Apr. 28, 2010: The Dust Bowl

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Activities:

1. Make a "Growing Things" poster with newspaper words and pictures for things to plant, equipment used to plant, and things that help plants grow.

2. Find five different things in the newspaper that you could use to clean your house after a dust storm.

3. Find three individuals in the newspaper who could help people in a dust storm. Explain your choices.

4. How are these things important in learning about the Dust Bowl: (a) drought, (b) overfarming, (c) dust pneumonia, and (d) the Soil Conservation Service?

5. Pretend you are living in the Great Plains during the 1930s. Write a short story about your life.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standard:

• Students understand that history relates to events and people of other times and places. (History)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)