HERE IS WHAT MY 5TH GRADER IS BEING TAUGHT:
Lesson 1:Migration to the Americas
Social Studies 5 A Unit 1: Early Life, East and West
FROM THE ONLINE LESSON
"Scientists and historians believe
that groups of people traveled eastward from Asia to North America
by crossing the Bering Strait 10,000 to 40,000 years ago."
FROM THE ONLINE MOVIE
(about the Ice Age )
Narrator: "The last full and most severe one
began 45 million years ago."
FROM THE ONLINE LESSON
"What items were found
with the frozen 5,300-year old skeleton?"
FROM THE TEXTBOOK
Social Studies - The United States
by Scott Foresman
PAGE 46"20,000 years ago, during the Ice Age"
PAGE 46
"Many scholars believe... 40,000 to 10,000 years ago"
PAGE 47"about 7,000 years ago"
PAGE 47
Summarize the Lesson
40,000-10,000 years ago
10,000 years ago
7,000 years ago
CONCLUSION:
OTHER THAN THE CAVEAT "scientists and historians believe," NOWHERE IN ANY OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ARE ANY OTHER POSSIBLE DATES CONSIDERED FOR THE ICE AGE, THE AGE OF THE FROZEN SKELETON OR THE JOURNEY AND SETTLEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE. IT IS JUST ASSUMED THAT THESE DATES ARE TRUE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN AGREED UPON BY WHOEVER ARE THE SOURCES OF THIS TEXTBOOK.
OTHER THAN THE CAVEAT "scientists and historians believe," NOWHERE IN ANY OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ARE ANY OTHER POSSIBLE DATES CONSIDERED FOR THE ICE AGE, THE AGE OF THE FROZEN SKELETON OR THE JOURNEY AND SETTLEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE. IT IS JUST ASSUMED THAT THESE DATES ARE TRUE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN AGREED UPON BY WHOEVER ARE THE SOURCES OF THIS TEXTBOOK.
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