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Title: Virtual Field Trip to the Dust Bowl


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Virtual Field Trip to the Dust Bowl
  • By Rachael Caskey

2
Themes/Concepts
  • People, places, and environment
  • Culture
  • Grade Level Fifth Grade
  • History of the United States
  • Geography of the United States

3
New York State Standards
  • Social Studies, Standard 3. Geography, students
    will use a variety of intellectual skills to
    demonstrate their understanding of the geography
    of the interdependent world in which we live
    local, national, and global including the
    distribution of people, places, and environments
    over the earths surface.

4
Student Outcomes
  • Explain what the Dust Bowl was, when it occurred,
    and who was affected by it
  • Describe what some people did to cope with the
    Dust Bowl
  • Explain how the geography of the land contributed
    to the Dust Bowl

5
Imagine
  • The year is 1935. You are ten years old. Your
    parents are trying to decide whether to pack up
    their belongings and leave the farm behind or to
    stick it out in Oklahoma until the end of the
    Dust Bowl. Because of the Great Depression,
    drought, and the Dust Bowl many of your neighbors
    have left for California. Read on to see what
    you would have decided

6
What caused the Dust Bowl?
  • The Dust Bowl was caused in part by the raising
    of cattle and planting of crops on the plains.
    This resulted in destruction of the natural
    grasslands and allowed the wind to erode the
    soil.
  • What do you think could have been done to prevent
    the Dust Bowl from occurring?

7
Who could have helped you in the dust bowl?
  • Many children wrote to President Roosevelt or his
    wife hoping for help.
  • Here is a letter written by a 13 year old boy
    from Kansas who was suffering through the Dust
    Bowl.

8
Life on the Farm in Oklahoma
  • Life on the farm was hard. There were chores to
    complete every day and you raised most if not all
    of your food. Many children had to leave school
    to help on their family farm.
  • Imagine what life on the farm would be like for
    you

9
If you left Oklahoma, one of your destinations
might have been Weedpatch Camp
  • Click here to see what Weedpatch Camp was like
    and what it would have offered your family

10
If you didnt go to a migrant camp in California
  • You most likely didnt receive a warm welcome.
    Many migrants were not welcomed in California and
    if they found work, they worked for very low
    wages.
  • Was California really a better option for the
    Okies?

11
You have reached the end of your journey through
the Dust Bowl
  • What do you think?
  • Would you have stayed in Oklahoma or gone to
    California?
  • What could have been done to prevent the Dust
    Bowl? Anything?
  • If you stayed in Oklahoma what did you do to get
    by?

12
Follow-Up Activity
  • Write a letter from the point of view living
    through the Dust Bowl.
  • Do you want to know what its like in California,
    are you looking for help from someone, or are you
    writing a letter to a friend?
  • Be sure to include at least five facts you have
    learned about the Dust Bowl!

13
Questions?
14
Resources
  • This website gave detailed definition of the Dust
    Bowl and why it occurred.
  • http//encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572810/Dus
    t_Bowl.html
  • This website described the migrants experience
    upon arriving in California.
  • http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevent
    s/pandeAMEX08.html
  • This website shows Weedpatch Camp and what it
    offered migrants from the plains.
  • http//www.weedpatchcamp.com/camp.htm
  • This website offers a glimpse of farm life during
    the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
  • http//www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/
    life_01.html
  • Here is a letter from a 13-year old boy who wrote
    to Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • http//newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/fm1137.htm
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