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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Federal Theatre Project

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research the Federal Theatre Project and assess its accomplishments. Working in groups, they identify both successes and failure of the project and record their findings on a chart. Students explain the credibility of the...
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Graphic
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Details on how the Great Depression affected the nation and how Roosevelt's New Deal created many relief and recovery programs to try to bring economic stability to the nation.
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Handout
New Deal Network

New Deal Network: Great Depression and the Arts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Part of a wonderful website devoted to researching and teaching the Great Depression and the New Deal. These pages are focused specifically on the arts during this time.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: The Hundred Days Fdr

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed facts and a summary of FDR's first hundred days (March 9 to June 16, 1933) when 15 major acts were passed in an attempt to relieve the devastating effects of the Great Depression.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Second New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the programs and reforms launched in the period of the Second New Deal that provided for social and economic legislation to benefit the mass of working people.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on FDR's New Deal provides detailed facts and a summary of a series of relief programs during the Great Depression.