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This mini-unit helps students analyze perspectives over three lessons. They start by identifying perspectives, then use evidence to support claims, and finally compare viewpoints. The unit ends with a...
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The year 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power station in Ukraine. The Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986, remains the worst nuclear accident...
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Mere days after the explosion at the Chernobyl power station, a grim discovery was made: the molten Uranium fuel was burning through the concrete flooring beneath reactor #4. About 20 million liters...
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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...
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Join Andrew as he takes viewers to look at a peculiar item in the Dr. Gabriel Manigault Collection at the Charleston Museum: a bronze cat case from the Ptolemaic period which once contained a...
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This ancient Egyptian cat case may have at one point housed a mummified cat. It is constructed out of bronze and dates back to Egypt's Ptolemaic era - around 300 B.C.
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Check out a ghost from the Second World War, once lost, but now has a home at Owens Field Airport in Columbia, South Carolina. This B-25C is the only known intact aircraft remaining from the fleet...
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A Christmas miracle could not have been more needed in the year 1968. With the Vietnam War at its height, race relations reaching a boiling point in the U.S., and the assassinations of Dr. Martin...
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Where did the Halloween tradition of carving faces into pumpkins and lighting them up come from? This custom stems from the old European legend of "Stingy Jack" or "Jack of the Lantern". In the tale...
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Through a bizarre twist in history, the Catholic Church contributed just as much as Pagans did to the Halloween we know today! In the Catholic Church's early years, missionaries journeyed out to...