Lesson Overview
Students will learn about Fort Frederick's history, built by the British with a unique tabby material, and then engage in a hands-on activity to explore the challenges and importance of this construction method.
Essential Question
How did the limitations of local materials influence the construction techniques used at Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve?
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Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
4, 6, 8
Materials
- Fort Frederick Tabby documentary (optional to view other documentaries in the Fort Frederick series)
- Frosted Fort: Tabby Construction Worksheet
- Frosted Flakes or Rice Krispies bars recipe (linked in resources tab)
- Frosted Flakes or Rice Krispies bars ingredients
- One paper plate per student
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- 4.1.CC Identify patterns of change and continuity in the development of economic systems in British North America.
- 6.3.CO Compare European motivations for exploration and settlement.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into European motivations for exploration and settlement as a result of the closing of the Silk Road. This indicator was also written to foster inquiry into the development of the Atlantic World, and the resulting economic, political, and social transformations in European, American, and African societies.
- 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.
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Lesson Partners: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources