It Is Essential For Students To Know:

• Students should know the relative location of South Carolina in the United States and that South Carolina is bordered on the north by North Carolina, on the west and south by Georgia and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean.
• Students should know the characteristics of significant landforms of South Carolina including mountains, foothills, the fall line, sand hills, rivers, swamps, plains, marshes, beaches, and dunes.
• Students need to know the major river systems in South Carolina including the Pee Dee River Basin, Santee River Basin, the Edisto River Basin, and the Savannah River Basin and be able to locate them on a map.
• Students should know that river systems are made up of several rivers.
• Students should understand that South Carolina has no natural lakes. All of South Carolina’s lakes are man-made, formed by damming of the rivers.
• Students should locate the major cities of South Carolina, such as Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, on a map.
• Students should read a map legend to find the symbol for cities and know that cities are typically designated by a dot on a map.
• They should identify Charleston as a port city because of its location on the Atlantic Ocean and
• Columbia should be known as the capital, often designated by a star on a map.
• Students should know that South Carolina is located within only one climate region, the humid subtropical region.

It is not essential for students to know

• within South Carolina there are minor weather variations in rainfall and temperature as they relate to climate controls such as elevation and proximity to large bodies of water or the ocean. The temperature in the mountains is generally cooler than on the coast and the mountains receive more rainfall.