US History · Week 19 · The Great Depression and World War II
The Crash and the Human Toll
Students examine the causes of the Great Depression and how families coped and identify healthy ways to handle stress about money and the future.
- Students will
- Students explain principal causes of the Great Depression and early responses by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, and describe how families coped.
- SEL skill
- Choose healthy ways to handle stress about money and the future
- What it looks like
- Students identify healthy ways to handle stress about money and the future, with hope as a strength.
- Content focus
- The crash and the human toll
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Self-management
Self-management is handling your stress, emotions, and actions in healthy ways so you can keep moving toward your goals. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 11.6.2: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 11: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (standard 11.6, item 2)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HI1 Show the connections between particular historical events and larger social, economic, and political trends. (Historical Interpretation)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.14.9-12 Analyze multiple and complex causes and effects of events in the past.
- Literacy in history: RH.11-12.3 Analyze a series of events and determine whether earlier events caused later ones.
Fits these textbook chapters
- American History: Reconstruction to the Present, Module 9: The Great Depression
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 30: The Causes of the Great Depression
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 31: The Response to the Economic Collapse
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 32: The Human Impact of the Great Depression
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 33: The New Deal and Its Legacy
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