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The "content" in CKLA is not related to the standards students are supposed to learn in elementary science and social studies at these ages.  The topics in K-2 develop some background for topics that are covered in common core social studies in 4th and 5th grades (Native Americans, American colonies, Christopher Columbus-- all K topics in CKLA). At K-2 it is not developmentally appropriate to cover these topics in a way that encourages critical thinking about government systems in place or how events shaped history.   Similarly in science students in 1st grade are excited to learn about space, but they are not able to grasp the size and distances of the planets or really understand the science involved in astronomy- they learn isolated facts. [/quote]

Facts equal content knowledge.  This is what kids need to learn at young ages.  Elementary students do not have the capacity to think critically about anything yet.  Science and history (I refuse to call it social studies) at this age is about exposure, building excitement and laying down facts that later can be used to "think critically."  That is age appropriate.

Read the Kindergarten Social Studies objectives... totally vacuous.  Part of an educational theory that says kids can only understand things in their own world.[/quote]

Shoving "facts" down kids' throats...of course they don't want to teach our kids critical thinking. The oppressor will never give you the tools to overthrow them.[/quote]

Please stay away from schools, you've done enough damage...[/quote]

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