The Great Depression Lesson and Notes Activity

This Great Depression Lesson and Guided Notes is the perfect addition to your social studies classroom! This Great Depression Lesson Includes both a PowerPoint and Google Slides™ version that covers information like the Stock Market Crash, the New Deal, and the Dust Bowl.

This Great Depression Lesson Includes:

• 77 slides of information that is visually engaging and include many pictures, website links, thought-provoking questions, and even a song! I use it to teach my fifth graders about this concept, but it is appropriate for older students as well.
• Guided Notes in both a digital and printable format

This Great Depression Lesson Covers the Following Topics:

1. Problems in the Economy

2. The Stock Market Crash

3. Hardships that people faced during the Great Depression

4. Herbert Hoover

5. People's stories from the Great Depression

6. Distractions During the Great Depression: Margaret Mitchell, Jesse Owens, and Duke Ellington

7. Franklin D. Roosevelt

8. The New Deal and its programs (AAA, CCC, WPA, TVA, SSB, REA)

9. The Dust Bowl

10. Migrant Workers

The guided notes include short answer questions for students to complete throughout the course of the lesson in order to integrate writing into your social studies curriculum.

Here are some other Roaring Twenties and Great Depression materials:

• Roaring Twenties and Great Depression Test
• The Roaring Twenties Lesson
• The Stock Market Project
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