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The Great Depression: Eating on a Shoestring

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the realities of feeding a family on a very limited budget by comparing the cost of living in the 1930s to the cost of living today. Using primary documents and technology to make the comparison, they identify the impact...
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The Great Depression

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the implications of economic fallout. In this Great Depression lesson, 7th graders analyze political cartoons and documents about the era. Students then conduct further primary source research about the toll...
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Should New Orleans be Rebuilt?

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students, after researching two websites dealing with New Orleans, complete a chart as they read the arguments for and against rebuilding New Orleans. They locate the evidence offered for support, analyze the geography domains and...
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Surviving the Depression- 1930-1939 Lesson 3: Solutions to the Depression

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students evaluate the components of the New Deal and role of nonprofit organizations the relief and rebuilding efforts of the Great Depression. They write letters to the organization that they are researching.
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The Great Depression Essay

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the events that led to the stock market crash,the concerns of the Depression, and the effects of the New Deal programs on the American people and the American economy.
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Home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Historic Site

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners examine some early activities and circumstances of Franklin Roosevelt's life and demonstrate how those activities may have influenced his policies and decisions in public life. Structures in their own community created by the...
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The Great Depression and FDR

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders recognize some of the causes and effects of the Great Depression, and thereby explain the motives behind Roosevelt's "New Deal" program for the United States.
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Privacy - What's the Big Deal?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate Internet privacy by discussing ideas with their classmates.  In this personal information lesson, students listen to a teacher tell them their every move will be watched as part of a research activity at school....
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PBS

Master of the Airwaves: How FDR Used Radio to Ease the Public’s Fears

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
The political and economic climate during the 1930's was uncertain and tumultuous. But Americans' minds and hearts were eased with the reassuring words of their president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and addresses over the radio. High...
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Understanding the Great Depression Through Film

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders consider the role that government should play in economics. In this Great Depression lesson, 11th graders watch the film Cinderella Man and then complete a packet of worksheets to help them analyze the themes of the film...
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Social Security

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the inception of Social Security benefits provided by the Government.  In this Social Security lesson, students debate whether or not people should be entitled to receive money from the government.  Students view...
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National First Ladies' Library

Gibson Girls and Flappers: What is this "New Woman"?

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students divide into five groups with each exploring one section of the website, "The New Woman". After they complete their research, they discuss the nature and characteristics of the "new woman" and compare these to characteristics of...
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New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine student search and seizure. In this Supreme Court lesson, students examine primary documents from New Jersey v. T.L.O. and discuss the implications of the decision.
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Christopher Columbus, The Explorer

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students brainstorm important facts about Christopher Columbus, input information into Kidspiration or Inspiration, watch United Streaming Video on Christopher Columbus and New World to gather information, research online to find...
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Edgate

Discovering New Resources

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
What is a natural resource, and what resources did the Lewis and Clark expedition seek? After reading an article on the mapping of the west, learners get into small groups to discuss the important natural resources of the period. They...
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The Federal Theatre Project

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research the Federal Theatre Project and assess its accomplishments. Working in groups, they identify both successes and failure of the project and record their findings on a chart. Students explain the credibility of the...
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Interpreting Primary Sources: Letters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students examine letters and respond to 8 short answer questions regarding their content.
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People in the Depression

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discover what it was like to live in 1930's America. For this Great Depression lesson, students listen a guest speaker talk about his/her experience during the time period in American history. Students take notes on the...
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A Single Lucid Moment

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners examine a case study of contrasting values between cultures. They read and discuss a story of a family of Peace Corps volunteers in Papua New Guinea, write a response to the story, and write a script for a dramatization of the...
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Historical Thinking Matters

Social Security: 3 Day Lesson

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
What does social security reveal about the political and social culture of the 1930s? After beginning with a brief introductory video on the impact of the Great Depression and how various Americans, such as Huey Long and Francis...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Could It Happen Again?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The final lesson in a series of six about the Great Depression focuses on the Federal Reserve's role in stabilizing the economy.
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A&E Television

The World Wars

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Contemporaneously known as The Great War, World War I had never seen its match on the global stage—until World War II. An engaging set of resources designed to extend a viewing of the History Channel's The World Wars features discussion...
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"Breadline": The Great Depression Causes, Consequences and Recovery

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars compare prices of popular items of late 1920s to cost of those items presently, determine which companies are best in which to invest, analyze causes and consequences of stock market crash of 1929, and evaluate...
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A New World and the Emergence of a New Race

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars study specific terms and concepts about the discovery of America. They improve their history knowledge about some Latin American regions and their map and geography skills of the New World. They describe what is meant...

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