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In this lesson, students will create a web design to chart the effects of tourism on South Carolina. Standard: 8-7.2
In this lesson students analyze documents that explore the untold lives of Free Blacks in Antebellum South Carolina. Standard: 8-1.4
Contains four lesson plans, all written by Melanie Johson from the Carolina Center for Inquiry in Columbia, SC, that explore the role of African-Americans in media both past and present using newsfilm clips from the collection African Americans Seen Through the Eyes of the Newsreel Cameraman.
In this lesson students evaluate the damage caused by the Charleston Earthquake of 1886 through photographic evidence. From the point of view of a South Carolina farmer, students devise a plan of action allowing them to participate in history instead of just listening to it. Standard: 8-5.5
This collection of lesson plans, written by Melanie Johnson of the Carolina Center of Inquiry in Columbia, SC, uses primary sources to teach students how to use, analyze, and assess primary source documents. Standard: 4.4
In this lesson students will analyze and explain one of the social effects of expansion on Native Americans. Standard: 5-2.5
In this lesson students will examine the events surrounding the Civil Rights movement and the Briggs v. Elliot case by analyzing a speech written by the late Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine. Standard: 8-7.4
In this lesson, students create a political cartoon after reading about John C. Calhoun’s “Strange Dream.” Standard: 8-3.2
This lesson is designed to give students an introduction and an understanding of the conditions of the different social classes in the Antebellum South. Students will identify the various social classes and compare them. Standard: 3-4.1
In this lesson students will analyze a photograph then write a paragraph to explain the initial interaction between Europeans and Native Americans. Standard: 3-2.5
In this lesson students research the South Carolina Newspapers collection to create a timeline of important 20th century events. Standard: 8-6
For this lesson, students will be using excerpts from Charles Crosland’s Reminiscences of the Sixties 9. This lesson seeks to test the students’ ability to use prior knowledge to draw inferences from accounts of specific events, as well as gain perspective from those who lived through them. The goal is for students to gain a sense of the daily life of soldiers and citizens charged with protecting Charleston. Standard: 8-3.5
This lesson plan, written by John McCormack from Hammond School in Columbia, SC, uses a primary source, Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, as an aid in the discussion of her life and the significance of her work. The students should build a familiarity with the navigation of online documents as well as an appreciation of the earliest contributions of African-Americans to the intellectual history of the United States. Grade Level: 10-12
In this lesson students work in cooperative learning groups to study pictures and determine the physical and human characteristics for one of the six geographic regions. They become experts‖ on their region and create a visual product to teach others. Standard: 3-1.3
Students in this lesson work to explain the effects of the Civil War on South Carolina’s economy. This lesson involves a pre-assessment, guided inquiry, and a formative post-assessment. The pre-assessment (Gallery Walk) allows the student to activate background knowledge. The guided inquiry allows the student to affirm or adjust the responses given in the pre-assessment, and the post-assessment (The Wind Blows If… Game) allows the teacher to determine the students’ understanding of the material. Standard: 3-4.6
In this lesson students analyze the workings of South Carolina’s textile industry using photographic evidence. Students then work as museum curators to create exhibits that help record history. Standard: 8-5.3
This lesson addresses the problematic existence of one Freedman college in South Carolina established during the reconstruction era. Students pose as history detectives trying to unlock the clues behind the mystery of The Missing Freedman College. Standard: 8-4.4
In this lesson students will attempt to recreate a journal that traces a typical draftee’s path from recruitment, training, deployment and assimilation to home using background knowledge of WWI and conditions in the segregated south. Standard: 8-6.2
Students act as advertising agents in this lesson. They use photographic evidence and Google Maps to track the existence of rail lines throughout South Carolina towns. With additional research, students explore the history and necessity for rail lines in South Carolina. With research and photography, students develop ads that promote this once-booming industry. Standard: 8-5.3
Students in this lesson analyze and compare photographic evidence from Hurricane Hugo and the Hurricane of 1893. Standard: 8-5.5
