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8.3.CE Extender

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

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Charleston Forts, Part 7 7
Charleston Forts, Part 7
Episode 7

Video

Grades: 4 8

In this segment, cannons are discussed and more history. The Q & A portion continues.
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Heritage
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Heritage

Video

Grades: 4 8

This reenactment is based on excerpts from Emma LeConte’s diary. Emma, then seventeen years old, kept a diary for several months in 1865 chronicling the approach, occupation and burning of the city of...
Charleston Forts, Part 2 2
Charleston Forts, Part 2
Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 8

The story of the three forts continues with this segment on Fort Johnson and Fort Sumter.
A Daring Escape: The Planter | Periscope
A Daring Escape: The Planter | Periscope
Episode 2

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5

On the evening of May 12, 1862, the captain and officers of the Planter left the ship to spend the night on the shore. Robert and the rest of the slave crew had to stay on board under captain's orders...
Robert Smalls | Periscope
Robert Smalls | Periscope
Episode 1

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

In 1839, Robert Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina. As a slave, he worked in the Charleston shipyards. After learning the local harbor and surrounding waters, 23-year-old Robert...
CSS Hunley | Eye on the Past
CSS Hunley | Eye on the Past

Video

Grades: 4 8

Brief history of the CSS Hunley submarine. The Hunley became the first submarine to sink a federal warship, the U.S.S Housatonic.
Southern States Secede
Southern States Secede

Lesson

Grades: 8

The students will be able to research the point of view of a unionists, cooperationists, secessionists/radicals (fire-eaters), Lincoln, and a South Carolina population representative in order to...

The Civil War Battlefield
The Civil War Battlefield

Lesson

Grades: 8

The students will be able to create a 3-D display board of specific battles during the Civil War after researching their event using primary and secondary sources.

Robert Smalls | S.C. Hall of Fame
Robert Smalls | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 4 8 11

In 1862, Robert Smalls, an enslaved crew-member of the CSS Planter, steals the boat, sails it past the heavily armed defenses of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina and delivers it into the hands of...
S.C. State House, Part 1 | Project Discovery Revisited
S.C. State House, Part 1 | Project Discovery Revisited

Video

Grades: 4 8

In the 1990s, the South Carolina legislature voted to set aside funding for some much-needed renovations to the state’s capitol building. To bring the building up to today’s standards, and to protect...
H.L. Hunley Discovered | Project Discovery Revisited
H.L. Hunley Discovered | Project Discovery Revisited

Video

Grades: 4 8

The H. L. Hunley was a product of the pre-Civil War Industrial Revolution. Submersibles, torpedoes, and shells were also innovations of the 1860s. James McClintock and Baxter Watson built the Hunley...