The Great Depression

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Lesson Plans:

Dust Bowl Days - Students will be introduced to this dramatic era in our nation's history through photographs, songs and interviews with people who lived through the Dust Bowl..

Hard Lines, Soft Sell - Life during the Great Depression - Students will explore the social, political, and artistic climate of the Great Depression. They will conduct surveys and interviews, and create and publish a variety of media about the Depression.

12 Great Ideas/Activities for teaching the Great Depression - You can help your students understand the causes and the effects of the Great Depression as well as the impact that event has on their lives today. Introduce them to the people who lived it with the following activities from Education World.

Primary Source Documents:

New Deal Network Photo Library - Over 5000 Great Depression era images from the National Archives, the FDR Library and many other sources.


The New Deal Network: Database of Great Depression Primary Documents - The New Deal Network, an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s, is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Development of the NDN was funded in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.


Dear Mrs. Roosevelt - Lesson plans about the thousands of letters Mrs. Roosevelt received from young people asking for help during the Depression. Students learn how to use primary source documents .


An Oral History of the Great Depression: this classic of oral history features the voices of men and women who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. It includes accounts by congressmen C. Wright Patman and Hamilton Fish, as well as failed presidential candidate Alf M. Landon, who recalls what it was like to be governor of Kansas in 1933.

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