Great Depression and New Deal Lesson Plans for Teachers
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Great Depression - Lesson Plans, Classroom Activities, Project Ideas, Games
Award Winning Great Depression Unit with lessons, whiteboard use, powerpoints, and activities
Causes - Handout in outline form (goes with Causes of the Great Depression for Kids) Donn
Music of the Great Depression (Donn)
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
The Hoover Reaction - 1928 vs 1932 (Donn)
FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
The Great Depression Unit (4th grade)
The Great Depression (1929-1939, high school)
Whatdunnit? The Great Depression Mystery - Depression Review and intro to World War II
Classroom Activities and Project Ideas for the Great Depression (Donn)
The Stock Market Crash - Lesson Plan, Simulation, Games
Simulation: Stock Market Crash 1929
Understanding the Stock Market Crash of 1929 using cartoons, lesson plan
Stock Market Crash for Kids (Donn)
The New Deal - Lesson Plans, Classroom Activities, Project Ideas, Games
From Prosperity to Despair (1928-1932) and FDR to the rescue (for kids) - Intro to New Deal (Donn)
New Deal Programs - Brother, Can you spare a dime?
The New Deal Agencies (Cyber Learning) and A list of some of the important alphabet agencies created as part of the New Deal, and what each was designed to accomplish (Donn)
The New Deal (primary sources)
African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corp
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s
Free PowerPoints about the New Deal
The Dust Bowl - Lesson Plans, Resources, Simulation
Dust Bowl Resources for Teachers
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