Friday, December 30, 2011

Website Spotlight: Surviving the Dust Bowl


Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl/


The parts of this website which I find particularly useful are the following:

1. Introduction: Surviving the Dust Bowl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/dustbowl-introduction/

2. Mass Exodus from the Plains
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-mass-exodus-plains/

3. Photo Gallery of an eyewitness
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/photogallery/dustbowl/

4. Black Sunday, April 14, 1935
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-black-sunday/

5. Teacher's Guide
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/teachers-resources/dustbowl-teacher-resource/

Make your choice from several wonderful suggestions.


On my Learning Professor wiki, this website fits within the following U.S.History survey course module:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Great+Depression

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