Online activities for studying the USA: Crash and Depression

Task:
You have been asked to prepare an exhibition of photos which compares the life of Americans during the boom times of the 1920s with the depressed years of the 1930s.
Choose 4 pictures from each decade which you think provide the greatest contrast.
On each slide explain what it shows and why you chose it.
For the 1930s find an image which includes the following - a 'Hooverville' and a 'dust bowl' farm from the time.

Causes:
http://bit.ly/hnxA6d

http://bit.ly/eH17CJ

Effects / The Depression
http://bit.ly/gELECZ

http://bit.ly/dPAjC6

Problem Solving Puzzle

If I was to give you a candle, a box of drawing pins, and a book of matches, and ask you to attach the candle to the wall so that it does not drip onto the table below, how would you do it?

Make your own boardgame

Try this link to make your boardgame electronically using Microsoft Office.
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/home/memories-and-crafts/articles/all-a-board-create-a-personalized-board-game.aspx

Some cut-out pieces...
http://www.juniorgeneral.org/siege/defendersc.jpg
http://www.juniorgeneral.org/donated/hazelton/guards.gif
A castle...
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/fpm_turet_wall.zip

Picasso's Guernica in 3d

This is a stunning animation of Picasso's painting 'Guernica', which he painted as a response to the German bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Thunks ii

Some more hand grenades inside your heads!

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