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Standard 3-5

3-5 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the major developments in South Carolina in the late nineteenth and the twentieth century.

Grade(s): 3

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Title:
Modjeska Monteith Simkins House - Tour
Modjeska Monteith Simkins House - Tour

Document

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

Students will use a video and virtual tour to understand how they are encouraged to organize, resist, and rise up against social injustice.
Charleston Tea Garden Video Questions | From the Sky
Charleston Tea Garden Video Questions | From the Sky

Document

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

Keep your students engaged while watching the Charleston Tea Garden From the Sky video with these video questions. Students are also asked to find two additional facts about Columbia when done!
 Highway 81  | From the Sky
Highway 81 | From the Sky

Video

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

There are over 41,000 miles of road in South Carolina. Like veins in a body’s circulatory system, they connect the busy cities and small towns to each other, each serving a vital role throughout our...
 Charleston Tea Garden  | From the Sky
Charleston Tea Garden | From the Sky

Video

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

With over 25,000 farms and 4 million acres farmland in South Carolina, agriculture is the number one industry in the state. Corn, Cotton, and Soybeans are some of the top commodities but there’s only...
 Modjeska Monteith Simkins House
Modjeska Monteith Simkins House

Video

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

Built between 1890 and 1895, this one-story cottage was home to Modjeska Monteith Simkins, considered "the Matriarch of Civil Rights activists of South Carolina," from 1932 until her death on April 5...
Ruth and the Green Book
Ruth and the Green Book

Lesson

Grades: 3, 5

This lesson introduces students to the difficulties faced by African Americans during the middle twentieth century. Using the book Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, students learn...

Work and Play in South Carolina
Work and Play in South Carolina

Lesson

Grades: 3, 5

Part of the New Deal was the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). President Roosevelt created this group to give employment to many of the young men who found themselves jobless during...

 Carolina Style | Palmetto Special
Carolina Style | Palmetto Special

Video

Grades: 3 4 5

This lesson is a brief survey of the art, architecture, literature and theatre of South Carolina. It opens with a series of skits where "comedic characters" "put down" South Carolina's interest in...
 Earth Day, Part 5 | Project Discovery 5
Earth Day, Part 5 | Project Discovery
Episode 5

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Rudy Mancke and a park ranger answer questions about the Congaree National Park from students during the original broadcast of the Project Discovery Earth Day special. (Part 5)
 Earth Day, Part 10 | Project Discovery  10
Earth Day, Part 10 | Project Discovery
Episode 10

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Some more student questions are answered in the conclusion to Project Discovery's Earth Day special at the Congaree National Park. (Part 10)
 Bloody Sunday | Road Trip
Bloody Sunday | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Civil Rights leaders try to desegregate the most racist capital in the nation, Birmingham, Alabama. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S...
 Civil Rights Organizations | Road Trip
Civil Rights Organizations | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) was the major civil rights organization in South Carolina. Several other organizations such as Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
 Leading the Struggle | Road Trip
Leading the Struggle | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 9 10 11 12

There were several key leaders during the Civil Rights Movement. Despite visible leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and John F. Kennedy, young people played a major role in...
 Work at Mental Hospital | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women 110
Work at Mental Hospital | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women
Episode 110

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Anne Austin Young, Part 10 ​ - Anne Young’s Work at the Mental Hospital Anne gains experience and insight in her time as a doctor at the state Mental Hospital. In a time period when women were...