Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- What caused the Great Depression and the effect it had on the people of the United States.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Examine cause and effect to see relationships between people, places, ideas, and events.
- Use map skills to locate places of historical significance.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There were many causes and effects of the Great Depression on the people of the U.S.
Vocabulary
- depression
- economic failure
- Hoovervilles
- migration
- Dust Bowl
- New Deal
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- river systems
