Charleston Tea Garden | From the Sky

With over 25,000 farms and 4 million acres farmland in South Carolina, agriculture is the number one industry in the state.  Corn, Cotton, and Soybeans are some of the top commodities but there’s only one place in South Carolina that grows tea.  In fact, the Charleston Tea Garden is the only farm in North America were tea is grown and manufactured.  After water, tea is the most consumed beverage on the planet and we’re going to see where it all begins...From the Sky! 

Standards

• 3-5 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the major developments in South Carolina in the late nineteenth and the twentieth century.
  • South Carolina experienced major economic, political, and social changes during the late nineteenth and the twentieth century. To understand the effects of these changes, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following ind...
    • 3-5.1 Summarize the social and economic impact of developments in agriculture, industry and technology, including the creation of Jim Crow laws, the rise and fall of textile markets, and the expansion of the railroad.
• 7-6 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the significant political, economic, geographic, scientific, technological, and cultural changes as well as the advancements that have taken place throughout the world from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present day.
  • Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world’s attention no longer focuses on the tension between superpowers. Although problems rooted in the Middle East have captured the world’s attention more consistently than the majority of ...
    • 7-6.6 Summarize the dangers to the natural environment that are posed by population growth, urbanization, and industrialization, including global influences on the environment and the efforts by citizens and governments to protect the natural environment.
• USHC-4 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the industrial development and the consequences of that development on society and politics during the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.
  • Political democracy depends upon the active participation of individuals working through political and economic-interest groups to protect their welfare. To understand how groups in the past have protected their rights, the student will utilize the kn...
    • USHC-4.4 Explain the impact of industrial growth and business cycles on farmers, workers, immigrants, labor unions, and the Populist movement and the ways that these groups and the government responded to the economic problems caused by industry and bu...

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