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Standard 1

1 Literacy Skills for Social Studies

Grade(s): 4, 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

The Colors of Earth: Making Paint from Plants: Kristy Bishop | ABC Lessons | Arts Grow SC Resources

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Humans have been making paints and inks from nature for millennia. Kristy Bishop will demonstrate how to make lake pigments and turn them into paint. A lake is a pigment that has been extracted from a...

Charleston Tea Garden Video Questions and Activity | From the Sky

Document

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

In this activity, students are engaged with questions about the Charleston Tea Garden and then assigned research about tea products in South Carolina.

Highway 81 Student Activity | From the Sky

Document

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In this engaging activity, students conduct research and have the opportunity to use their geography skills by creating a map!

Gilda Cobb-Hunter - Video Questions Part 1 | SC African American History Calendar (2021)

Episode 3

Document

Grades: 8 9 10 11 12

Video questions are a great way to keep students engaged. Use these video questions for students to stay focused on the main points made in this video.

Gilda Cobb-Hunter, Part 1 | SC African American History Calendar

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter Discusses Getting into Politics Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter has served in the South Carolina State House of Representatives since 1992. She is the first African...

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Art, Music, History, Foods and Traditions of Latin-Hispanic Cultures!

Lesson

Grades: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Learn how the holiday of Cinco de Mayo began, and celebrate by creating Mexican folk art paintings or drawings, discussing your favorite Hispanic foods, learning about a famous Mexican artist, listen...

Designing a Career in Architecture

Lesson

Grades: 6, 9, 10, 11, 12

This lesson provides students with views of the different areas in which an architect may work, depending on the focus of their interests and training. If a student is comfortable with math and...

The "Buffalo Soldiers": Contributions of the first African-American soldiers in the U.S. Army

Lesson

Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

In this lesson, students will learn the history of this group of patriotic, but little-known African American soldiers that were organized in the mid-1800s, right after the Civil War. Two different...

Magnetic Currency with Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe

Lesson

Grades: 8

In Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, Cricket uses a doogaloo to open the treasure box. Doogaloos, also known as scrip, were coins created to be used as currency in some mill towns. Students will use...

Using Historical Markers to Document People, Places, and Events

Lesson

Grades: 6, 8

In this lesson, students will research, design, and write the narrative for a historical marker. First, they will observe historical markers across the United States. Then, they will focus on markers...

Homecoming: Leo Twiggs' Art | Art of Jonathan Green and Leo Twiggs | Carolina Stories

Episode 6

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Leo Twiggs has certain recurring themes in his work. Twiggs has a series called the Hurricane Hugo series. Twiggs states, "The hurricane series became more than just a series about the wind. When I...