We're a home schooling family.We had to have a globe to support geography and social studies.This is a great 12" globe. The legends are easily readable and the bright colors make it easy to determine political (state and national) boundaries without even reading the legends. It's really a first class teaching tool for the children, and I use it all of the time when reading articles on modern geopolitical events. I gave a second to one of my church elders as a gift so he could use it to follow geopolitical events, too.