Lesson
Grades
- 8
In this lesson students will explore FDR’s New Deal program. They will then put themselves in the position of being strategists for a presidential campaign today. In doing so they will need to...
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Video
Grades
- 3
- 4
The Gullah tradition of creating coiled grass baskets is a craft that has been handed down from generation to generation. Instead of weaving the baskets, a needle made from a spoon handle, bone or...
Audio
Grades
- 3
- 4
Music is another important part of life on the Sea Islands. Most of the Gullah music is found in religious practices. Although spirituals had a Christian message, they were heartfelt expressions of...
Document
Grades
- Pre K
- Kindergarten
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Gullah traditions are the customs, beliefs and ways of life that have been passed down among Sea Island families. Making sweetgrass baskets, quilting, and knitting fishing nets are a few of the crafts...
Photo
Grades
- Pre K
- Kindergarten
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Gullah communities are located where enslaved Africans once lived and worked on Sea Island plantations that were owned by American colonists. Native Americans were also part of these communities. The...
Lesson
Grades
- 8
The students will be able to create either a free verse poem or journal entry as if they were a freed man during the Civil War Reconstruction Period in order to explain life in SC based on political...
Document
Grades
- Kindergarten
- 1
- 2
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- 4
From West Africa During the late 1600s, English settlers in the new colonies needed more workers to farm thousands of acres of land on Sea Island plantations. Although some of the workers were Native...
Video
Grades
- 4
- 8
This program is about Grace and Rachel Martin, two sisters-in-law living alone in the South Carolina back country who waylaid a British Courier with valuable papers by dressing up as colonial men...
Video
Grades
- 3
- 4
- 5
Dr. Anne Austin Young fought the norm that women could not be at the top of their college class nor become a medical doctor. Anne was one of the first female doctors in South Carolina to practice...
Video
Grades
- 3
- 4
- 5
Mary Gordon Ellis was the first female to be elected to the South Carolina Legislature. This drama depicts her life from the challenges of being the school superintendent of Jasper County Schools...