About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica. This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly ...

Reducing our aid could open the door for powers such as China and Russia to increase their influence instead, writes Dimy ...

Antarctica is about 13,209,000 sq km (5,100,021 sq miles) and the least-populated continent. It has no countries, but it is home to some of the coldest places on Earth. South America's neighbor ...

Practice globe tossing games with blow-up globes and ask pupils to identify continents and point to North America when they catch it. Older children could identify countries within this continent ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

It reinforces the idea of American exceptionalism, and furthers the increasingly accurate worldwide perception that the U.S.