Lesson Overview
In this lesson students will be learning about the “struggle for power” between the Spanish, French, English, and Native Americans for South Carolina. The teacher will emphasize that each group had motives for maintaining a presence in South Carolina and students will learn about the steps each group took toward achieving that goal.
Duration
Multiple days
Lesson Type
1:1 Lesson
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Computers/tablets with internet acess
- An equal number of blue, yellow, red, and green Popsicle sticks (number depends on class size, one for each student)
- Paper bag
- Circle of Inheritance: A Struggle for Power video
- Computer/iPad access and library access
- Blank timeline on classroom wall
- Blue, yellow, red, and green paper
- Tape
- Markers
- ELMO Document Camera or Projector
- 4 sheets of transparency paper, each with a blank map of the East Coast, Atlantic Ocean, and European Coast for the overhead projector
- Old looking paper (stained by tea/burned edges)
- Pencils
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- 8.1.CO Compare the three British North American colonial regions economically, politically, socially, and in regard to labor development.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how the three British colonial regions developed in terms of their culture, economies, geography, and labor. The indicator was also developed to encourage inquiry into the unique story of the development of South Carolina.
- 8.1.CC Analyze the changes and continuities of the Native Americans' experiences prior to and as a result of settlement and colonization.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into Native American civilizations and cultures prior to European contact and their interactions with Europeans during the period of settlement and colonization, including their efforts to preserve their cultures.
- 8.1.E Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to examine multiple perspectives and influences of the economic, political, and social effects of South Carolina’s settlement and colonization on the development of various forms of government across the colonies.
- C Communication
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