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Digital Unit Plan Template 1
Digital Unit Plan Template 1
11.6 Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role
of the federal government.
1. Describe the monetary issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that gave rise to the establishment of the
Federal Reserve and the weaknesses in key sectors of the economy in the late 1920s.
2. Understand the explanations of the principal causes of the Great Depression and the steps taken by the Federal Reserve,
Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat the economic crisis.
3. Discuss the human toll of the Depression, natural disasters, and unwise agricultural practices and their effects on the
depopulation of rural regions and on political movements of the left and right, with particular attention to the Dust Bowl refugees
and their social and economic impacts in California.
4. Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies and the expanded role of the federal
government in society and the economy since the 1930s (e.g., Works Progress Administration, Social Security, National Labor
Relations Board, farm programs, regional development policies, and energy development projects such as the Tennessee Valley
Authority, California Central Valley Project, and Bonneville Dam).
This unit covers several sections my addressing The Great Depression and The New Deal. The overall goal is for students to
understand the multiple causes of The Great Depression and reflect on whether another depression of its caliber is possible
currently. The unit starts by talking about the causes and then the policies that Herbert Hoover used to cope with the depression.
After Hoover, the unit will focus on what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did to combat the depression. Students will be performing
assessments that ask for them to look at multiple primary source documents, take written lecture notes with a reading guide, and
even create their own fireside chat about a current event!
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:
•Entry-level: Students will start the unit Supply-Side Economics Simulation: ESP Test:
by playing a document scramble game in Students will re-enact the motions of a Students will be creating a tri-fold that
heterogeneous groups based on language supply-side economy by play in groups describes and analyzes key events and
proficiency. of six with one person as a business items from the unit. The topics are
owner and the rest a employees. Tax based on political, social, and economic
rates are cut every turn to simulate the issues from the section.
style of economics and the business
owners win by making the most Document Based Writing Sample:
money. Students will write three separate
paragraphs answering a question of
Farming during the depression their choice from a pool of five
simulation: questions.
Students will reenact being a farmer
during The Great Depression. Students
are given a $2,000 loan from the
teacher and need to buy seeds to crops
to grow along with livestock.
Kahoot! Review:
Students will be taking a 20 question
review on their phones through the
app Kahoot! Students will be assessed
on their final score out of 20 to prepare
them for the unit test.
Useful Websites:
Declaration of War on Poverty
Political Cartoons Collection
Great Depression Timeline
Crash Course
Modern Comparison to the Great Depression