Internet Workshop for The Great Depression

 
 

 

Workshop 1

 

  
  This internet workshop will introduce you to our book Bud, Not Buddy. This book takes place in Michigan during the Great Depression. You will have an opportunity to explore information on the Internet. Take notes in your Internet Journal. Come prepared to share your information at our workshop session. We will discuss possible ways of presenting your information (Inspirations, PowerPoint, Graphic Organizer, What Am I Poem, Who Am I Poem, or I Poem). http://www.graphic.org/index.html.

Remember when you are presenting your information, it is good to make sure you have covered Who it is about, What happened, Where, When, Why, and How .

1. Go to the bookmark I have set for the Wall Street Crash and the Depression
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/usa/6wallstreetcrashanddepressionrev1.shtml

Now Click on each of the sites below. Read about several of the causes that are of interest to you. Take notes and be ready to share some of the causes and outcomes (effects) of the depression during workshop.

  1. Why did the Crash start?
  2. Causes of the Wall Street Crash
  3. Outcomes of the Crash

2. Go to the kids thinkquest http://library.thinkquest.org/J001569/

You will click on the Dow Jones Industrial Average | Stock Market Crash | to find out some important information. This will help us to better understand how our country ended up in a depression. You will then click on Whose Fault Is It? to find how all of this information comes together. Take good notes and be ready to share with us all of the information you uncovered.

  
  3. Be a detective. Try to find out who the authors of the website are and where the information comes from. Do you trust these sources? Why or why not? What can you do to make sure that the information you are reading is accurate?