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Standard 8-7.4

8-7.4 Summarize key economic issues in present-day South Carolina, including the decline of the textile industry, the state’s continuing right-to-work status, the changes in agricultural emphasis, the growing globalization and foreign investment,...

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Charleston Tea Garden Video Questions | From the Sky

Document

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Keep your students engaged while watching the Charleston Tea Garden From the Sky video with these video questions. Students are also asked to find two additional facts about Columbia when done!

Earth Day, Part 9 | Project Discovery

Episode 9

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Understanding education and what can be learned at the Congaree National Park. (Part 9)

Earth Day, Part 5 | Project Discovery

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Rudy Mancke and a park ranger answer questions about the Congaree National Park from students during the original broadcast of the Project Discovery Earth Day special. (Part 5)

Earth Day, Part 3 | Project Discovery

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Rudy Mancke speaks with a park ranger about Congaree National Park and its history. (Part 3)

Earth Day, Part 6 | Project Discovery

Episode 6

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

A look at the wildlife and features of the Congaree National Park. (Part 6)

Earth Day, Part 10 | Project Discovery

Episode 10

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Some more student questions are answered in the conclusion to Project Discovery's Earth Day special at the Congaree National Park. (Part 10)

Earth Day, Part 1 | Project Discovery

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Project Discovery celebrates Earth Day with a program hosted at the Congaree National Park. (Part 1)

Nuestro Futuro (Our Future): Children of Latino Families | Carolina Stories

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 6 7 8

The children of Latino families often learn English more quickly than their parents. They become the family interpreters, making phone calls, translating bills and letters and going with their parents...

Nuestro Futuro (Our Future): American Schools | Carolina Stories

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 8

Adjusting to American schools is challenging for immigrant kids and their parents. They face a language barrier and educational systems that are very different from those in Latin American countries.

Nuestro Futuro (Our Future): Divided Homes | Carolina Stories

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 6 7 8

Extended families separated by the realities of immigration yearn for contact. In this chapter a video letter goes to Mexico and Carlos Garrido of the University of Vercruz explains cultural identity...

Nuestro Futuro (Our Future): Cultural Integration | Carolina Stories

Episode 7

Video

Grades: 8

Dr. Elaine Lacy discusses other problems immigrants face, from getting children into school to medical care, and Maria's mother talks about feelings of isolation. Hispanic Outreach and Padres en...

Nuestro Futuro (Our Future): Lost in Translation | Carolina Stories

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 6 7 8

Interpreting for the family can be difficult for kids, and sometimes dangerous. Griselda got into serious trouble when she interpreted for her aunt at an Immigration Office.

Nuestro Futuro (Our Future): Latino Impact | Carolina Stories

Episode 9

Video

Grades: 6 7 8

The growing Latino populations is having an impact on the economy. Some say it is positive, others disagree. Whatever we think of immigration, no one can deny that people come here to make a better...

Nuestro Futuro (Our Future): Court Date | Carolina Stories

Episode 6

Video

Grades: 6 7 8

Griselda's case goes to court and Carlos Garrido tells us more about the consequences of deportation for Mexicans.

Nuestro Futuro (Our Future): Why We Come | Carolina Stories

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 6 7 8

Mario Bravo's father worked in South Carolina and rarely made it home to Mexico. She hardly knew him, and it broke his heart. Today more Latino men are bringing their families with them to the U.S...

Nuestro Futuro (Our Future): Rapid Assimilation | Carolina Stories

Episode 8

Video

Grades: 8

Immigrant parents worry that their children will assimilate too quickly and get into trouble. But Maria - like most immigrant kids - works hard to be successful, to prove that her parents' struggles...

Elliott White Springs | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 9 10 11 12

"There's no such thing as bad publicity..." This remark, attributed to Irish playwright Brendan Behan, sums up the advertising philosophy of noted textile executive Elliott White Springs of Springs...

Hugh McColl | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

At the age of fourteen, Hugh Leon McColl Jr. learned double entry book-keeping while working at his father's cotton company. This skill would prepare him for a career in banking and would lead McColl...

Governor James Burrows Edwards | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

James Burrows Edwards was born in Hawthorne, Florida, and was an officer in the U.S. Maritime Service during World War II. Edwards received a bachelor's degree in 1950 at the College of Charleston. He...

Bernard Baruch | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Bernard Mannes Baruch was by all accounts one of the most famous and influential Americans of his era -- and certainly one of the wealthiest. Born in South Carolina in 1870, Baruch was a governor of...