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Trust me, in bad public education in the UK the map is simply presented. You cover the concept of how to draw the map but if the teacher used the word "protecti
by rob_c 4y ago
Trust me, in bad public education in the UK the map is simply presented. You cover the concept of how to draw the map but if the teacher used the word "protection" it causes eyes to gloss over...
Sounds like you had a good education my lucky friend and I hope it serves you well. I think the closest I saw was historical map putting Britain at the center of a big red empire before skipping several hundred years to cover Vietnam because the syllabus said we had to.
- dvfjsdhgfv 4y agoBut didn't you guys have globes back then? It was the main object in our geography classroom.
- ThePadawan 4y agoGerman here - It's my understanding that in the US, classes rotate through rooms assigned to subjects (e.g. you go to your next class to the geography room). In Germany, subjects rotate through classes (e.g. 9th grade would have an assigned room, and the geography teacher would show up for the next lesson). So personally, I don't think I ever saw a geography teacher carry around a globe, nor talk about projections. I feel like I learned about it reading XKCD 10 years later.
- MichaelCollins 4y ago> It's my understanding that in the US, classes rotate through rooms assigned to subjects (e.g. you go to your next class to the geography room). This is true after 4th grade, but 1st through 4th usually have kids learning every regular subject from a single teacher in a single classroom. Of course there are many states and even more school districts, and it's very possible that some of them do it differently.
- michaelgrafl 4y agoAustrian here. We too have a single teacher from first to forth class, with the exception of religion and sometimes PE. But I don't think that's the age to learn about map projections. My oldest child just finished first grade though, so I'll keep an eye open.
- ThePadawan 4y agoAh yes, same here. At that age, though, we didn't have Geography, we simply had what I will call Science Class (for the Germans: This was Bavaria, so it's hilariously called "Heimat- und Sachunterricht" now), and I have no recollection what that covered. I think it was closer to how bees pollinate plants. Looking at the syllabus for my state now (https://www.lehrplanplus.bayern.de/fachlehrplan/grundschule/4/hsu https://www.lehrplanplus.bayern.de/fachlehrplan/grundschule/...), the most advanced world map-related topic in elementary school is something like Students - learn how to read scale on a map - understand where their home is on a map and in which state and country and on which continent it is. Using their crappy search function, I don't get any results for map projections, Mercator, etc. at all, even further down the road. (Note: I'm aware that Bavaria is known for being very centered on itself. This might be a large cause for this.)
- bombcar 4y agoGrade school didn’t rotate for me, high school the kids moved classes. Somewhere in there we learned about projections (many were the “split globe” ones).
- thayne 4y agoElementary school (usually up through 5th grade) in the US usually has one classroom and one teacher for most subjects. All of my elementary school classrooms had at least one globe.
- rob_c 4y agoGlobes, no that's too close to a football and can be kicked or rolled out of the classroom... I wish I were joking but hey that's the 90s for you
- mr_toad 4y agoPeople had globes back when Britain actually had an empire. Mercator actually made many himself.