When do most kids start learning about climate change?
I'm writing a paper on encouraging education on the subject to begin at an early age, through toys, etc both home and in the classroom and was wondering when most kids begin learning even the fundamentals of climate change at school? Is it different in the US than in other countries? Is there already a movement towards encouraging this? Any information would be helpful, thanks.
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Answer by Daniel
All of my kids and my friends' kids' learned about it in 4th grade.
What do you think? Answer below!
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Where I’m located, in Canada, we separate dry and wet garbage in blue and green bags. As soon as kids can talk and understand, they are taught about the separation and why we do it. So from a very young age..
i would argue for middle school.
the science behind it is not easy to understand.
and i’m not sure that teaching political views as science are a good thing.
i don’t advocate it for evolution.
and i don’t advocate it for global warming.
i do understand the problem.
and i do understand that showing receding glaciers is reasonable.
but after that, the science behind the problem is a bit more than a 4th grader can understand.
and i don’t want to teach science as a set of beliefs.
doesn’t matter whether i like, or dislike, those “beliefs”.
When liberal propagandists start brainwashing them.
Little children are the best targets, because other people think.
I see you’re a brainwasher wannabe…
Don’t practice in Island County, Washington schools, I watch for that kind of nonsense here.
2nd grade
You will run into the same problems as teaching evolution and sex education.
Currently climate change is not a solid fact as far as the cause is concerned. What you are advocating is pushing what is currently a political opinion on children and many will consider it propaganda and brain washing.
Many people do not agree with many global warming causes, so how do you present that to a child in a neutral manner is going to be your challenge?
See this scares me JTOWN. I see no problem with teaching kids about AGW in school. I do have a problem with them teaching kids that this is 100% proven. They cant teach evolution in school, but, evolution is about 99.99999% proven. There actually is a real consensus by scientists that evolution is real, unlike that made up consensus of AGW. WHy should they teach kids that AGW is 100% true, when we know darn well its not 100% proven.
I would bet you $ 1000 that if you chose 1000 random scientists and ask them this 1 question “If you were to bet everything you had, would you put everything on evolution being fact or AGW being fact?” every one of those scientists would put it on evolution.
Now, take in account all the scientists who think they have proof that AGW isnt true, then ask yourself, should kids be taught this in school as if it were a fact?
After you think about all the things I just said, what will happen if they prove AGW is not happening and humans have absolutely no control over the climate. How do you think that will affect our children who could be our future scientists?
Thats a real serious question the politicians who make kids learn this in school need to ask themselves.,