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Sample Student Compare/Contrast Wiki Page

Students can build Wiki pages where they collect photographs, (including ones they take themselves) and compare and contrast historic hard times, with today's.  Students can poise questions, post research and debate issues all via Wiki collaboration.

Our Times

The New York Times - July 2, 2008
Car Sales at Ten Year Low

What do low car sales indicate about the economic downturn?  What factors might contribute to automobile sales.  During the Great Depression, what happened with manufacturers inventories.  What are inventories like today?

The washingtonpost.com - Hard Times, Travis Fox
From New Deal to a Great Deal
How did the mortgage crisis contribute to the economic downturn?  What is the rate of foreclosure in the country today, what was it during the Great Depression?  What is the government recommending to solve this crisis?  What was put in place to solve the housing situation during The Great Depression?





The Great Depression

Calisphere:
Title: Untitled (Family Eating by Car), Creator/Contributor: Dorothea Lange. Date:ca. 1935, Contributing Institution:Oakland Museum of California

Calisphere:

Title: Hooverville, Sacramento, California. Some of Hooverville's younger citizens. Contributing Institution:The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.