Great Depression & New Deal Lesson Bundle

ENGAGING GREAT DEPRESSION & NEW DEAL LESSONS! 

THESE RESOURCES START WITH THESE 3 HISTORY FOR HUMANS VIDEOS:

1. The Stock Market Crash & Causes of the Great Depression
   
2. Surviving the Dust Bowl & Great Depression
3. The New Deal- FDR's First 100 Days

BONUS RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES:

Life in the Great Depression Stations

Dorothea Lange Photo Investigation: Are her photos documenting history or yellow journalism?

FDR's Inaugural Address SCOAPS analysis

Each video-lesson includes

WHAT STUDENTS LEARN

The first episode covers how the stock market crash triggered the great depression  but it also unpacks the other causes of the Great Depression. The next episode teaches the amazing story of the Dust Bowl and how it affected families living through it while also unpacking how average Americans were impacted by the Great Depression. The last episode covers the transformative first 100 days and President Roosevelt's New Deal and how it forever transformed the American government.

ACTIVITIES IN THIS BUNDLE

Each episode also has an extension lesson to dive deeper into the topic that helps build historical thinking skills.

1. A stations activity to learn the major causes of the Great Depression

2. Analyze primary sources: a song, a letter, and photographs to understand how the Dust Bowl impacted Americans. They then have to write a letter themselves as if they lived through the Dust Bowl.

3. Amazing 'Shark-Tank' like lesson where students evaluate New Deal Programs, scrap one, advocate for one, and then create their own!

BONUS ACTIVITIES 

4. Life in the Great Depression Stations: Five engaging stations including- music of the great depression, "life in a Hooverville", charity and pride, the Dust Bowl, and hardships on everyday families. 

5. Dorothea Lange Photo-Investigation: Students analyze Lange's famous photographs and one text to determine if her photographs accurately teach us about the past or if they are misleading. 

6. FDR's First Inaugural Address SCOAPS: Students read, annotate, and analyze this primary source.

All lessons have supports and scaffolds for diverse learners and answer keys for everything! ✅

To learn more, you can check out the individual lessons for this unit here.