1/3 Of Millennials Not Sure If Earth Is Round

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A Third Of Millennials Aren’t Sure The Earth Is Round, Survey Finds

CBS Local — A new survey has found that a third of young millennials in the U.S. aren’t convinced the Earth is actually round. The national poll reveals that 18 to 24-year-olds are the largest group in the country who refuse to accept the scientific facts of the world’s shape.

... Nine percent of young adults answered that they have “always believed” the planet was flat.

A Third Of Millennials Aren’t Sure The Earth Is Round, Survey Finds « CBS Pittsburgh

 

[alevin]

horrifying. In 5th grade science, we used simple demo using an orange and a couple other balls and a light (I think), moved them around each other to understand relationship between sun, moon, earth, in terms of sunrise, sunset, eclipse, etc. simple visual tools to understand what we see in the bigger world.