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Debbie Moore

New Deal Network - 2 views

newdeal.feri.org

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  • Debbie Moore on 20 Nov 09
     
    The New Deal Network is a site that I am using in preparing my curricular unit. The site has an archive with documents such as the Fire Side Chats with President F. Roosevelt, photographs, and audio tapes. I like this site because it really takes you to that place in time so that you can see and hear what was going on in the culture as well as in the government. The site also has lesson plans and resource links for educators.
  • Debbie Moore on 20 Nov 09
     
    Alan, that is so funny I just posted and noticed that you too had posted this site. It's great, don't you think? I am actually using a Fire Side Chat from FDR for one of my socratic seminars in my curricular unit. There is also a lesson plan about arts and the depression that I am going to adapt for the unit.
Alan Edwards

New Deal Network - 1 views

newdeal.feri.org/default.cfm

New Deal primary documents research

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  • Alan Edwards on 20 Nov 09
     
    Created by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and historians, the New Deal Network is a great online resource for the era. Check out the documents sections where they have materials organized by topic. (e.g. Japanese Internment, Tennessee Valley Authority, Anti-Semitism). This could be an important resource for teachers preparing lessons as well as student research.
Jonathon Gordon

The Great Depression - 2 views

www.nps.gov/...great-depression.htm

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shared by Jonathon Gordon on 03 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Numbers soon proved the optimists incorrect. The depression steadily worsened. By spring of 1933, when FDR took the oath of office, unemployment had risen from 8 to 15 million (roughly 1/3 of the non-farmer workforce) and the gross national product had decreased from $103.8 billion to $55.7 billion. Forty percent of the farms in Mississippi were on the auction block on FDR's inauguration day.
    • Jonathon Gordon
      Jonathon Gordon on 03 Oct 10
       
      To the right is a great picture provided by the FDR Library showing the struggles of families who suffered from the dust bowl. Extremely useful in any classroom application on this subject. 
  • Many sank into despair and shame after they could not find jobs. The suicide rates increased from 14 to 17 per 100,000. Protest that did occur was local, not national: "farm holidays," neighbors of foreclosed farmers refusing to bid on farms at auction, neighbors moving evicted tenants' furniture back in, and local hunger marches.
    • Jonathon Gordon
      Jonathon Gordon on 03 Oct 10
       
      The site uses archived information from the Franklin and Eleanor national Libraries. 
  • Jonathon Gordon on 03 Oct 10
     
    This website provided by the National Parks Service provides information on the Great Depression. It has great photos that would supplement any lesson plan on the subject of the great depression, the grapes of wrath, or the dust bowl. 
Laura Wood

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - 5 views

www.free.ed.gov

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shared by Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09 - Cached
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      Okay so there isn't quite as much information on this site as I was hoping there would be. You CAN search by time period within the United States History. So if you're working through a US History text, this might be a great one stop shop to hit up and see what sorts of primary documents are available in a wealth of federal sites. For example, 1607-1763 has links to colonial documents from: the National Park Service; the Smithsonian; the National Endowment for the Humanities; History Matters; the National Archives, etc You can also search by US History topics (Government, Famous People, Wars, or Ethnic Groups . . . hmmm) or by World Studies. Each of these branch out into more subtopics. It's worth checking out.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      Haha. My new web browser hates Diigo. This is supposed to say "Animations" So the animations page is super science heavy. They do have a couple of links to global warming and environmental issues and a link to a Napolean Game where you can wage wars and see how well you do at Waterloo . . .
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      There are 135 Primary documents. I would recommend searching for these in a different way.
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      The video section is also worth checking out. 30 links to videos, some are about science but some are clips of Roosevelt or McKinley. Again, US History stuff. The only place I've found World History stuff is specifically under the Social Studies, World History links.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      This lists all of the topics contained on the site in each of the subheadings (Of particular interest: World History, US History, US Time Periods. Check it out!
  • Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
     
    FREE is a website pool of teaching and learning resources from various branches of the federal government. From the website: "More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. . . . FREE is maintained by Peter Kickbush and Kirk Winters, Office of Communications and Outreach, with support from the Development Services Team in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Education."
  • Lindsay Andreas on 23 Oct 09
     
    This site is amazing, I was just playing around with it and I am definitely using some of the resources for my unit. :)
Laura Wood

FBI Youth - Home - 0 views

www.fbi.gov/...6th12th.htm

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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      So clearly the coolest link on this webpage is the "History" link. This will link you to the history of the FBI which is interesting in and of itself BUT also contains some links to primary documents. For example there is a link in 1966 called "six civil rights activists murdered" that takes you to the FBI file of the murder investigation. It might be really neat to have students look at this file and look at other accounts of this incident to understand how police/FBI officers interact with communities and crime. There's another neat account under June 1933 of the Kansas City Massacre!
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      The "FBI Investigates" tab is a little like the spy museum. It takes you through two cases, what happened and how investigators solved the crime. For any CSI - philes this might be some great info.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      "FBI Adventures" is a little not as cool as I'd hoped. While they do give brief snapshots of country profiles, students don't get to actually investigate anything on their own. What they Could do is begin to see how even crime is globalized and how countries now have to work together to protect citizens - an interesting angle on globalization/global studies.
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      The "SA Challenge" is tragically lame. It's basically a cyber scavenger hunt to find the answers to questions about the website. Then you self check. If you find all the answers you get to be the director of the FBI - at least that's what the website says. Lame.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      Again, "Games" are tragically low tech and pretty lame. Word hunt, etc.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      "A day in the life" would be good for any students who were thinking about becoming FBI agents. Always good to give students career choices.
  • Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
     
    FBI's youth website. Probably designed to entice kids to want to be in, support and trust the FBI. Some very cool stuff (no lesson plans). Check out the super rad "History" link!
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