Radio Days: A Webquest
Back before there were televisions and computers, there was radio. Families of the 1930s and 1940s would gather around the radio and listen to their favorite programs such as Little Orphan Annie, Amos and Andy, The Guiding Light, and The Shadow. Millions of Americans tuned in daily to their favorite programs, just as today we tune in to our favorite television shows. Radio allowed the listener to create their own images of characters and settings, a luxury that we no longer have in these days of television. Take a journey back to the "Golden Age of Radio" as you learn about Radio Days.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
You are beginning a Scavenger Hunt in which you will gather information about The Great Depression. You will learn about famous people, places, buildings, historical events and games. When you are done with the Scavenger Hunt, you will take a graded quiz about what you have learned in your quest. Good luck, have fun, and learn!
The Great Depression Webquest
The Wall Street stock-market crash of 1929 precipitated the Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in the history of the United States. The depression had devastating effects on the country. The stock market was in shambles. Many banks couldn't continue to operate. Farmers fell into bankruptcy. One-quarter of the working force, or 13 million people, were unemployed in 1932, and this was only the beginning. The depression lasted over a decade, with hundreds of thousands of Americans losing their jobs, businesses failing, and financial institutions collapsing.
My America: A Pictorial Essay Project
A little known U.S. government department, The Department of Community Life, has approached you and several others upon hearing about your excellent skills in photography, writing, and social interaction within your community. This department wants to hire you to document your community as part of an effort to educate and publicize the different parts of America most Americans don't see or know about.
The Great Depression
In this Web Quest, students will research not only the causes and important events of the Great Depression, but also examine the personal struggles and challenges of a nation and its people in one of the worst socio-economic periods of the twentieth century.
The Scottsboro Boys' Trials: Race, Gender, and Lies
Students investigate the main trials by reading and analyzing primary sources. Differentiated research products provide scaffolded writing assignments for students of varying abilities. Assessments are by TAKS rubrics.
Decade of The Great Depression
You and your team of reporters have been assigned to develop a retrospective newsreel for the 1930’s. The retrospective will be used as part of a newsreel informing the pubic about the Great Depression and New Deal and its positive and negative affects on the United States. Your team is assigned the task of researching, writing, and producing segments for the newsreel. The segments should include information about how people from all walks of life in the United States experienced the economic and political changes during the Great Depression.
The Great Depression Webquest
The Great Depression in the United States was the worst and longest economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world, lasting from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s. This decline spread to many industrialized countries, since countries were dependent on each other for economic stability. There were many contributing factors that led to the Depression. The main factor was the misdistributions of wealth during the 1920s. Money was unequally divided between the rich and the poor, between Europe and America. This created an imbalance in wealth, which ultimately led to economic instability. Another contributing factor was the Stock Market Crash of 1929, which bankrupted thousands of investors, and destroyed people's confidence in the economy. Many people were left unemployed due to rapid declines in production and selling of goods. A large number of people lost their homes, businesses, jobs, and spirit. Many people depended on charities for food, clothing, and shelter.
The New Deal
In teams of four, students take on the roles of historian, political scientist, geographer, and economist. Each team is to present a comprehensive examination of the New Deal including all four perspectives. Presentations should be prepared speeches with graphic illustrations. Options include the creation of illustrative posters or (if available) electronic slide show presentations. Teachers may decide to give team awards within a class or school-wide for quality work.
Great Depression/New Deal Imagine you are living during the Great Depression, in the years between the stock market crash in October, 1929, and the implementation of the” New Deal” proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt. You are a history professor at a small university, and you have access to newspapers containing articles about the economy, and other representations of the effects of the economic depression and you see pictures from the Dust Bowl. Realizing the significance of the difficult times during which you live, you begin to collect these items in a scrapbook, with the idea of writing a book about these experiences since you maintain the hope that circumstances will improve within your lifetime. Prepare your scrapbook which will represent your view of the political and economic climate you are experiencing, as you observe the approaches of the government under President Hoover and under the “New Deal” proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt.
My America: A Pictorial Essay Project
A little known U.S. government department, The Department of Community Life, has approached you and several others upon hearing about your excellent skills in photography, writing, and social interaction within your community. This department wants to hire you to document your community as part of an effort to educate and publicize the different parts of America most Americans don't see or know about.
