Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
Lesson
Grades: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Students will design their own fort and identify its parts using colonial forts from South Carolina as models.
Lesson
Grades: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Rice is the most consumed grain in the world, feeding more than 3 billion people every day. Students will learn about rice’s diversity and trace its history from its domestication in China 12,000...
Lesson
Grades: 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Pottery is one of the most common types of artifacts found in the archaeological record. Students will learn how and why archaeologists study pottery and explore how pottery, along with other objects...
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...
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...
Document
Grades: 4 6 8 9 10
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
Photo
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...
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...
Video
Grades: 4 8
Video
Grades: 4 8
Lesson
Grades: 6, 8
The student will explore and compare how individual elements influence the whole to create a new environment, specifically making the connections between bird migration and the development of the rice...