The Great Depression

1. The Great Depression Mary Gibbons

2. Content Standards • Theme: Families Now and Long Ago, Near and Far: • Strand: History • Topic: Historical Thinking and Skills • Content Statements: • Time can be divided into categories (e.g., months of the year, past, present, and future. • Photographs, letters, artifacts, and books can be used to learn about the past. • Topic: Heritage • Content Statement: • The way basic human needs are met has changed over time. • Topic: Human Systems • Content Statement: • Families interact with the physical environment differently in different times and places. • Strand: Economics • Topic: Scarcity • Content Statement: • 11. Wants are unlimited and resources are limited. Therefore, people make choices because they cannot have everything they want. • Topic: Production and Consumption • Content Statement: • 12. People produce and consume goods and services in the community. • Topic: Markets • Content Statement: • 13. People trade to obtain goods and services they want. • Topic: Financial Literacy • Content Statement: • 14. Currency is used as a means of economic exchange. [Ms. Mary Gibbons] [Central Elementary] [1st grade] Students will actively participate by pressing the navigational links and interacting with the links in the videos with a follow along worksheet. They will fill the worksheet out during the time they complete this PowerPoint. [The Great Depression]

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4. What was the Great Depression? Budget Jobs Food Newspapers Travel Shelter The Great Depression was the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.

5. Newspapers

6. Newspapers

7. Newspapers Newspapers and E-Newspapers are sources that you can use to find out what is going on in our world.

8. Who was President? Herbert Hoover

9. What did your family eat for dinner last night? Did you make it yourself or did it come premade? Food

10. Many children made their own food, and food was very scarce. If you could eat one meal a day, which meal would it be? Food

11. Buttermilk Johnny Cake Believe it or not, food was actually pretty cheap during the Great Depression. The problem is, a lot of people didn't have the money to buy food, no matter what it cost. One staple item that was plentiful and cheap was corn meal. Since it often served as a main course, families had to find new and inventive ways of preparing corn meal. One favorite preparation was called Johnny Cake. 1 c. flour 1 c. cornmeal 2 eggs 1 c. buttermilk 1/3 c. sugar (if desired) 1/4 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking soda 1/4 c. oil Pour into 8 inch baking pan. Bake 30-45 minutes. Recipe from the Great Depression

12. Scarce: being in insufficient supply

13. Many families had to relocate to find jobs. Has your family ever had to move? Travel

14. Resources were scarce. People had to make homes out of what they found when they were traveling. Shelter

15. Shelter

16. Since jobs were scarce, many children had to find work to help their families. Children cannot get jobs like the children did in the 1930’s, but helping your parents by doing chores helps them too! Jobs

17. Jobs

18. Budget the total amount of money allocated or needed for a particular purpose or period of time

19. Application • Let’s make a budget!

20. What was the Great Depression? Question #1

21. How will you better manage your money? Question #2

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