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Great Depression Webquest Borrow ed from Zunal ([|www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=53153]) ** Introduction ** You are living through the great depression and you have lost your job. You are looking for jobs that are available to you through the Federal Government. You will use a list of web resources to find out what kinds of jobs the Federal Government was providing, and how people lived during the Great Depression. Using the websites provided to you complete the worksheet entitled "Surviving during the Great Depression".

You are to explore what it was like for a family to live in the Great Depression. Use the resources under "process" to accomplish the following tasks:
 * Task **
 * Find out what types of jobs were available through the WPA
 * Find out how many people were unemployed what effect that had on him or her and his or her family.
 * Find out how the depression impacted the average citizens

Using this information you will write a three paragraph essay on what it was like to live during the Great Depression.



You will first answer the questions on the hand out you were given for each of the activities listed below. Then you will take the answer to your questions and turn into a short essay.
 * Process **
 * 1) Use these resources to answer the questions on the worksheet about the Great Depression: [|The Stock Market Crash] | [|The Works Progress Administration] | [|The WPA]
 * 2) Next you will research how families were effected by the Great Depression. Go to this website and read the letters sent to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt: [|Dear Mrs. Roosevelt].
 * 3) Then you will read about children and their lives during the depression: [|Digital History]
 * 4) Look through the "[|I Remember]" stories of citizens of Michigan (where Bud, Not Buddy is set). Answer the questions on your sheet about these stories.
 * 5) Next you will turn your answers on the worksheet into a short essay. It should consist of about three paragraphs.
 * In the first paragraph you should explain the economic conditions and causes of The Great Depression. You should also explain what happened to banks in this paragraph.
 * The second paragraph should consist of what the WPA provided to Americans and what kinds of jobs that people obtained through the WPA.
 * The third paragraph should focus on family life and how difficult it was for people to make a decent living during the Great Depression. You should also discuss the lives of children and citizens of Michigan in this paragraph.