SS10.6.5

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 6

SS10.6.5
Explain causes and effects of the Great Depression on the people of the United States.

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

COS Examples

Examples: economic failure, loss of farms, rising unemployment, building of Hoovervilles

Aligned Learning Resources

Alabama Farm Life in the Great Depression

The Scoop on the 1930's

That's a Wrap About the Great Depression!

Challenged Children of the 1930s

The Dust Bowl Primary Sources

Lesson 1: Out of the Darkness - TVA & The Great Depression

Aspects of the New Deal

Exploration of the Great Depression in Of Mice and Men

Design by Adaptive Theme