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Standard 3.2.2.ER

3.2.2.ER Identify and analyze the ways people interact with the physical environment in different regions of the state, the country, and the world.

Grade(s): 3

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Archaeo-Tech: Mollusk ID & Coloring Activity

Lesson

Grades: 3, 6

Students learn about mollusks, their characteristics and habitats, and how their shells provide clues to the diet of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived on the South Carolina coast thousands of years...

Archaeo-Tech: Introducing Experimental Archaeology

Lesson

Grades: 3, 6

Students brainstorm examples of artifacts archaeologists might find in prehistoric South Carolina and then analyze photos of real artifacts to understand how archaeologists use them to learn about...

Archaeo-Tech: The Barrier Island

Lesson

Grades: 3, 5, 6, 8

Students build model beaches and use waves to simulate coastal erosion, observing how it disturbs and destroys archaeological sites. They then explore engineering solutions to reduce erosion and...

Lake Jocassee | Carolina Snaps

Video

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

Lake Jocassee is a 75,000-acre reservoir outside of Salem, South Carolina and is considered the jewel of the Appalachian Mountains.

Mann-Simons House Photo Gallery | Let's Go!

Photo

Grades: 4 5 6 8 11

Mann-Simons Partial Family Tree Mann-Simons Family Portraits Case of Excavated Artifacts, Including A Rubber "Bouncy" Ball Photograph of John Lucius Simons, Sr.'s Sons: John Lucius Simons, Jr. (Left)...

Finding Clovis Shorts: Allendale Paleoamerican Expedition | Carolina Stories

Episode 12

Video

Grades: 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Scientists, and Students, and Volunteers! Oh, my!

Finding Clovis Shorts: Topper Tools | Carolina Stories

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Pre-Clovis and Clovis artifacts found at Topper

Finding Clovis Shorts: Clovis Flintknapping | Carolina Stories

Episode 6

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

How were Clovis tools made?

Finding Clovis Shorts: Excavation | Carolina Stories

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Learn how archeologists dig, plot, and catalog artifacts at Topper

Finding Clovis Shorts: Comet Theory | Carolina Stories

Episode 8

Video

Grades: 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

One possible explanation for destruction of the Clovis culture

Finding Clovis Shorts: Pre-Clovis | Carolina Stories

Episode 9

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Were there people at the Topper site before Clovis?

Finding Clovis Shorts: Origins of Clovis Culture | Carolina Stories

Episode 7

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Where did the Clovis people come from?

Finding Clovis Shorts: Clovis | Carolina Stories

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Topper is one of the very best sources for artifacts from the Clovis culture.

Finding Clovis Shorts: Dredging | Carolina Stories

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Innovative technique for extracting Clovis artifacts

Finding Clovis Shorts: Pre-Clovis Flintknapping | Carolina Stories

Episode 10

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Can it be proven that pre-Clovis artifacts found at Topper were really made by humans?

Finding Clovis Shorts: CNN | Carolina Stories

Episode 16

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

May 28, 2001 report on pre-Clovis discoveries

Finding Clovis Shorts: Volunteers | Carolina Stories

Episode 14

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

“Avocational archaeologists” are encouraged to participate in the Allendale Paleoamerican Expedition, which occurs annually in the month of May.

Finding Clovis Shorts: Time Team America | Carolina Stories

Episode 18

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Interview with Graham Dixon, producer of PBS science program Time Team America (2008)

Finding Clovis Shorts: Day at Topper | Carolina Stories

Episode 15

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Camp life as a Topper volunteer

Finding Clovis Shorts: Why Dig? | Carolina Stories

Episode 13

Video

Grades: 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

What’s it like when you get the archaeology “bug”?

Finding Clovis Shorts: Origins of Man | Carolina Stories

Episode 11

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

The search for answers at Topper

Finding Clovis Shorts: Searching for Our Beginnings: Public Archaeology at the Topper Site | Carolina Stories

Episode 19

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Exhibit at USC Salkehatchie

Finding Clovis Shorts | Media Blast | Carolina Stories

Episode 17

Video

Grades: 3 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Media interest in Topper since 2001

South Carolina Forests Contribute Much to the State Landscape, Economy | South Carolina Focus

Audio

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

For 90 years, the South Carolina Forestry Commission has fought fires and advised landowners on how they can best manage the woodlands on their property. According to Forest Management Chief Russell...