Educational Resources
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Looking for virtual learning opportunities or resources to enhance your educational experiences?
The South Carolina State Museum has a variety of content to assist educators that is just a click-away! Discover museum resources that can help you make educational learning engaging with videos, lesson plans, object collections and more by searching below.
You can also download the 2025-2026 Education Guide
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Easy to use and manipulate, working with sodium polyacrylate can lead to some pretty fun “super cool” science experiments for your classroom.
Learn about polymers, molecules and more with this Last Minute Lesson to mix up some 'Mastodon Mucus' with your students!
While at home or in the classroom here is a great way to learn with this easy Halloween themed activity.
Bubble science is an awesome activity for teachers to use in their classrooms. Create different solutions, experiment with textures, create shapes and more.
Gather up the ribbon and glue, it's time for Last Minute Lesson Plan on how to make a Jacob's Ladder! This is a great classroom activity for grades 3 - 5.
There are lots of opportunities for easy, hands-on learning while at home! Here is fun activity parents and kids can do together using regular household items. Ready? Gather up your baking soda and vinegar so we can learn about reactions – by making a volcano!
Ready? Gather up your baking soda and vinegar so we can learn about reactions!
Ready? Gather up your baking soda and vinegar so we can learn about reactions!
This video focuses on Columbia's darkest days during the Civil War, the burning of the city and the aftermath that followed. Hear about this major event in our state's history from and excellent primary source - Emma LeConte, a 14-year-old girl who lived in the city during the burning - and take a look at real photographs and art made about the burning.
In this video, Planetarium Manager Liz Klimek takes our elementary students on a tour of the night sky. She explores several constellations and planets in this video.
This is an image of Saturn taken through our Clark telescope at SCSM. Our telescope shows a beautiful view of the rings...the rings of Saturn are visible even in a small backyard telescope.
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Learn more about how to amaze your students with resources from the museum's Astronomy Education Center, featuring a planetarium, observatory and historic telescope collection.
