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Standard 8.4.P

8.4.P Summarize the economic changes that emerged in South Carolina and
the U.S....

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Bitter Sweets: Mapping Pineapples, Hospitality and Slavery

Lesson

Grades: 8

This lesson introduces students to historic primary and secondary source documents and geospatial technology to explore nineteenth-century slavery and trade between the Caribbean and United States...

Field to Factory | Palmetto Special

Video

Grades: 5 8

This program is based on an oral history conducted by the New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The subject is a black woman who moved with her family from South Carolina to New Jersey in the...

Six Degrees of the Gilded Age in South Carolina

Lesson

Grades: 8

This activity is based loosely on the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The teacher can choose to place students into five different groups, giving each group a challenge question, or can make this an...

Industrialization | Palmetto Special

Video

Grades: 5 8

The lesson begins at the Wilson Tennis Ball factory in Fountain Inn. Here we see a montage in the process of making tennis balls The host then mentions that there are many other products made in the...

SC Economy | Palmetto Special

Video

Grades: 4 8 12

The lesson begins with a young man making an "economic decision" concerning the purchase of a pair of running shoes. The host defines economics beginning with, "Economics is that branch of the social...

Agricultural Depression | Palmetto Special

Video

Grades: 4 5 8

The opening and closing wraparounds take place by an old abandoned tenant farm house in Pickens County near Clemson University. Here the host establishes the location and story line. The Reenactment...

Industrialization

Video

Grades: 5 8

A dramatic scene follows with William Gregg discussing the virtues of a diversified economy in South Carolina with friends of his. Then he happens upon a young man playing hooky at a pond near the...