Great Depression Exploring History Through Primary Sources

ISBN: 0-7439-3935-2

Price: $129.00

Use original documents and photographs as well as letters, maps, cartoons, and posters to help students explore the past. Primary sources provide unique insight into the lives of people in different time periods. Each kit includes: 16 photographs and primary source documents--photo cards with background information, discussion questions, and suggested activities printed on the back; CD with photographs, other primary sources student activity sheets, and extension activities; and 80 page Teacher's Guide including lesson plans, background information, a wide variety of student activities, and a document-based assessment section to help students prepare for essays found on many standardized tests. Each kit also meets the NCSS standards for primary source documents. Photographs: Black Tuesday on Wall Street; Unemployed man asking for a job; Men from the Bonus Army; Farm foreclosure auction; Dust storm in Kansas; Migrant mother in California; Run on the banks; Roosevelt giving a Fireside Chat. Primary Sources: A Chicken for Every Pot advertisement; Presidential political cartoons; Little Orphan Annie comic strips; Depression recipes; A mother's letter to Eleanor Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt's DAR resignation letter; Poster for government housing; "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" sheet music. This series has received the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers EdPress.