English Language Arts
- Explain storytelling as oral communication
- Explain the role of a curator
- Have students identify and write about artifacts appropriate for exhibition at a cultural exchange center
- Have students construct their own stories to retell to a group and introduce the element of the dramatic.
Social Studies
- Introduce the West African "Griot" or storyteller. Explain the significance of storytelling as a method of recording history.
- Have students identify the history that is referenced in fictional stories.
- Have students research the history of African American museums in South Carolina, the US and the world.
- Compare and Contrast the cultural exchange center, the state museum and the SC Department of Archives and History
Science
- Discuss the process of preserving "old" artifacts, i.e. petrifying, fossilization, etc.
- Discuss the various chemicals used to preserve artifacts
- Discuss the ways that exposure to natural elements "breakdown" artifacts, i.e., moisture, body oils, and oxygen.
