Hoovervilles

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depress/hoovers.html
  (Definition of Hoovervilles and Pictures)
  
• http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/hstaa432/lesson_19/hooverville.html
  (City Hooverville)
  
• http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/hoover_bio/pres.htm
  (Hoover’s time during the depression)
  
• http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/
  (Excellent child friendly site with Depression, Hoover, life during the times, etc.)
  

Great Depression

• http://www.42explore2.com/depresn.htm
  This is a comprehensive site for information about The Great Depression
  
• http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/depression.htm
  Good links to sites of the Great Depression
  
• http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3717
  (Explanation of above Great Depression)
  
• http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-53467--,00.html
  (Web site of Then and Now Great Depression)
  
• http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html
  (What life was like during the Great Depression; effects of Great Depression; Michigan)
  
• http://library.thinkquest.org/J001569/
  (Kids Think-quest; excellent effects and causes of the Great Depression; great deal of math integration)
  
• http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/page1.htm
  (Site for kids that details causes and effects of depression)
  
• http://library.thinkquest.org/3483/Rhist/gd.html
  (Information on Black Friday and personal accounts of the Great Depression)
  
• http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/thecrash.htm
  (Information about the crash of ’29)
  
• http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2505
  (Story of music and the Great Depression)
  

Music

• http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/Jazzhome.htm
  (Jazz site with jazz orchestra music to play)
  
• http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/brother.html
  (Brother Can You Spare a Dime lyrics and song)
  
• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/c_w/guthrie.html
  (Woody Guthrie)
  
• http://www.pbs.org/jazz/kids/index.html
  Jazz for Kids
  
• http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_depression.htm
  Ken Burns
  

Lesson Plans for The Great Depression and Related Sites

• http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson147.shtml
  (12 great lesson plans)

• http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=300
  EdSitement Great Depression
  
• http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm
  Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
  
• http://newdeal.feri.org/
  The New Deal

Bud Not Buddy

--John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, and J. Edgar Hoover are among the notorious figures mentioned in the book. Have students research these people and find out when the FBI was formed. What is its primary purpose? Who is the head of the FBI today? What names are currently on the FBI's most wanted list?

Policemen inspect Lefty Lewis's car because they are searching for labor organizers who are sneaking to Grand Rapids from Detroit. Ask students to find out about the history of labor unions and the existence of unions today. Then have the class debate the pros and cons of labor unions.

• http://eduscapes.com/reading/bud/
  Web-based thematic unit
  
• http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/budnotbuddy.html
  Carol Hurst
  
• http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading32/bud.htm
  More Bud, Not Buddy