Global maps are introduced first, then hemispheres, continents and countries. Students learn about world trade, imports, exports and natural resources. History A t the Skinner School, the subject of history includes both natural and political history. In natural history, students begin with the evolution of plant and animal life. They learn that life is in harmony with nature and that it progresses by means of heredity, variation and mutation.
Life depends upon air, water, nourishment and protection.
Life gets three of these resources from the environment. When living things die, they return a portion of these borrowed resources to the earth. By working with evolutionary time-lines, students learn about the earth's creation and development of life forms. They discover the geology stages of this development and compare mankind's time on earth to the age of the earth. T he study of political history is the history of man on the earth.