Shes 8 a bit too young for anything more complicated than cells and animals much less climate.
Shes 8 a bit too young for anything more complicated than cells and animals much less climate.
Damn those farmers and their agriculture!!
Sure, climate change should be taught...,,,at an age where they will really comprehend it's impact.
Teaching climate change in first or second grade is like teaching alegebra without having taught students basic math.
The angst comes from, in my opinion, those folks out there who want to start the "western culture is bad" indocrination as early as possible.
For starters, we don't teach self hate in schools. We don't teach slavery or the treatment of Indians to promote self hatred, we teach them because whitewashing or ignoring bad things that have happened is unacceptable. It's the same for climate change. 99% of the people who accept Climate Change couldn't give a rat's ass whether people hate themselves or not, because frankly it's not productive and certainly doesn't help the fix the problem.
This belongs in an earth sciences class in late middle school through mid high school. And it would be in a science class, and in science classes there won't be any preaching of how you should feel about yourself because that's wholly irrelevant.
The "genuine problem" as you put it, is the tampering of data that seems to be quite popular among people to support the "evil climate change humans are forcing on helpless mother earth" story that makes fools, like this "scientist mom" soooo worried that "omg this political fulcrum, I mean climate change, isn't being taught to my eight year old?????" Better write a dumb article so someone can post a silly click-bait post on mmochampion!
Some of you are asserting that the only way to teach is to teach at a very specialized level. I imagine that education has been defunded such that they no longer have them, but when I was in elementary school, we had a greenhouse. Welcome to an introduction to chemistry, biology, and "climate change".
As I said, however, climate change also belongs in the context of history. This isn't the first time civilizations have been dramatically impacted by environmental factors; so understanding climate change, and why it is bad, is absolutely crucial to understanding that human agency can often be self-defeating.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Even though I believe in man-made climate change, I don't consider the exclusion of the concept in a third-grader's textbook an issue. This is a concept that should be introduced in higher level science courses, perhaps specifically an environmental science course, where it can be explored in much depth and detail.
I just don't know where it would fit in with the current state of history education. It's not a US centric problem, and we generally don't cover much past WWII anyway. World history is already stretched pretty thin given the amount of stuff they have to cover. Even AP world history was like a pu pu platter. A little sampling of everything, depth free.