Lesson Plan Timeline

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.

For a listing of additional lesson plan ideas from participating teachers, click here.

For a listing of primary sources available online, click here.

Pee Dee teachers at the Darlington County Historical Commission

Lowcountry teachers at the SC Historical Society

Midlands teachers at the Confederate Relic Room

Historical Eras for Timeline

Encounters in the New World (Up to 1607)

Colonization, Settlement, and Communities (1607 to 1763)

The Revolution and the New Nation (1763 to 1815)

Expansion and Reform (1801 to 1861)

Crisis of the Union: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 to 1877)

The Development of Modern America (1865 to 1920)

Modern America and the World Wars (1914 to 1945)

Contemporary America (1945 to Present)

HISTORICAL ERAS

LESSON PLANS

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

Colonization, Settlement, and Communities

The Roanoke Mystery (1587)
Grade Level: 4th

Rules, Rules, Rules (1620)
Grade Level: 4th

Lowcountry Rice Planting and Cooking (1700s)
Grade Level: 8th

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

"An eye for an eye" (1740)
Grade Level: 6th

Early Colonial Labor Force (1740s)
Grade Level: 8th

The Revolution and the New Nation

Wake Up King George (1765)
Grade Level: 4th

Natural Dyes
Grade Level: 2nd

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: 8

Henry Laurens in the Tower of London
(1780-1781)
Grade Level: 8th

"Doing History" The Crafting of a Christopher Gadsden Biography
(1723-1805)
Grade Level: 8th

Expansion and Reform

Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians (around 1800)
Grade Level: 8th

The Voices of Slavery
(early 1800s)
Grade Level: 4th

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

The Charleston Railroad (mid 1800s)

Grade Level: 3rd

Slavery, Manumission, and Freedom: Free Blacks in Charleston before the Civil War
(pre 1860)
Grade Level: 8th

Slave Auctions (1858)
Grade Level: 8th

Examining Slave Auction Documents
(1859-1860)
Grade Level: High School

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

SC Black Codes (1865)

Grade Level: High School

Where Do We Go From Here? (1865-1870)
Grade Level: 8th

Being There (1870s)

Grade Level: 8th

Am I Really Free? (1870's)

Grade Level: 4th

The Development of Modern America

Kensington Mansion: Plantation, Sharecroppers, Tenants (1865-1912)
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

Images from South Carolina Cotton Mills (1909)
Grade Level: 5th

Modern America and the World Wars

Great Depression in SC (1930s)

Grade Level: 3rd

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

"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

School Desegretation: Briggs v. Elliott (1940s)

Grade Level: High School

"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

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

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