Great Depression Unit Bundle: Lessons, Activities, Timeline and Test SS5H3

Great Depression Unit Bundle

Save yourself HOURS of work! This product has your entire Great Depression unit lessons planned for the month!

Need engaging digital lessons that will anchor your students understanding of the Great Depression standards? This product is filled with no prep, photo-filled digital lessons with notes companions your students will love! Perfect for ESOL Learners!

This product contains:

• 5 Digital Lessons with printable notes companions for each lesson
• 1 set of task cards
• 1 unit test (printable and digital)
• Digital research project
• 1 interactive notebook
• 1 bulletin board timeline display

Variety of ways to use this product:

• The digital lessons can be used as an independent center assignment, small group lesson or whole group activity!
• Task Cards can be used in centers or get your students moving and post the questions around the room or in the hallway!
• Students can use notes on the assessment for differentiation.

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Topics included in this bundle:

1. What is the Stock Market?

a. company

b. corporation

c. investor

d. invest

e. stock

f. share

g. value of stocks

h. stockbroker

2. Stock Market Crash

a. The end of the 1920’s

b. Good Times End

c. What is a stock?

d. Stock Value

e. Stock Market Crash

f. Black Tuesday

g. Borrowing Money

h. Banks Close

i. Hard Times

3. Great Depression

a. unemployment

b. soup kitchens

c. Herbert Hoover

d. Hooverville’s

e. Dust Bowl

f. Migrant Mother

4. New Deal

a. Franklin Roosevelt

b. The New Deal

c. WPA

d. TVA

e. CCC

f. Social Security Administration

5. Culture of the 1930’s

a. Duke Ellington

b. Margaret Mitchell

c. Jesse Owens

File Types:

The slideshow comes in PowerPoint format AND a link to the slideshow in Google Drive so that you can assign it in google classroom. It also comes in an EDITABLE form so you can make changes if you want to.

SS5H3 Explain how the Great Depression and New Deal affected the lives of millions of Americans.

a. Discuss the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, the Dust Bowl, and soup kitchens.

b. Analyze the main features of the New Deal; include the significance of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

c. Discuss important cultural elements of the 1930s; include Duke Ellington, Margaret Mitchell, and Jesse Owens.