Pathfinder:  The Great Depression and the New Deal

Step 1: Define your task: Look at the assignment/essential question.

Step 2: What materials might be useful for the project?   Books, Encyclopedias, Online Encyclopedias, Websites.

Step 3: Find the material.

Books:  A number of books have been placed on the cart.  Look at the table of contents.  Some of the books are arranged chronologically.  Others have chronologies somewhere in the book.  Some books are arranged by topic.

General Encyclopedias:  World Book.  R 031 Wor  or  Encyclopedia Americana R 031 Enc.  Look up New Deal  or Great Depression.

Suggestions for using  Subscription Research Databases:

• Grolier’s online encyclopedias:
  • Select Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
  • Click on the Timelines button on the left.
  • Scroll down until you see 1900-1950 and click on Democracy and Dictatorship.
  • Click on the pink bar that says United States: Jazz Age and Depression, 1919-1939.
  • Encyclopedia articles about this time period are listed by date.  Note the article listed under 1929 about the Depression.
  • The online encyclopedia is an excellent source of pictures
•   Gale’s Student Resource Center:  
  • Type Great Depression into the search box.  Items listed under Reference and Multimedia are most useful for this project.
  • Type 1930s into the search box.  Most of the entries shown are from the online version of DISCovering U.S. History or American Decades. 
  • Items listed as “Event Overview” are best for this assignment.
  • Be sure to look under Multimedia for great pictures.

Websites:  The following website is a good sources of photographs:

 

America from the Great Depression to World War II:   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

 

Step 4: Use the material. Read it and take notes.  CITE YOUR SOURCES!!!

Step 5: Synthesize the information: Prepare and present  story board.  Fill out citation sheets.

Step 6: Evaluate: Does the paper you wrote answer the essential question? Have you met the requirements for the assignment?