Fourth Grade
Unit 2 | Select Websites
Topic: Timelines
- Basic lines
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/connections_n2/great_depression.html - Dust Bowl focus
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/timeline/index.html
Topic: Background Resources
- The New Deal Network
- How the Depression Affected Children -- A series of primary sources on the New Deal Network
- Indexed links to various websites on the Great Depression.
http://users.snowcrest.net/jmike/20sdep.html
http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm#20s
http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm#30s - Brief essay descriptions of Great Depression topics.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html - Focus on the Dust Bowl history.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/ - Oral Histories from the Federal Writer’s Project 1936-38
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html - President Hoover
http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/hoover_dam/splash.html
http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery06/gallery06.html
http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/hoover_and_the_depression/index.html - Lomax -- Roots Music Recordings from the South
http://memory.loc.gov/learn//collections/lomax/index.html - Oral History -- Voices from the Dust Bowl – Migrant Workers
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/vdb/index.html - Oral Histories form the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1940
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/wpa/history.html - WPA Posters
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/poster/index.html - FDR’s First Inaugural Address
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/inaug/froos1.htm - New Deal Network – Documents, art, poetry, music
http://newdeal.feri.org/ - Great Depression Art Gallery
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm - Photos 1935-1945
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/fsa/index.html - Color Photos 1939-1945
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/fsac/index.html - Washington D.C. 1923-1959
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/hor/history.html - Jazz Age Photos
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html - Sheet Music
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/hasheet/index.html - Blues and Gospel recordings
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html - Chicago Daily News Photos
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html
Topic: Concepts in Economics
- Consumer Price Index: 1913 - Present, Bureau of Labor Statistics
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt - Frequently Asked Questions: about CPI, from Bureau and Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm - Inflation Calculator: you choose initial year and cost and future year, BLS
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl - Purchasing Power: British Pound, 1264 to 2002, from Economic History Services
http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/ - Purchasing Power: U.S. dollar, from 1665 to 2002, from Economic History Services
http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerusd/ - What is its Relative Value?: from 1789 to 2002, five ways to make comparisons, from EHS
http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/compare/
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