Name: ____________________________________________
Date: __________
Great Depression MovieMaker Project
Requirements
 2-4 minute movie
 10-12 total images
Points Possible
Content
Your movie includes relevant and meaningful
information for each of the 5 subtopics in your chosen
area of research.
Images
Your film includes 10-12 images that help to develop
your presentation. Images are thoughtful and add to
the substance of your movie.
Organization
Information in your movie is well-organized and flows
smoothly. You include a brief introduction and
conclusion to tie your presentation together.
Citation
Information is cited properly and contains a works
cited page.
Grammar
You have proofread your script for mistakes in
punctuation, spelling, run-on sentences, etc…
Creativity
The degree to which your film is innovative, thoughtful
and reflective.
TOTAL
Notes:
25
25
10
5
5
5
75
Points Assigned
Name: ____________________________________________
Date: __________
Description:
Your assignment is to create a short film (2-4 minutes) that explains the scope and devestation of the
Great Depression by focusing on one particular topic. Begin by choosing a topic and then research it so
that you understand it. Create a film that visually explains the facts and significance of this topic. Be
factually accurate with your information, as well as creative. You should include images (photographs,
charts, cartoons, etc.) and narration, but may also add music, video, multimedia, etc.
Due Date:
Tuesday, April 3 (file should be saved to Drop Box)
Steps:

Choose topic

Research, Works Cited

Storyboard

Create film

Review and edit film for final production
Topics:

First New Deal

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Leadership in the New Deal
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Fireside chats

Franklin Roosevelt’s One Hundred Days

Second New Deal

Social Security Act: Provided workers with unemployment insurance and retirement benefits

Public Works Administration (PWA): created jobs by having people build public works such as
highways and bridges

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC): Hired young men to work on other conservation projects,
such as planting trees

National Youth Administration (NYA):

Works Progress Administration (WPA): helped writers find employment, John Steinbeck and The
Grapes of Wrath

The Dust Bowl:

Impact on Women, children, or minorities (choose one)
Name: ____________________________________________
Date: __________

Eleanor Roosevelt’s role

Unemployment, breadline (scope of problem, experiences of ordinary Americans)
Resources:
New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm
Unemployment/Breadline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/breadline/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Dustbowl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/photo-gallery/dustbowl/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Women, Children, and Minorities
Riding the Rails (teenagers)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/rails/
WPA
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Depression Art Gallery
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm
Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/index.html
Library of Congress Resource Guide on F.D.R.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/presidents/fdroosevelt/
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/fdroosevelt.html
Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/
Name: ____________________________________________
Date: __________
General Resources
America in the 1930s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html
Photo Gallery of Great Depression and World War II (only use Depression material)
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/depression-bw/file.html
The Depression News
http://www.hal.state.mi.us/mhc/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/dime/