Sesame Street has always served up garbage. When I was a kid, my older brother got a beautiful Zeiss biological microscope. He had prepared slides of bacteria, and learned how to use biological stains, a microtome and other techniques. He showed me living unicellular creatures living in a ditch by our house. That exposure got me into science while my brother eventually became an attorney, go figure. Counting to eleven with a stuffed animal isn’t education, it’s dumbing down.
Well, given that Sesame Street's target audience starts at 3-years-old...
Now Schools of Education teach HOW to teach.
“Conveniently” the Internet has many sites with lesson plans.
Buyer beware.
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/lesson/?ar_a=1