Timeline of Lesson Plans and Primary Sources

Links to lessons below appear on a timeline under one of eight Historical Eras ranging from "Encounters in the New World (up to 1607)" to "Contemporary America (1945 to present)." To the left of the timeline are thumbnail images of local primary sources and virtual tours relating to South Carolina and American history.

A list of additional lesson plan ideas from participating teachers.

List of primary sources is available.

Encounters in the New World		Early Explorer Time-Line Grade Level: 4th Exploration and Encounters Grade Level: 4th But Where Is It On This Modern Map? Grade Level: 4th Hernando De Soto's Trip through South Carolina Grade Level: 4th The Roanoke Mystery (1587) Grade Level: 4th Southeastern Native Americans' Lifestyles Grade Level: 4th
Colonization, Settlement, and Communities		Rules, Rules, Rules (1620) Grade Level: 4th Lowcountry Rice Planting and Cooking (1700s) Grade Level: 8th The Role of African Slaves on South Carolina Rice Plantations Grade Level: 4th Gullah Contributions to South Carolina History Grade Level: 3rd/Special Education Comparing Two Colonial Plantations (1733 & 1763) Grade Level: 8th "The Trading Post with the Most: Colonial Dorchester's Settlement and Economy" (1735-1750) Grade Level: 4th "Effects of the Stono Rebellion" (1739) Grade Level: 8th Stono Rebellion (1739) Grade Level: 4th "An eye for an eye" (1740) Grade Level: 6th Early Colonial Labor Force (1740s) Grade Level: 8th Am I Really Free? (1740's) Grade Level: 4th Trade Trials Treaties (1761) Grade Level: 4th
The Revolution and the New Nation		Wake Up King George (1765) Grade Level: 4th Natural Dyes Grade Level: 2nd Why War? Causes of the American Revolution and South Carolina's Role Grade Level: 8th Into the Wild: Settling the South Carolina Backcountry Grade Level: 8th South Carolina Responds (1775) Grade Level: 8th Battle of Fort Moultrie (1776) Grade Level: 8th Loyalist or Patriot (1780) Grade Level: 8th Battle of Huck's Defeat (1780) Grade Level: 8th Revolutionary Women of South Carolina (1780) Grade Level: 8th Henry Laurens in the Tower of London (1780-1781) Grade Level: 8th General Greene to General Marion: Your State is Invaded, Your All is At Stake Grade Level: 3rd Kate Fowler: Tory Spy Grade Level: 3rd The Old Folks Will Bless You and the Girls Kiss You Grade Level: 4th "Doing History" The Crafting of a Christopher Gadsden Biography (1723-1805) Grade Level: 8th The Impact of the Cotton Gin Grade Level: 4th
Expansion and Reform		Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians (around 1800) Grade Level: 8th The Voices of Slavery (early 1800s) Grade Level: 4th Follow the Drinkin’ Gourd How Spirituals Helped Slaves... Grade Level: 5th Buying, Selling and Trading in Antebellum South Carolina (early 1800s) Grade Level: High School Interpreting History With Artifacts (1800s) Grade Level: 4th They're Only Children (1800s) Grade Level: 3rd African American Life in the Pee Dee Before the Civil War (mid 1800s) Grade Level: 3rd Jacksonian America Grade Level: High School The Charleston Railroad (mid 1800s) Grade Level: 3rd End of the Line: What Happened to the Blue Ridge Railroad? Grade Level: 5th The Wild, Wild West, or Was It? Grade Level: 5th Oktoberfest: Celebration Honoring the Founding Settlers of Walhalla Grade Level: 3rd Slavery, Manumission, and Freedom: Free Blacks in Charleston before the Civil War (pre 1860) Grade Level: 8th Black Slave Owners in Charleston Grade Level: 8th Slave Auctions (1858) Grade Level: 8th Examining Slave Auction Documents (1859-1860) Grade Level: High School From Slave to Entrepreneur: The Life and Times of William Ellison Grade Level: 8th Between the Rivers Grade Level: 2nd
Crisis of the Union: Civil War and Reconstruction		Secession: A Southern Perspective (1860-1866) Grade Level: 8th Robert Smalls: Warrior and Peacemaker (1862-1915) Grade Level: 3rd, 4th, 5th “Will I or Won’t I?” Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, 54th Massachusetts Regiment (1863-1865) Grade Level: High School SC Black Codes (1865) Grade Level: High School Where Do We Go From Here? (1865-1870) Grade Level: 8th Using Primary Sources to Discover Reconstruction Grade Level: 5th What Price Freedom! Civil War Reconstruction Grade Level: 5th Being There (1870s) Grade Level: 8th The World the Civil War Made! Grade Level: 8th Intimidation at Its Best Grade Level: 5th
The Development of Modern America		Kensington Mansion: Plantation, Sharecroppers, Tenants (1865-1912) Grade Level: High School Turn of the Century Immigration Grade Level: High School History Mystery: The Case of Giovanni Baptista Sanguinetti Grade Level: High School Trial at the Turn of the Century: A Window on a World (1893-1903) Grade Level: High School John Gary Evans and the Politics of Race (1895-6) Grade Level: High School Ben Tillman and Political Reform in South Carolina(1890s) Grade Level: High School What Was South Carolina's Role in the Spanish American War? (1898) Grade Level: 7th Child Labor in the Carolinas Grade Level: 5th Goin' On Strike Grade Level: 5th Images from South Carolina Cotton Mills (1909) Grade Level: 5th Memories of a Mill Town Grade Level: 3rd The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Grade Level: 6th
Modern America and the World Wars		Segregated Soldiers (1917-1918) Grade Level: 5th Lines From Behind The Lines (1917-1918) Grade Level: 5th The 1920s - Not Roaring in South Carolina (1920s) Grade Level: 5th Great Depression in SC (1930s) Grade Level: 3rd What a Kind Santa Claus You Are (1930s) Grade Level: High School The Historical and Economic Impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps in South Carolina Grade Level: 8th Work and Play in South Carolina Grade Level: 3rd & 5th World War II Grade Level: 5th Social Effects of WWII on SC (1941) Grade Level: 5th Social Effects of WWII on SC (1941, Pt.2) Grade Level: 5th Social Effects of WWII on SC (1942, Pt. 3) Grade Level: 5th Social Effects of WWII on SC (1942, Pt. 4) Grade Level : 5th WACS, WAVES, & SPARS (1942) Grade Level: 8th "No Gold Stars For Me, Please!" (1942) Grade Level: 8th The Enemy in Our Own Backyard! (1943) Grade Level: High School "A Costly Prosperity" (1944) Grade Level: 8th
Contemporary America		From Cotton to Baseball: How Greenville Grew Grade Level: 8th Walking Down Main Street: The Changing Times of a Railroad Town (1900-1930s) Grade Level: 8th The Historical and Economic Impact of Military Bases in South Carolina Grade Level: 8th School Desegretation: Briggs v. Elliott (1940s) Grade Level: High School Desegregation of Public Schools in South Carolina Grade Level: 5th Busting Down the Doors of Segregation Grade Level: 3rd "Separate But Equal?" (1948s) Grade Level: 3rd Traveling Southern Style(1950s) Grade Level: 3rd Who is Sarah Fleming? (1954) Grade Level: 5th Civil Rights Through Photographs (1930-1960) Grade Level: 5th and 8th Why Jim Crow? Grade Level: 5th With All Deliberate Speed Grade Level: 8th Charleston Architectural Study Grade Level: 8th Too Large to be a Lunatic Asylum: South Carolina’s Mental Health (1828-1960s) Grade Level: 8th History, Artifacts, and Museums Grade Level: High School

Timeline of Lesson Plans and Primary Sources

From Slave to Entrepreneur: The Life and Times of William Ellison Grade Level: 8th