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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, EconomicsThe goals of this lesson, from EDSITEment, are to gain insight into New Deal programs and the experience of Depression-era Ameri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDust Bowl Days
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Music and 3 additional..This unit of seven lessons, from EDSITEment, introduces the dramatic era of the Great Depression to students through photographs...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDesigning Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath": A Multigenre Project
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read "The Grapes of Wrath" and explore issues from the Depression era. Students then foc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGreat Depression and Dust Bowl Web Exploration
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Music and 2 additional..In this student interactive, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore Web sites to gather background information, take not...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentAmerica on the Move Classroom Activity Guide - Unit 3: 1930's & 40's Highways - Mapping the Big Idea
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this classroom activity from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students will work with a historical map ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLife of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings, 1912-1948
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, EconomicsLife of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings, 1912-1948 presents American prints and drawings relating the condition of worki...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis and 2 additional..American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 presents 2,900 life histories from 300 writers...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe New Deal: North Carolina's Reconstruction?
Grades: 8Subjects: United States History, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts and 3 additional..This Library of Congress lesson plan is a guide for teachers that will result in imaginary Works Progress Administration (WPA) i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Memory: The Learning Page Lesson Plans - Visions in the Dust
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: United States History, Literary Analysis, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsThis unit helps students gain an understanding of Dust Bowl history through the eyes of a child. Using Karen Hesse s Newbery Awa...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerica from the Great Depression to World War II, Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Visual Arts, Electives and 2 additional..This Library of Congress American Memory Project collection includes 160,000 black-and-white photographs taken between 1935 and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPhoto Gallery: Dust Bowl Life
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, Career & Technical Ed, History-Social Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 5 additional..This page, part of a photo gallery from the New Deal Network, features photographs of people and places at the time of the Dust ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLending a Hand: A Woman Remembers Hoboes of the 1930s
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryFrom the History Matters Web site, this page features an interview with a woman who experienced the Great Depression. Lora Albr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, offered by the Library of Congress American Memory Web site, features narratives and life histories from the Fo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPBS - Surviving the Dustbowl
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, Life Sciences, Ecology & Ecosystems, History-Social Science, ScienceThis web page, found on the PBS Web site, provides information about the eight-year drought that turned the southern Great Plain...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Depths of Depression
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, EconomicsThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on significant events in American history and culture associ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Great Depression: What Would It Be Like Today?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, EconomicsIn this PBS lesson, students calculate the percentage decline in factors affecting the quality of life such as wages and unemplo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBreadline: 1929-1939
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Geography, American Democracy and 2 additional..This PBS Teacher s Guide accompanies the Breadline segment of their People s Century series. This program focuses on the after...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGreat Migration (African American)
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, Geography, Electives, History-Social ScienceThis essay, from Wikipedia, tells the story of the migration of thousands of African Americans from the South to the North in th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Great Depression
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, Literary Analysis, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, EconomicsThis page, from Modern American Poetry, features information about the Great Depression and the Dustbowl, including a photo essa...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0