Grade(s): 9
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
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Part 1: Collect Oral Histories – 15 minutes Give your students a week to interview an older person about their relationship to one or several natural, cultural, or historic landmarks in their...
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Part 1: Create Your Own Appeal – 45 minutes Students will begin to think critically about issues relating to the conservation and preservation of places that have natural, cultural, or historic value...
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Gullah is the blending of all the cultures that came together during that horrible time in human history called the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The connection between Barbados and South Carolina is...
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The success of Barbados, Carolina, America, the New World for that matter is coterminous with slavery. The labor, the technology, the ingenuity, and the culture that supported this global economy is...
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Reconstruction 360 is built on a 360 degree video platform that features a reenactment set on a farm in 1865. The reenactment was shot at Freewoods Farm, a living farm museum in the Freewoods...
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The 1920s was a prosperous time for Columbia. The city experienced a cultural renaissance, even though the rural areas were feeling early pings of the oncoming depression. Dance clubs for both Whites...
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Sitting on the Congaree River, Columbia, South Carolina has a rich, diverse, and celebrated history. Columbia was founded on what was once a plantation owned by Colonel Thomas Taylor. The “back...
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Clovis artifacts are found across North America about 13,000 plus or minus 100 years ago. It's a remarkable cultural tradition. Where did the Clovis people come from? Archeology textbooks say the...
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As the archeologists dig, they're going back in time. Breaking through the plow zone at Topper, they find stone artifacts from the Woodland period, from around 1,000 AD all the way back to 1,000 BC...
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In 2008, the Catawba River was named the most endangered river in the United States by the advocacy group American Rivers. In this program, The Big Picture looks at the preservation of this river and...