Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
Lesson
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
This lesson plan is intended to introduce students to critical cartography, a subfield of geography that recognizes maps as inherently political objects subject to bias and hidden meaning. In this...
Lesson
Grades: 3, 4, 7, 8
Students will learn how maps are important primary resources for studying the past and how archaeologists can use historical maps to locate archaeological sites. This lesson plan covers how maps are...
Lesson
Grades: 4, 6, 8
Students use History in a Nutshell videos Part 1 and Part 2 to trace how tension in the Ohio Valley ignited a wider war, how leadership shifts turned the tide, and how the Treaty of Paris created...
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...
Lesson
Grades: 8
Students build a miniature landscape in a sandbox and use tools to measure elevations at various points. By converting these measurements and coloring a graph, they create a 2D elevation model similar...
Document
Grades: 4 6 8 9 10 Higher Education
Lesson
Grades: 4, 6, 8, 9, 10
Beyond Barbados Part 5- A Cultural Hearth video segment focuses on the rebellions that took place in Barbados and the false “Emancipation” that was presented to enslaved Africans after the rebellions...
Lesson
Grades: 4, 6, 8
Beyond Barbados Part 3- The Barbados Adventures video segment focuses on the growth and wealth of Barbados with sugar cane as the cash crop. It notes that Europeans developed plantations throughout...
Lesson
Grades: 6, 8
Beyond Barbados Part 2- Sweet Success video segment focuses on Europeans establishing Barbados as a colony. There is an emphasis on identifying how the Europeans sought for a cash crop, sugar cane, to...
Video
Grades: 4 6 8 9 10 Higher Education
Video
Grades: 4 8 Higher Education
Video
Grades: 6 8 9 Higher Education
Video
Grades: 6 8 9 10 11 Higher Education
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Grades: 4 6 8 9 10 Higher Education
Lesson
Grades: 4, 6, 8
Look around Charleston, the Barbados-Carolina connection is ever present. How “place”, past and present, changed and molded the connection is explored through various aspects of culture. The mixture...
Lesson
Grades: 4, 6, 8, 9, 10
Historians refer to Barbados as the cultural hearth of the Americas. This cultural hearth resulted in a cultural transference. As demographics changed and power shifted, so did perceptions of “place”...
Lesson
Grades: 4, 6, 8
History never really happens in a vacuum. Barbados was an amalgam of many cultures, which was made even more complicated by the social control of those in power over those enslaved. The clash of...
Video
Grades: 3 4 8
Video
Grades: 3 4 8
Lesson
Grades: 8
Ever wonder what it would have been like to live in the 1700s? How did the settlers hear about our great state of South Carolina? Today, you will begin a five day journey into the past where you will...
Lesson
Grades: 8
Mark Catesby explored the British colonies of North America beginning in 1712 during a visit to his sister in Virginia. Fascinated by the plants and animals that inhabited a landscape filled with both...
Video
Grades: 8
Lesson
Grades: 8
In this lesson students will be learning about the “struggle for power” between the Spanish, French, English, and Native Americans for South Carolina. The teacher will emphasize that each group had...