Taking Stock in the Past for the Future:
 In this lesson, students use New York Times articles (provided on-line) covering the stock market collapse in 1929 to analyze the reported causes of this stock market collapse, reactions on many levels to the collapse, and speculated short-term and long-term effects of the collapse.

Where Did All The Money Go? The Great Depression Mystery:
In this lesson, students will read a brief passage that poses the mystery, "How did the Great Depression happen?" As detectives, they will gather clues using the Internet to investigate the mystery through a series of clue sheets.

Play the Market:
 In this lesson, students will better understand the volatile nature of the stock market by participating in a hypothetical experiment.

The Stock Market Crash of 1929:
This PDF formatted lesson gives a chronology of the events leading to our nations most devastating financial crisis.  Afterward, students answer questions about the stock market crash.

The Great Depression and FDR:
In this lesson, students recognize some of the causes and effects of the Great Depression, and thereby understand the motive behind Roosevelt's New Deal program for the United States.

Examining the Causes and Effects of the 1929 Stock Market Crash:
In this lesson, students use New York Times articles covering the stock market collapse in 1929 to analyze the reported causes of this stock market collapse, reactions on many levels to the collapse, and speculated short-term and long-term effects of the collapse.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?: The Great Depression 1929-1941:
This unit is broken into nine (9) mini-lessons. In the unit, students will investigate the events which precipitated the Great Depression, research the lives of individuals who experienced the depression, gain an appreciation for the hardships endured by a majority of Americans.  In addition, students will examine the initiatives and programs which made up Roosevelt's New Deal and the lasting legacy of these programs.

Seeds of the 1929 Crash:
This site covers the economic atmosphere of the 1920s and the Depression era.

Stock Market Games Bring Math to Life:
 An Education World article.

Jazz Age Culture.
 This link will take you to the "Jazz Age Culture" site which offers many well-organized links on the following topics: Langston Hughes and other Harlem Renaissance writers, artists, musicians, and notables; F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and other modernist writers; Picasso, Dali, de Lempicka, Kandinsky, and other artists; resources on Prohibition, flappers, racial violence, sports, automobiles, aviators, art deco, movie stars, the Crash of '29, the scandals/trials of the decade, the new technologies; World War I Poetry.

American Memory
 A gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
 

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