Virginia Schools in the Great Depression

These guides are designed for teachers to use as they plan to use these online materials in ther classrooms. The guide includes outlines for lessons, descriptions of essential understandings, correlations to the Virginia Standards of Learning, exercises for source analysis, and a worksheet outlining the SCIM-C method of reading primary documents.

Teachers' guides are available for these modules:

Module 01: The Impact of the Depression in Virginia Public Schools (pdf) (doc)

Module 02: Who Should Bear the Burden? Public Opinion and School Policy (pdf) (doc)

Module 05: Teaching Civics in an Era of Crisis (pdf) (doc)