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This lesson covers vocabulary for rooms and furniture around the home. Also described is space used to set up comparisons in sentences as well as the 3 kinds of sentences in the deaf language.
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This program continues the discussion on the use of adjective in American Sign Language: how to compare things and how to incorporate adjectives. Vocabulary related to health and parts of the body are...
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The discuss why English articles are not part of ASL. They talk about English idioms and how to change them into sign language. How conjunctions are handled are also covered.
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Much of the information in a signing conversation is in the expressions and body stance. They compare sentences with and without facial expressions. They also demonstrate specific facial expressions...
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South Carolina has played an important role in space exploration. Charles Duke, who grew up in Lancaster, S.C., walked on the moon in 1972. Charles Bolden, who grew up in Columbia, served as pilot on...
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"We continue to love Dali, but the question is why?" Palmetto Scene spoke with Chief Curator Will South of the Columbia Museum of Art about the whimsy and wonder of Salvador Dalí, the man who captured...
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In this segment, we meet the engineer who drives one of the two largest track vehicles in the world, the transporter. Built in 1963, the transporter is approximately 120 feet by 115 feet in width, and...
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This segment features educational materials offered to teachers by Langley Research Center.
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Spaceport USA is the visitor's center for Kennedy Space Center. Spaceport USA has free parking and free exhibits. The IMAX movies and the bus tour of Kennedy Space Center are the only attractions for...
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This segment is about materials that are available for teachers at the Center for Space Education.
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This segment is about the VAB or Vehicle Assembly Building. It is 525 feet tall, taller than the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. It is longer than two football fields put together. It...
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Jim Gerard, an aerospace education specialists at Kennedy Space Center, discusses the astronauts becoming weightless and demonstrates a ball that, when dropped, alarms as it falls and is momentarily...
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This segment is a tour of a full-scale model of a shuttle. We see the cargo bay of the shuttle, the containers in which astronauts store their belongings, and the airlock where depressurization of the...
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Born in Charleston, Governor Burnet R. Maybank (1899-1954) attended local public schools, Porter Military Academy, and the College of Charleston. During WWI, he served as a seaman in the U.S. Navy...
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Richard I. Manning III (1859-1931) served as governor from 1915-1919. Born in 1859 at Homesley Plantation in Sumter County, Manning was educated at local schools and at the Kenmore Preparatory School...
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Basil Manly, Sr. (1798-1868), was the author of the resolutions leading to cleavage of the Baptist Church in 1844 into northern and southern branches. He was influential in securing the establishment...
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Gabriel Manigault (1758-1809), the grandson of Huguenot immigrants, was a member of one of the richest pre-Revolutionary families in South Carolina. A rice planter, he studied law in London, but...
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Charles Izard Manigault (1789-1874) was born in Charleston, but grew up in Philadelphia, graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. Some planter and merchant families, like the Izards and...
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Charles Lowndes (1719-1763), born on the British West Indian island of St. Kitts, came to Charleston in 1730. Like many other immigrants from the islands, he became a successful planter, settling in...
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Jacob Bond L'On (1782-1859) graduated from Yale in 1803 and saw military service as an officer of artillery during the War of 1812. He was a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1816 until 1832...
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Andrew Jackson State Park is located in Lancaster County. Andrew Jackson claimed he was born on a South Carolina plantation that is now the area for Andrew Jackson State Park. He was known as the...
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John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher. Locke's connection with the Carolina colony was a result of his friendship with Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper (see Anthony Ashley-Cooper). In 1669...
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Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee (1756-1818), a native Virginian, helped to gain an important American victory at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in September 1781. Appointed a Captain in the Virginia...
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Joshua Lazarus (1796-1861) was president of the congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in Charleston from 1851-1861, and an investor whose efforts helped bring natural gas lighting to Charleston...
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John Laurens (c1755-1782) was the son of Continental Congress President Henry Laurens, and aide-de-camp to George Washington. Born in South Carolina, Laurens went to London to study law, but returned...
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Henry Laurens (1724-1792), one of South Carolina's leading figures during the Revolution, was a member of the First and Second Provincial Congresses, President of the Council of Safety, and President...
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Mary Camilla Judson (1828-1920), the sister of Charles H. Judson (see Charles Hallette Judson), was for 46 years connected with the Greenville Female College (see A Card Advertising "The Greenville...
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Charles Hallette Judson (1820-1898), a leading Baptist educator, came to South Carolina in 1857 as a professor of mathematics and mechanics at Furman University. During the Civil War he also took...
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Telling time is related to this program. They concentrate on verbs, tenses and adverbs. The time line is covered. The time line is important because the location of the hands when signing is an...
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There are different sign languages, some used by the deaf and others that are used by hearing people. One theme of this program is animals. We learn that the signs for animals resemble the animals...