1. Find a seat at a table with supplies
Get your binder
Find a seat at a table with supplies

2. Bellwork
The Dust Bowl experiences of the Oklahoma farmers during the Great Depression demonstrated the
effect of geography on people’s lives
success of government farm subsidies
limitation of civil liberties during times of crisis
result of the Indian Removal Act

3. Standard
D.1.f. Explain the economic, environmental, and social impact of the Great Depression on American society
Learning Targets
I can explain the economic impact of the Great Depression
I can explain the environmental impact of the Great Depression
I can explain the social impact of the Great Depression

4. Economic impacts

5. Introduction 1. Begin today’s lesson by passing out a playing card to each student face down. Tell them not to look at their card until you say it is time. 2. Give each student (or small group of students) a six sided number cube. Tell them that they can now turn over their playing card and each person will then roll the number cube one time. 3. Explain to the students that they will be creating a “family” for class today. If their card is red; they are not married. If the card is black; they are married. The number cube represents how many children they have. If they roll a 6, they will have 0 children. If they roll a 1-5, the number of children is the respective number of the roll. 4. The students then get to choose any state in the U.S. to live in. 5. After they’ve decided this, the teacher uses an overhead or large map of the U.S. to plot where each student decided to live. 6. Next, number the students off 1-4. Tell the students that instead of living in today’s time, they will be living in the 1930’s. 7. Call out a number between 1 and 4. Each of these students are now unemployed and have to figure out a way to support their family without income. 8. Students will be told that the average income is $164/month, that they will need to pay about $20/month on house payments, $15/month for a car payment, and $1/week/person in their family. They must add up their total cost per month and determine how much they will need to make in order to support their families.
PLC play the game for students to understand the economic impact. Need a deck of cards and dices.
Intro game

7. Environmental Impact

8. Environmental Impact http://video.pbs.org/video/2250514396/
How did the dust impact the peoples everyday lives?
Black Blizzard: a severe dust storm
Massive migration of Okies from the Great Plains to California and other parts of the U.S.
The Grapes of Wrath: a novel that won acclaim for its description of the experience of Dust Bowl migrants
Great Flood of 1936: devastating flooding in New England that resulted from a series of record-breaking storms
Environmental Impact

9. PLC:
Create 8 Stations (or 8 small ones):
Each station needs:
Station Facts (A-H)
Photo (A-H)
Document (A-H)
Students will only complete 4 states for scrap book
Scrap will be labeled as 7C and put in notebook

10. You will create a scrapbook about the Great Depression based on accounts by ordinary Americans…
Step 1 – Build Your Scrapbook
Draw a horizontal line across the center of each page (front and back). Tape or glue 1 of 4 photographs provided along the left edge of each space.

11. Step 2 – You will pick 4 states to complete your scrap book on.
Step 3- Add the following to your scrapbook at each station:
A title above the photograph that identifies the state featured
One sentence to summarize facts from the reading.
A quotation from the primary source at the station that describes at least one way people endured the hardships of the depression
Additional creative touches to make your scrapbook realistic, such as a sketch of an item you picked up during your visit to that state

12. Social Impact

13. Great Depression Vocab
Hooverville: popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it.
Soup Kitchens: serve free meals to the needy
Breadlines: a line of needy people waiting for handouts of free food
Public Assistance: aid, in the form of money, goods, or services, that a government provides to those in need

15. Label paper has 7Y– Write a Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
Your letter must have the following:
An appropriate date, salutation, and closing.
A brief introduction summarizing the states you visited and the types of people you met.
A description of your visit to at least two states. For each state, include
information on the hardships people faced during the Depression and the ways in which they endured those hardships.
a quotation and one or more facts from the reading.
Key Content Terms you learned today
At least four of these words: betrayal, change, depressed, desperation, destitute, dreadful, encourage, honorable, hope, ideals, plague, pride, self-respect, shame, stress, suffer, worth.
A conclusion summarizing your thoughts about how ordinary Americans endured the hardships they faced during this time period.- Turn in once you are finished
If you have time.