Goldie's History Kit : Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, Grade 4
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Goldie's History Kit : Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, Grade 4
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Goldie's History Kits are digital kits created by the State Historical Society of Iowa and were developed for K-5 educators to meet the Iowa Core Standards for Social Studies and Literacy. Related to the Primary Source Sets and created with a Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) grant from the Library of Congress, these kits encourage students to develop deeper connections to Iowa's history. The following educational tools are included in each kit: Read Iowa History Lessons Read Aloud Books Object Photographs and Videos from the State Historical Museum of Iowa Think Likeà Cards https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/goldies-history-kits Read Iowa History are free and downloadable lessons for K-5 educators that provide easy-to-follow instruction to integrate Primary Source Sets and the Iowa Core Standards for Social Studies and Literacy. The Read Iowa History lessons were developed by the State Historical Society of Iowa and created with a Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) grant from the Library of Congress. Read Iowa History utilizes the compelling and one supporting question from the elementary-level Primary Source Sets. Educator materials include: Primary Sources Lessons Worksheets Historical Introduction to the Topic Assessments Vocabulary Lists/Cards https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/read-iowa-history Overview Students will investigate the time period of the Great Depression through a variety of primary and secondary sources. They will use the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) to generate questions and then investigate primary and secondary sources to gain an understanding of how people, including the government, dealt with the devastation of The Dust Bowl. Students will analyze sources, evaluate information, gather evidence and make claims about the ideas of scarcity, the New Deal, poverty and how farmers dealt with the environmental changes. https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-ghk-gd-manual-08.2021.pdf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7beKoAwEZM.
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