Teaching a unit on the Great Depression? Need an attention-getting, engaging introduction for your Great Depression unit? Teach about the Great Depression and review the Social Studies skill of Image Analysis with this interactive resource.

This is a Great Depression activity in which students view a variety of images from the Great Depression era and analyze the time period through answering a set of spiral questions for each.

This activity introduces students to the Great Depression while also drawing their attention and empathy for the people of the period. The final slide asks students to summarize the time period based solely on the images and their analysis.

Includes:

Presentation with Images for Analysis

Spiral-Format Questions

Student Writing Prompt

Skills Practiced:

Primary Source Analysis

Image Analysis

Historical Thinking

Historical Inquiry

Cause & Effect

Comparison

**This is NOT a complete lecture on the Great Depression. If you prefer a lecture note format, please look for the full version powerpoint in my TpT Store.

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