I know this is a very specific ask to precisely the wrong crowd, but does anyone know of anything I can read about how science curricula in K-12 was developed? I want to know why I learned about rain forests and dinosaurs, but was never taken +

outside to, you know, look at trees and birds and insects. We were never taught how to grow different kinds of plants, which would have been useful. It seems like there was an aversion to ordinary/practical naturalism, and a fixation on more 'exotic' topics. +

I don't feel like I learned a much of interest or use about the natural world until I started birding. I'm also especially interested in how this plays into current conservation efforts.