Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources Pack

Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources Pack

<b>The Primary Sources series is the winner of the 2015 Academics’ Choice Awards for the 2015 Smart Book Award in recognition of mind-building excellence</b>. The <b><i>Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources</b></i> is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history of the Great Depression & New Deal. Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5” X 11” card stock.<br /><br />We have created a <b>FREE</b> Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This <b>FREE</b> Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click HERE to download the <b>FREE</b> Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.<br /><br /><b><i>The Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources</b></i> will help your students build common core skills including: <br /><br />• Analysis<br />• Critical Thinking<br />• Point of View<br />• Compare and Contrast<br />• Order of Events<br />• And Much More! <br /><br />Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials! <br /><br />The 20 <b><i>Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources</b></i> are: <br />1. Photograph of a crowd outside the New York Stock Exchange after the crash – 1929<br />2. Photograph of unemployed men waiting outside a soup kitchen in Chicago – February 1931<br />3. Photograph of a crowd at New York’s American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression – 1931<br />4. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt talking to a farmer in Warm Springs, Georgia – 1932<br />5. Photograph of workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps constructing a road – 1933<br />6. Letter regarding the funding for the Civilian Conservation Corps – April 5, 1933<br />7. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act of 1935 – August 14, 1935<br />8. Photograph of a “Hoover wagon” - used by farmers to save on gasoline – 1935<br />9. Photograph of Oklahoma Dust Bowl refugees – San Fernando, California – June 1935<br />10. Photograph of Florence Thompson with several of her children during the Dust Bowl – entitled “Migrant Mother” - February 1936<br />11. Photograph of a farmer and his sons walking in a dust storm – Cimarron County, Oklahoma – April 1936<br />12. Photograph of buried machinery in Dallas, South Dakota, during the Dust Bowl – May 13, 1936<br />13. Photograph of a poor mother and her children during the Great Depression – Elm Grove, California – August 1936<br />14. Photograph of construction on the Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam in Oregon – Public Works Administration project – October 24, 1936<br />15. Poster advertising Social Security benefits – 1938<br />16. Photograph of William Gropper’s “Construction of a Dam” mural – 1939<br />17. Photograph of an anti-relief protest sign near Davenport, Iowa – 1940<br />18. Advertisement for the Workers Service Program in Rockford, Illinois – part of the Work Project Administration – 1941<br />19. Photograph of a girl pumping water from a well that is her town’s sole water supply – project of the Tennessee Valley Authority – 1942<br />20. Map of the Tennessee Valley Authority – 1942<br /><br />Your students will: <br /><br />• think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history. <br /><br />• participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations. <br /><br />• integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events. <br /><br />• experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.