America from the Great Depression to WWII - American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

Voices from the Dust Bowl - American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

The Dust Bowl - Texas Council for the Humanities Resource Center
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/texas/dustbowl/

Surviving the Dust Bowl - PBS Online (American Experience)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/dustbowl/

Dust Bowl Days - EdSitement - National Endowment for the Humanities
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=300

Migrant Workers - Dorthea Lange
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html

The Dust Bowl Photo Collection
http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html

Group Historical Research Narrated Photo Stories
American Novel - Hanson/Kennedy

This project requires that you find basic information on your topic from several sources, write a summarizing narration, collect 10-15 relevant pictures and find some music. You will be using Photo Story 3, a free product from Microsoft. If you would like to load this onto your computer at home, you will need to:

• Go to the Microsoft page and search for widows media: http://www.microsoft.com/
• Download the latest version (11) of Windows Media Player
• Return to the Microsoft download page, this time searching for Photo Story 3:
• Download Photo Story 3.

Photo Story 3 is loaded on all of the LMTC computers as well as all of the computers in lab 1111. When your group is ready to record the narration, you can check out a headset from the LMTC and record on one of the computers in the back room.

Save your work to your H drive. Make sure that you also save save your group work somewhere that all of the group members can access in the event that you or one of the other group members are not there one day.

When looking for information, try looking in the following places:

The websites on this page

Books in the LMTC

History Study Center – Proquest
http://portal.bigchalk.com/portalweb/home.do
Select "Study Units" and then "American History." Next click on "The United States of America: 1918-1945" and then finally choose "The Great Depression, 1929-1939." There are many photos as well as articles on aspects of the great depression.

Decades Database – Proquest
http://portal.bigchalk.com/portalweb/home.do
Select the "1930s" link and then "Relief, Recovery and Reform" There are a number of pictures and descriptions of aspects of the Great Depression.

Proquest Historical Newspapers
http://portal.bigchalk.com/portalweb/home.do

World Book Encyclopedia Online
http://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/home

Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.school.eb.com/

Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/

Tip: Save all items to one person’s “H” drive including all pictures, music and the project itself.

 

Blank Slides - http://www.jakesonline.org/blankslides.htm