Introduction
In this Webquest you will gain a better understanding of the Great Dust Bowl. Not only willl you look at the science behind it, but also the culture of the people living through it.
Task
As you go through the various links I want you to write down four interesting facts about the Dust Bowl. There should be facts about the science as well as the culture on your paper. Think about what elements of you research can be used in your upcoming story.
Process
Go through the links below with your partner, pay attention to how these people lived, and how they must have felt.
Black Sunday: April 14th 1935
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dus…
Arizona
When you click on the link below you will see this on the left of the screen:
Click on the "Stream Audio"
http://www.loc.gov/item/toddbib000194/
Photographs:
As you looks through these pictures ask yourself these questions:
What can you say about the buildings of the time?
How about their clothes?
What do you think daily life was like?
Read the titles of these pictures:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34104/
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b38486/
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34266/
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.03054/
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/photos/
F.M's Letter:
http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/fm1137.htm
This Land is Your Land
Click on the link below, then click on the lyrics in the middle of the pages.
Pay attention the where the green arrows are.
You will recogize the song, it was written in 1956, but we still sing it today.
http://screencast.com/t/eegxrYi2
Evaluation
What were the most interesting things you learned from looking/listening to all of this stuff about the Dust Bowl?
Discuss with your partner, and write down four of your conclusions to turn into me.
(Please use complete sentences.)
