Unit 2 - Out of the Dust

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The Dust Bowl and The Great Depression

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The Dust Bowl and The Great Depression

The Dust Bowl: A Film by Ken Burns | PBSThe Dust Bowl chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. Full film now streaming.

10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust BowlExplore 10 surprising facts about America's epic drought disaster—the Dust Bowl.

Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in

A Man-Made Ecological Disaster | The Dust Bowl | PBS LearningMediaThe Dust Bowl was the greatest man-made ecological disaster in the history of the United States. It encompassed a region 150,000 square miles long, across Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandles, and parts of Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico. A combination of aggressive and poor farming techniques, coupled with drought conditions in the region and high winds created massive dust storms that drove thousands from their homes and created a large migrant population of poor, rural Americans during the 1930s. In the activities contained within this media gallery, students will screen a short clip from the film, "The Dust Bowl," view primary source images, and create a newspaper article detailing the events of Black Sunday. Learning Objective Students will analyze the effects of natural and man-made conditions on the Great Plains population. About the Author: Eden McCauslin is a Social Studies and English teacher in Chicago Public Schools. Eden previously taught in the District of Columbia Public Schools.

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