Respond to the following questions using complete sentences on separate paper. Free resources to study the great depression and the dust bowl. Interactive dust bowl the dust bowl what choices would you. Remind students that the theme is a message about life or human nature that the author expresses through the characters actions and ideas. Great stories, much detail, and a good vision, you get an overview of how this happened, what people went through, how the government helped, in print i find the stories more dispassionate though, there. Ken burns the dust bowl, a fourhour documentary airing in two parts sunday and monday, is not one of his better films by any means, but it makes its. The fourpart miniseries recounts the impact of the dust bowl on the united states during the great depression of the 1930s the series features the voices of patricia clarkson, peter coyote, and carolyn mccormick. Menacing black blizzards killed farmers crops and livestock, threatened the lives of their children, and forced thousands of. It examines the political, economic, social, cultural, scientific, and technological advances of the twentieth century and introduces students to the individuals who made history in each decade. An illustrated history in this riveting chronicle, which accompanies a documentary to be broadcast on pbs in the fall, dayton duncan and ken burns capture the profound drama of the american dust bowl of the 1930s. Check your understanding of the dust bowl, the name used to describe the great plains during a multiyear drought that hit in the 1930s, with an. An early adolescent boy who lives with his parents on their farm during the dust bowl tells his story in this picture book. In truth, my only recollection of a new thing i learned in us history was that on the page.
In lakin, kansas, three children prepare to leave for school wearing goggles and homemade dust masks to protect them from the dust in 1935. Create your postcard buy the book and dvd the dust. Examples of primary sources include journals, photographs, and newspaper articles from the time period. The dust bowl, a documentary from ken burns, chronicles a critical moment in american history in all its complexities and profound human drama. Ken burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Dust bowl disaster describes the economic and personal hardships endured by farmers in the great plains of the united states and canada during the 1930s. The dust bowl ken burns in the classroom pbs learningmedia.
It is both an oral history, using interviews of 30 survivors, and an historical accounting of what happened and why during the 1930s on the southern plains, using first person accounts, narration, comments by historians, and restored photographs, footage and music from the period. Ken burns dust bowl explores story of ecological disaster. The documentary was directed by ken burns and narrated by. History we watched a very interesting documentary on the dust bowl. Lessons from the dust bowl with ken burns 2012 imdb. An introduction to the dust bowl intended to activate schema for our upcoming novel out of the dust.
The dust bowl free printable mini unit study in economics, geography and u. Guide your students through ken burns pbs the dust bowl documentary disc 1 1. It chronicles the worst manmade ecological disaster in american history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the great plowup, followed by a decadelong drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Egan, a pulitzer prizewinning journalist, captures the gritty voice of the times as he follows six families as they went from. A documentary about the 1930s drought of north american prairie farm. The film uses compelling interviews with 26 survivors, and also draws on seldom seen movie footage, previously unpublished photographs, songs, and written accounts to tell an. A film by ken burns the dust bowl chronicles the worst manmade ecological disaster in american history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the great plowup, followed by a decadelong drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Ceaseless black blizzards, turned night into day, killed crops and livestock, threatened the lives of small children, and buried homesteaders hopes under huge dunes of dirt. Teachers help your students understand more about manmade and natural disasters with the following lesson plans. Resources for faculty members who would like to incorporate the themes of the dust bowl exhibition and programs into their curriculum. The dust bowl encompasses a broad spectrum of the humanities. It is part oral history, using compelling interviews of 26 survivors of those hard timeswhat will probably be the last recorded testimony of the generation that lived through.
Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these films present the opportunity to pose thoughtprovoking questions for students, and introduce new ideas, perspectives, and primary sources. Although we think of the dust bowl probably most often in terms of steinbecks the grapes of wrath 1939 and the film 1940 it inspired, most of the people living in the dust bowl stayed in the dust bowl. Explore this site for helpful lesson plans, videos, photos, and history. Lessons from the dust bowl w ken burns live youtube. The dust bowl is a 2012 twopart documentary series that chronicles the environmentally disastrous dust bowl that took place in the 1930s, and affected the great plain region. This comprehensive book presents highlights of each decade from the 1900s to the 1990s. Ken burns, the producer and director of the dust bowl film, has been making. The dust bowl, a fourhour, twoepisode documentary from acclaimed filmmaker ken burns, is also a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains usa lesson we ignore at our peril. Lesson activities build students academic and critical thinking skills and provide opportunities culminating in projects such as. The dust bowl, out of the dust, webquest, web hunt, the great depression authors. In the event you need to rewatch the video or are absent, the video may be viewed online at. Ken burns and producer dayton duncan chronicle the dust bowl in all its complexities and profound human drama. Guide students to do a deep reading of the text, making inferences and analyzing the theme. Ken burns dust bowl explores story of ecological disaster huge dust clouds, like this one captured in 1935 in boise city, okla.
Moe howard of the three stooges on the mike douglas show duration. The dust bowl is a 2012 american television documentary miniseries directed by ken burns which aired on pbs on november 18 and 19, 2012. Ken burns s the dust bowl 2012 and timothy egans the worst hard time tell the stories of the americans who survived the dust storms that terrorized the great plains during the darkest years of the depression. For almost a decade, a devastating combination of drought, wind, and poor farming practices turned millions of acres of the great plains into a wasteland. How teachers can make the most of the dust bowl neh.
In the second episode of ken burnss dust bowl, experience the gradual relief as the families of the plains seek new lives in california and government conservation efforts and a break in. Ken burns gets to the heart of the matter once again with the dust bowl. An illustrated history burns, ken, duncan, dayton on. Learning about the great depression and dust bowl through. Learning about the great depression and dust bowl through primary sources cortney stone curator of education the best way to understand history is to examine primary sources the materials created by those who experienced historical events. The dust bowl chronicles the worst manmade ecological disaster in american history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the great plowup, followed by a decadelong drought during the 1930s. The dust bowl, a twopart, fourhour documentary from ken burns, chronicles this critical moment in american history in all its complexities and profound human drama. Burns conducted interviews with 26 survivors from the period and uses seldom seen movie footage alongside previously unpublished photographs. Truthfully, this is the first book ive read by ken burns, ive mainly seen his videos, including the dust bowl, ww ii, and the civil war. Create personalized postcards using images from the dust bowl and email them to friends or family. If you are teaching about the dust bowl, this page lists great childrens books to. Out of the dust delivers a powerful message about forgiveness, hope, and healing through its sparse, poetic text. This pbs site allows the user to experience what life was like on the southern great plains during the dust bowl.
Terrifying photographs of milehigh dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by. Through the novel, steinbeck wanted readers to experience the life of the dust bowl. This guide was developed to promote resources about the dust bowl and to support the dust, drought, and dreams gone dry exhibition which came to the tcc southeast campus in fall 2015. Dust bowl ballads, by woody guthrie pretty boy floyd, modern novel, 7th grade. To find those questions and video clips to help you answer them, visit the official site for the documentary here. But the dust bowls true heart lay in western kansas, eastern colorado, eastern new mexico, and the oklahomatexas panhandle country. Join in buy the book and dvd the dust bowl dvd, bluray and book the dust bowl is now. That book stayed with me in a way that never would have with a paragraph in a us history book, at some distant point in my past.
Ken burnss the dust bowl examines the worst manmade ecological disaster in american history documenting its causes, impact, and lessons as well as personal stories of survival and human endurance. The 1930s photos and movie footage burns and his team have unearthed are stunning. People living in this region went from prosperity to poverty as a relentless drought caused their farms to dry up and dust storms to rage. Ken burns dust bowl stories of our past, and future.
Ken burns dust bowl stories of our past, and future i caught ken burns documentary dust bowl last night on pbs. The dust bowl, a film by ken burns california museum. Once the crops died, there was nothing to hold the soil in place. We also answered questions over the video, which were required for a grade.
The curriculum for the dust bowl explores these subjects through a wide range of classroom activities exploring history, public policy, economics and ecology. A long list of lesson plans prepared by various neh steinbeck scholars. Find ken burns lesson plans and teaching resources. The dust bowl educators edition dvd,the dust bowl examines the worst manmade ecological disaster in american history documenting its causes and impact as well as the personal stories of survival and human endurance. Last week and this, we have concentrated on the great depression and the great american dust bowl. In this riveting chronicle which accompanies the documentary broadcasted on pbs dayton duncan and ken burns capture the profound drama of the american dust bowl of the 1930s. The dust bowl, a new film by ken burns chronicles the worst manmade ecological disaster in american history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of. In the dust bowl, documentarian ken burns, who has taken on such past subjects as prohibition, baseball, and the civil war, turns his attention to a dark chapter in american history, when poor farming practices and a prolonged drought turned americas heartland into a desert, with powerful dust storms killing everything in sight and driving many to flee to the west coast. This fourhour documentary film series chronicles the decadelong, manmade ecological disaster known as the dust bowl, which affected 100 million acres of land in texas, oklahoma, and adjacent states in the 1930s.
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