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http://www.swiss-miss.com/2012/05/so...here.htmlthere are in fact different models being taught around the world. The seven-continent model is usually taught in China, India and most English-speaking countries. The six-continent combined-Eurasia model is sometimes preferred in the former states of the USSR and Japan. The six-continent combined-America model is taught in Latin America and in some parts of Europe including Greece, Portugal and Spain.
Land Mass--- Nope it's a MASS of ICE.. and when melted there will be NADDA.. Look at maps going back decades.. the Arctic and Antartica Polar Caps has shrunk exponentially... Sure some adventurers go up there.. BUT there's absolutely NO land useable much less liveable by regular folks ( Eskimo's even moved onwards) since I can remember. It's BARREN Mass that cannot be used for anything to sustain LIFE..Wildlife can since they live on food sourced under that ice!! ...
Climate change has altered Polar caps for many many decades.. and not surprised some wishing to denying Polar Ice area's has shrunk.. BUT puleese... Geography appointed naming Continents keeping things simplified.. It's nothing more than re-writing history! North America includes Canada and USA 2 large land masses. Why would the Arctic or Antartica be considered inhabitable Continents? Only people who exist up there are explorers Part time or Environmentalists doing samplings or hostile Countries trying to invade across such uninhabited ice scape to invade... Thus Canada does have a defence set up there ...
I do think we are getting way off the OP topic tho... The complaint was schools are rescheduling Science and Social Studies?? I didn't catch at what grade level? I didn't even start such courses until at least grade 5.. SO digressing to battle of Continents seems rather off topic as to the OP question...
I am an oceanographer, as is my daughter, who has been to Antarctica twice now for research. Antarctica is not only a continent, it is the largest one, with a landmass under its glaciers, larger than Eurasia.
This fact, has nothing to do with climate change denial, it is simply fact. Before Antarctica shifted via plate tectonics to its current position, it was covered with forests and had abundant wildlife. All proven by its abundant fossil record preserved in its geologic layers of its LANDMASS.
Contrast this to ththe arctic, which is truly an ice cap, and has no land beneath it.
You appear to be back pedaling and implying you meant "useable" land which is not now nor ever been a part of the continent definition.
How many millions of high school graduates could not explain what NET WORTH is over the last 50 years if they had been asked? Oh yeah, we don't know. They weren't tested on that.
Of course if educators suggested making it mandatory now it would seem kind of strange after not doing it for decades.
We need workers ignorant enough to buy cars designed to become obsolete. It's good for the economy.
This is part of the high school econ class I teach.
What most do want is when creation comes up in science class, and it will, it's treated with respect for others beliefs and not the derision as shown in your post.
Beliefs don't deserve respect. Maybe they shouldn't be derided but it's perfectly acceptable for the teacher to tell the student that a science class isn't the place to discuss religion.
This is part of the high school econ class I teach.
Isn't it amazing how many of the education "experts" who post here and claim that "___________ isn't taught" in high school turn out to be wrong so often, like 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time?
This extended argument some of you are in about how many continents there are is an excellent example of how students are often taught information that is of little or no use, as compared to being taught things such as (but not limited to) critical thinking skills. Even as a former science teacher who had a minor in geography in college, I fail to see anything important about the number of continents, other than as a point of information. Now if you were talking about the number of continental plates, okay, that's significant information because it affects things such as earthquakes, volcanoes, sea floor spreading, etc. But as to the number of continents...I guess maybe it's just a minor part of cultural literacy...at best.
I found out after talking to my friend who is our local middle school social studies teacher, she told me the fifth graders coming up don't know that there are seven continents let alone the names of those continents.
She told me the curriculum maker is making kids do these writing journals which somehow fulfill the standards for science and social studies. But if you are a kid who is not good at reading and writing you are out of luck.
How can a public school stop teaching science and social studies? How is this possible? Is this what our country has come to?
The saddest part in your post is that fifth graders can't read or write very well.
I am an oceanographer, as is my daughter, who has been to Antarctica twice now for research. Antarctica is not only a continent, it is the largest one, with a landmass under its glaciers, larger than Eurasia.
Antarctica is the 3rd smallest of the 7 continents in terms of land area.
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