of the basin. Further illustrating the watershed's diverse places, peoples and perspectives is its "Pearls and Voices" section. Other unique features include correlations to national standards in the sciences and other disciplines and an in-depth glossary and index. "Bonus!" Includes a 26 x 38" wall map of the Missouri River Watershed which shows tributaries, subbasins, reservations and cities and precipitation and elevation data.