This INGENIOUS activity is similar to 4 Pics and a Word or What's the Word. It is a rigorous vocabulary activity that uses pictures to help students learn vocabulary words. Currently this one is for the Great Depression but more units are coming very soon!
I usually play this activity in pairs and start all students at level 1. They have to keep guessing until they get the word correct then they can move on to level 2. They can be laminated so that students don't write on them and they last from year to year.
Correlates to State Standards
Florida
SS.912.A.5.11-
Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Great Depression and the New
Deal.
· Standard: Analyze the effects of the changing social, political, and
economic conditions of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
California
11.6
Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression and how
the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government.
1. Describe
the monetary issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that
gave rise to the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the weaknesses in key
sectors of the economy in the late 1920s.
2. Understand
the explanations of the principal causes of the Great Depression and the steps
taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover and
Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat the economic crisis.
3. Discuss
the human toll of the Depression, natural disasters, and unwise agricultural
practices and their effects on the depopulation of rural regions and on
political movements of the left and right, with particular attention to the
Dust Bowl refugees and their social and economic impacts in California.
4. Analyze
the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies
and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy
since the 1930s (e.g., Works Progress Administration, Social Security, National
Labor Relations Board, farm programs, regional development policies, and energy
development projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, California Central
Valley Project, and Bonneville Dam).
Tennessee
8.4 Identify
the changes in social and cultural life caused by the Great Depression and the
Dust Bowl (i.e., Hoovervilles, Bonus Army, migrations, worldwide economic
depression, Democrat victory in 1932, widespread poverty, unemployment,
religious revivalism).
Virginia
VUS.10 The student will demonstrate knowledge of key
domestic events of the 1920s and 1930s by
b) assessing the causes and consequences of the
stock market crash of 1929;
c) explaining the causes of the Great
Depression and its impact on the American people;
d) describing how Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New
Deal relief, recovery, and reform measures addressed the Great Depression and
expanded the government’s role in the economy.
Common Core
Standards (History)
Grade 6-8
Reading
Standard 4. Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific
words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context
relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.
Grade
9-10
Reading
Standard 4. Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific
words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context
relevant to grades 9–10 texts and topics.
Grade
11-12
Reading
Standard 4. Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other
domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or
technical context relevant to grades 11–12 texts and topics.
