People utilize, adapt to, and modify the physical environment to meet their needs. They also identify regions based on geographic and human characteristics to help them interpret Earth’s complexity. To understand how people interact with the phy...

Grade(s): 3

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Writer Tom Poland Gets His Kicks on Highway 76
Writer Tom Poland Gets His Kicks on Highway 76

Lesson

In a way, the journey was done for many fine two-lane highways June 29, 1956. That’s when President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, the Interstate Act. Eisenhower, a general to...

S.C. Geography | Conversations on S.C. History
Episode 1

Video

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in S.C. History. SC Geography is discussed in four lessons: Description of the Land of South Carolina 16th Century Travel...
Transportation in SC | Palmetto Special

Video

The lesson deals primarily with the development of roads, railroads, and canals in South Carolina. The program is in a basic documentary form and was done entirely on location. Comparisons are made to...
Earth Day, Part 5 | Project Discovery
Episode 5

Video

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)