Lesson
Grades
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In this activity students will learn about the moon and the Apollo 16 mission by playing a game that helps Charles Duke in his flight to the moon. The activity uses information from the Hall of Fame...
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Standard 8-7
8-7 - The student will demonstrate an understanding of the impact on South Carolina of significant events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2011
Lesson
Grades
- 8
Students have studied the Fifteenth Amendment, which was supposed to have granted African-American male citizens the right to vote, as well as the Nineteenth Amendment which expanded voting rights to...
Lesson
Grades
- 8
Students will explore information regarding the Orangeburg Massacre and research other Civil Rights Era movements as they focus on the Essential Question. See below.
Lesson
Grades
- 8
With the exception of America’s indigenous population of Native Americans, the United States of America was populated by immigrants from different parts of the world. Each immigrant group became...
Video
Grades
- 3
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Mary Gordon Ellis was the first female to be elected to the South Carolina Legislature. This drama depicts her life from the challenges of being the school superintendent of Jasper County Schools...
Photo
Grades
- 6
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Henry Smith, a victim of Orangeburg Massacre. Photo courtesy of Cecil Williams.
Photo
Grades
- 6
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In 1968, Sellers was then a student at Harvard University. He was visiting Orangeburg as a recruiter for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). On the night of February eighth, he...
Photo
Grades
- 6
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Delano Middleton, a victim of Orangeburg Massacre
Photo
Grades
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Governor Robert McNair responded to student demonstrations to desegregate the All-Star Bowling Alley by sending additional law enforcement: National Guardsmen, State Law Enforcement Division (SLED)...
Photo
Grades
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Samuel Hammond, Jr., a victim of Orangeburg Massacre was a 20 year old student attending South Carolina State College. Photo courtesy of Cecil Williams.
Photo
Grades
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This building, built in 1901, was occupied by McCrory's Five & Dime from 1937 to 1997. On February 12, 1960, black students from Friendship Jr. College in Rock Hill were denied service at the McCrory...
Photo
Grades
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South Carolina State University was founded in 1896 as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural, & Mechanical College of S.C., with its origins in the Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890...
Video
Grades
- 3
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Episode
9
Understanding education and what can be learned at the Congaree National Park. (Part 9)
Video
Grades
- 3
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Episode
5
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)
Video
Grades
- 3
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Episode
3
Rudy Mancke speaks with a park ranger about Congaree National Park and its history. (Part 3)
Video
Grades
- 3
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Episode
6
A look at the wildlife and features of the Congaree National Park. (Part 6)
Video
Grades
- 3
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Episode
10
Some more student questions are answered in the conclusion to Project Discovery's Earth Day special at the Congaree National Park. (Part 10)
Video
Grades
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Episode
1
Project Discovery celebrates Earth Day with a program hosted at the Congaree National Park. (Part 1)
Video
Grades
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Episode
4
The conclusion to the program. Dean Livingston, the former editor of the Orangeburg Times & Democrat, discusses the difficulty that he and Kent Krell of the Associated Press had in putting the story...
Video
Grades
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Episode
3
A look at the events of Wednesday Feb. 7 and Thursday, Feb. 8, 1968 during the Tragedy at Orangeburg. On Wednesday morning, students sought to obtain a permit to march in protest. The City...
Video
Grades
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Episode
2
A look at the timeline of the Orangeburg Massacre: Monday, February 5, 1968. Following a wave of campus protests over signs of racial inequity, students, frustrated by months of ineffective...
Video
Grades
- 5
Episode
1
Part 1 of Tragedy at Orangeburg: 25 Years Later, an introduction to the events in Orangeburg in 1968. (Documentary produced in 1993 by Beryl Dakers of South Carolina ETV.) Two reporters, Jack Bass and...
Video
Grades
- 6
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Episode
4
Part 4 of Project Discovery's look at the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary.
Video
Grades
- 6
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Episode
2
Part 2 of Project Discovery's look at the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary.