Lesson Overview
Students will design their own fort and identify its parts using colonial forts from South Carolina as models.
Essential Question
What were the strategic, cultural, and economic reasons behind the construction of colonial forts in South Carolina, and how did their design reflect the military threats of the time?
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Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
· Build Your Own Fort Handout
· Blank Paper
· Pencils, color pencils, markers, or crayons
· Rulers
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- De.C Connecting - I can relate artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.
- De.C Connecting - I can relate artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.
- De.C Connecting - I can relate artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.
- 3.5.1.HS Investigate and explain the economic, social, and political motivations behind human exploration of Earth.
- 4.1.CO Compare the interactions among cultural groups as a result of European colonization.
- 4.1.CE Identify the effects of changing economic systems on the diverse populations in British North America.
- 4.1.CX Contextualize the experience of Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans in South Carolina.
- 4.1.CC Identify patterns of change and continuity in the development of economic systems in British North America.
- 4.1.E Analyze multiple perspectives on the economic, political, and social developments of British North America and South Carolina.
- 6.3.CO Compare European motivations for exploration and settlement.
- 6.3.CX Contextualize the experience of indigenous peoples due to expansion and the conflict that arose from it.
- 8.1.P Summarize major events in the development of South Carolina which impacted the economic, political, and social structure of the colony.
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Lesson Partners: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources