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Great Depression Museum Webquest
Students may use these or other sites to discover objects for their Great Depression presentation. This may be a helpful jumping off point.
Great Depression: American Cultural History http://www.geocities.com/bettye_sutton/greatdepression.html
Songs of The Great Depression http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/cherries.html
America in the 1930's http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html
Photographs of The Great Depression http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm
The Dust Bowl http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/dust.html
The Great Depression on African-Americans http://mtungsten.freeservers.com/
The New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm
A Decade of Hardship http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/
Photographs by:
Ben Shahn: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap01.html
Arthur Rothstein: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap05.html
Walker Evans: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-in/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@filreq(+@field(AUTHOR+@band(Evans,+Walker,+1903+1975,+))+@field(COLLID+fsa))
Dorthea Lange: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html
Photos of Segregation: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/085_disc.html
Some other sites for consideration:
Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy Web Quest
prepared by M. Kramer -- 12/8/2004
DIRECTIONS:
Use the following websites to complete the activities and answer the questions on your webquest handout.
Find and View Pictures of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
Visit the American Foundation for the Blind's website: http://www.afb.org. The organization has a special section about Helen Keller--you can access it by using the link on the right side of the home page for the American Foundation for the Blind. Or, you can use this link to go directly to the Helen Keller pages: http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=1
Using the link to photographs found on the right hand side of the page, find and view a picture of Helen Keller from 1887.
Learn about Braille
Visit the American Federation for the Blind's Braille Bug: http://www.afb.org/braillebug/
Complete the activities listed on the Webquest at this site.
Learn about Sign Language
Visit the ASL Fingerspelling website: http://where.com/scott.net/asl/
Complete the activities listed on the Webquest at this site.
Learn about the Deafblind Manual Alphabet
Visit James Gallagher's website on deafblindness: http://www.deafblind.com/index.html
Complete the activities listed on the Webquest at this site.
This page was added on: 12/8/2004
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