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Fourth Grade

Unit 2 | Select Websites

Topic: Timelines

  • The Great Depression
  • Dust Bowl


Topic: Background Resources

  • How the Depression Affected Children 
  • Indexed links to various websites on the 1920's.
  • Indexed links to various websites on the 1930's
  • Focus on the Dust Bowl history.
  • Oral Histories from the Federal Writer’s Project 1936-38
  • President Hoover
  • Oral History -- Voices from the Dust Bowl – Migrant Workers
  • Oral Histories form the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1940
  • WPA Posters
  • FDR’s First Inaugural Address
  • Great Depression Art Gallery
  • Soil Conservation in the U.S. -- Photos 1935-1945
  • Jazz Age Photos
  • Blues and Gospel recordings


Topic: Concepts in Economics

  • Inflation Calculator: you choose initial year and cost and future year
  • Purchasing Power: U.S. dollar, from 1665 to 2002, from Economic History Services
  • What is its Relative Value?: from 1789 to 2002, five ways to make comparisons

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