1. It costs a dime to look through this Bausch and Lomb high power telescope Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Zoom In Inquiry

2. Who is in this picture? Where do you think this picture was taken? What do you think is happening in this picture?

3. What new evidence can be found in this picture? What do you notice about the background?

4. What new evidence do you see? What do you think the man is doing?

5. TITLE: Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Rothstein, A. (1936). Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Library of Congress: American Memory, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection.Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand.

6. This photograph is an example of wind EROSION. EROSION is the movement of broken down pieces of rock by wind, water or ice. Rothstein, A. (1936). Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Library of Congress: American Memory, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection.Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand.

7. In the below pictures, wind is picking up dirt and moving it, causing the sand to form piles or dunes. These pictures were taken during the 1930s when the south-central United States became known as the Dust Bowl. Grass had been removed from the land to farm, but because of a massive drought, the soil dried out and was easily blown away. Wind erosion can usually be prevented by planting trees and grasses because their roots help hold the soil in place.

8. What do these images say about the impact of humans on nature? What about the impact of nature on humans? What questions did the images leave you with? Rothstein, A. (1936). Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Library of Congress: American Memory, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection.Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Rothstein, A. (1936). Results of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection.Results of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Rothstein, A. (1936). The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas. Library of Congress: American Memory, America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945.The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas. Unknown. (1934 or 1935). Dust storm, Kansas. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.Dust storm, Kansas.