This one-evening professional development program introduces middle and high school educators to lessons for teaching about the Great Depression. The lessons demonstrated in this program provide educators with grade-level appropriate activities for teaching about the history and economics of one of the most significant periods in modern U.S. history. The lessons will help teachers and students answer the following questions:
- How can we measure the effects of the Great Depression?
- How can we analyze the possible causes of the Great Depression?
- How did the New Deal programs affect the U.S. economy?
- Could something like the Great Depression happen again?
Taught by Federal Reserve economic educators, this program emphasizes active- and collaborative-learning teaching methods and the use of primary source materials to help middle and high school teachers meet state and national standards in history, economics, social studies, family and consumer sciences, and business education. Participants who complete the session will receive 2.50 hours of professional development credit (Act 48 in Pennsylvania for certified teachers) and access to the St. Louis Fed's The Great Depression curriculum.
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