Visit the South Carolina Department of Education for Social Studies standards.
Take a quick look at all Social Studies series on Knowitall.org
Document
Video questions are a great way to keep students engaged and focused while viewing a video clip. Use these questions to help students focus on the important points made in this video.
Photo
Established in Trenton (Edgefield County) in 1881 by the Reverend Alexander Bettis, this school provided former enslaved African Americans and their children with a basic education of reading and...
Video
After the Civil War, the U.S. had a long road ahead for rebuilding the country. In addition to fixing the country's infrastructure, the U.S. needed to mend the social and political inequities many...
Video
The question of "the peculiar institution" known as slavery had been hotly debated long before the American Civil War. This video outlines the reasons the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S...
Document
Abraham Lincoln: 16th President of the United States - Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's greatest moral, cultural, constitutional, and political crisis. He succeeded...
Photo
The 13 th Amendment The 14 th Amendment The 15 th Amendment The Founding Fathers Three Fifths Compromise Eli Whitney – Inventor of the “Cotton Gin” Diagram of a “Cotton Gin” Pros and Cons of Slavery...
Document
“14th Amendment.” Legal Information Institute, Legal Information Institute. Accessed 28 April 2021. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv. American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil...
Photo
The Penn Center, founded officially as the Penn School in 1865, is a campus of buildings dedicated to African American education in St. Helena Island, South Carolina. The original school grew out of...
Video
The panel compares the Chernobyl accident with other nuclear disasters throughout human history, and talks about the economic impacts in Russian-Ukrainian relations.
Video
The panel discusses how the Chernobyl incident has affected the lives of people, plants, and wildlife in the surrounding regions of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. The panel also compares the lives of...