We Are So Proud!
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard had absolutely no idea of the sheer power and reach of our little blog. But lo and behold, it turns out that the British Examination Board that produces textbooks for school use actually gets their scientific information about animals from none other than the Crabitat!
A new science textbook for schools claims that polar bears eat penguins, even though they live in separate hemispheres.
The book, authorised by one of England's three exam boards, contains other errors, including that African elephants get drunk on rotten fruit, a theory dismissed by academics.
The howlers were found in GCSE books and computer resources produced by the educational publishers Nelson Thornes and endorsed by the AQA board. Teaching packs cost schools £1,700 each.
Peter Cotgreave, the chairman of the Campaign for Science and Engineering, a pressure group lobbying to improve science standards, said: "It is inevitable that mistakes are going to creep in but to say that polar bears and penguins live together is astonishing. It reflects a loss of respect for science."
We're so proud! And they're sooooooooo gullible.
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Polar bears and penguins « Learning through others — December 3, 2006 @ 1:25 am
By steveH, December 3, 2006 @ 2:00 pm
I bet this foolishness isn’t unique to the UK. Sort of like US history books’ contemporary focus on civil rights instead of the development of our country and the patriots who made it happen.