08-01-2018, 08:04 PM | #41 | |
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* Which is one of four different courses that taught "map reading" when I was in school. The first was social studies in 5th grade, the second was gym in 7th (we went for nature hikes), the third was Air Force JROTC in 9th grade, and the last and most humiliating for the person† who triggered it was my AP European history course in my senior year. † Yes, somehow someone managed to get into AP Euro history in their junior or senior year of high school without having ever learned to read a map. |
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08-01-2018, 09:09 PM | #42 |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Dyslexia
I don't remember having a social studies class in that high school. The closest we had was History.
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08-01-2018, 10:44 PM | #43 | |
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Me I learned map reading in Scouts [both land and sea charts], PE (for orienteering) and Social Studies, I do not remember Science covering it. |
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08-01-2018, 11:06 PM | #44 |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Dyslexia
Certainly when I was in elementary and secondary school there were no courses in anthropology, economics, or sociology. It was geography, history, and political science (called something else, and exclusively American in focus).
As for maps, I discovered atlases in elementary school, in the first few grades, and they were one of the things I fell in love with. I remember in particular reading H.G. Wells's The Science of Life with its maps of Earth with the sea level raised or lowered. . . .
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08-01-2018, 11:09 PM | #45 |
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08-01-2018, 11:24 PM | #46 | |
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Like, map reading and making were taught in my 5th grade social studies and reinforced every history and geography course thereafter. It was only taught again in a high school social sciences class because we had a junior in our class who somehow made it into a college level course without ever learning map reading. And the teacher decided to make sure everyone else knew how to read maps despite everyone else saying "We all learned this like 7 years ago". |
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08-02-2018, 01:42 AM | #47 |
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Small amount of geography in history class, but no option for the others at either high school I attended. At least I remember none being offered.
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08-02-2018, 04:01 AM | #48 | |
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08-02-2018, 07:49 AM | #49 | |
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08-02-2018, 11:15 AM | #50 |
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I just realized that I tend to assume the same.
I remember my brother getting "in trouble" for writing in cursive in first grade after we moved. The new school hadn't gotten to that yet, and American schools hate differences.
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