South Carolina State Museum

• Four-week notice requested
• Programs available September 16, 2003 through May 21, 2004
• All programs are subject to change.
• Ten or more students are required to schedule a program.
• If you must cancel your visit, please call (803) 898-4999 or email ...groupvisits@museum.state.sc.us

Our Art, Our History
(Grades K5-8) Our history is expressed and celebrated through art. Students will explore works ranging from the Philip Simmons Gate to presentation swords to portraits to discover how works of art tell the story of South Carolina.

Antebellum South Carolina
(Grades 3-4, 8) How did rice and “King Cotton” affect the politics, economy and society of antebellum South Carolina? Through participatory activities students will learn about the role of white yeomen and free Blacks, the spread of slavery, how many West-African traditions were maintained and the rise of the planter class.

COLLECTING: How a museum gets all that "stuff."
(Grades 3-8) Museums collect a lot of things. In this lesson students will learn the "who, what, where, and why" of how a museum gets all that "stuff" and what they do with it.

Environmentally Speaking
(Grades 5-7) Students will “visit” several South Carolina habitats to learn about the diversity of plant and animal life and why it must be protected. They also will participate in activities to learn about food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.

Getting Around: Transportation in the Palmetto State
(Grades 1-8) From a replica of the “Best Friend of Charleston” to a Lowcountry canoe to a 1904 Oldsmobile and a 1915 Model-T Ford, students will learn about “getting around.”

Unearthing History
(Grades 3-4, 8) With this lesson, students will learn about Native American, European and African cultures that were brought together to make the South Carolina we know today. Archaeology helps us learn about our past by studying the material remains that people leave behind.

How Things Work
(Grades 3-8) From the steam engine to the internal combustion engine to the laser, students will find out “how things work.”

Moving On
(Grades K4-K5, 40 minutes) “Travel” through the State Museum to find out how people (past and present) move from place to place.

Exploring the Universe
(Grade 4) Did you know that many astronauts are South Carolina natives? Find out how space exploration is part of our everyday lives and discover the science behind the journeys into the cosmos.

Rural South Carolina
(Grades 3, 5, 8) What was a farmer’s life like in the early 1900s? Students will participate in hands-on activities at the Jenney Store and the Berry School to compare rural life to life in a mill village.

South Carolina’s Symbols
(Grade 3, maximum 60 students and adults) What do “The Philip Simmons Gate” and the state flag have in common? How is the Upcountry different from the Lowcountry? What clues tell us that mastodons once roamed the land? Learn the answers to these questions and others in this lesson correlated with the third-grade S.C. Social Studies Curriculum Standards.

The Palmetto State at War
(Grades 3-4, 8) Life changed dramatically for most people during the Civil War. Thousands of men went off to war leaving women in charge of running businesses, farms and plantations. Students will examine how citizens coped with shortages on the homefront. They will equip a “soldier” for war and find out about the burning of Columbia.

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