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Standard 5-4

5-4 The student will demonstrate an understanding of American economic challenges in the 1920s and 1930s and world conflict in the 1940s.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

New Technologies during WWII

Document

Grades: 5

Students will use the hyperlink provided in the document, and watch the Generation of Heroes videos to research and learn about new technologies used during World War 2. **Click here for Hyperlink...

Japanese Internment Camps

Lesson

Grades: 5, 7

Students will discover what it was like to live in internment camps through reading personal accounts of those who lived during that time.

Sisterhood: SC Suffragists-Moving Forward, Part 6

Episode 6

Video

Grades: 5 8 Higher Education Professional Development

Each member of the panel discusses what she feels are the most important issues America faces now, regarding voting rights.

Two Voices and a Tableau: Pearl Harbor and 9/11

Lesson

Grades: 5

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 shocked the nation. Citizens and servicemen were caught off guard and left vulnerable to the Japanese attacks. Sixty years later in 2001, the United States endured...

Work and Play in South Carolina

Lesson

Grades: 3, 5

Part of the New Deal was the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). President Roosevelt created this group to give employment to many of the young men who found themselves jobless during...

The 1920s - Not Roaring in South Carolina

Lesson

Grades: 5, 8

The depression of the 1920s and 1930s affected the economic and social lives of rural families in South Carolina. Farmers had to pay most of the taxes, but they were the ones with the least amount of...

Why Study History - Return to Normandy

Lesson

Grades: 5, 7, 11

With an understanding of the importance of the D-Day invasion to the people of France, and to the world in helping end the tyranny of fascism and the oppression of Hitler’s Nazi regime, answer the...

The Rising Sun, Part 7

Episode 7

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 Higher Education

The island of Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, was the major offensive area for the Japanese, in order to control Australia and the South Pacific. Veterans and historians reflect on...

Women Celebrate Passing of 19th Amendment - Aug. 26, 1920 | Periscope

Episode 6

Photo

Grades: 5 9 10 11 12

By the 1890s, some states began giving women the right to vote. Though Susan and her followers were making progress, she knew there was a lot of work to be done. Before she died in 1906 she said...

National American Woman Suffrage Association | Periscope

Episode 5

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 9 10 11 12

Susan and Elizabeth formed the National Woman Suffrage Association, open to women only. Their goal was to add an amendment to the Constitution that allowed women to vote. They published newspapers and...

Petition for Women's Suffrage | Periscope

Episode 4

Photo

Grades: 9 10 11 12

Susan was inspired by Elizabeth's work, particularly in suffrage, and became dedicated to gaining equal rights for women. Equal rights meant the right to vote, equal pay, and equal treatment for women...

Susan B. Anthony Met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851 | Periscope

Episode 3

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5

After teaching for over 10 years, Susan began to work for social change. She joined the temperance movement to abolish alcohol and drunkenness. Although women were allowed to work for the movement...

Susan's Father Allowed Her to Work in the Family Cotton Mill | Periscope

Episode 2

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5

Susan B. Anthony's family owned a cotton mill and believed that hard work and education were very important to Susan's upbringing. Outside Susan's close Quaker community, many of these beliefs were...

Susan B. Anthony | Periscope

Episode 1

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5

Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 to a Quaker family in New England. Quakers practiced equality between men and women and did not believe in violence or slavery. Although Susan B. Anthony was not...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson One

Lesson

Grades: 5, 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 1 deals with the rememberances of Trude (pronounced Tru-dee) Heller...

Native Americans | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 5 8 11

John Trudell, a Native American activist, talks about an often overlooked group of people. Trudell shares how Native Americans fit into the fight for civil rights. Connections, P.A. Bennett, ETV, 2002

Bloody Sunday | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Civil Rights leaders try to desegregate the most racist capital in the nation, Birmingham, Alabama. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S...

Civil Rights Organizations | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) was the major civil rights organization in South Carolina. Several other organizations such as Student Nonviolent Coordinating...

Leading the Struggle | Road Trip

Video

Grades: 9 10 11 12

There were several key leaders during the Civil Rights Movement. Despite visible leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and John F. Kennedy, young people played a major role in...