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Describe the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society.
Examine and evaluate how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed federalism, and initiate the welfare state.
Explain the origins and course of World War II, including the character of the war at home as well as abroad.

OFCN’s Academy Curriculum Exchange
Lesson Plan
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst195.html
The purpose of this site is to give teachers a lesson plan to effectively teach the information on World War II
The site contains a ready made lesson plan that teachers are free to use to teach World War II to their students. This lesson plan will teach students about the causes, events, and people of World War II.
This site is an excellent lesson plan to use. It contains all the components that a lesson plan needs to have. It also has all the components that the lesson plan needs to correspond with the state curriculum.

OFCN’s Academy Curriculum Exchange
Lesson Plan
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst142.html
The purpose of this site is to give teachers a lesson plan on teaching students about the countries that were in World War II.
The lesson plan will have students make a map of the countries in World War II and in doing so learn about the geography of the land as well as the alliance that each country was in. The student will better understand all that was involved in this World war.
I would say that this site is a very good site to use. It contains both the information that the student will learn as well as a list of the materials that the student will need to find the information that they will need.

Wed Quest - The Great Depression
Internet Project
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq1/webquest.htm
The purpose of this site is to give teachers an idea for a project that students can do in groups to learn about the Great Depression.
The webquest is a four person group project that will make students learn about different aspects of life in the time of the Great Depression. Each team member will be assigned a profession in which they will have t learn all about. They will discuss in the group the aspects of their profession and talk about the things that they might have had to face.
This project looks exceptional. It is a great way to teach the students about the depression and about its effects on the everyday person.

Hewitt's New Deal WebQuest
Internet Project
http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/academic/NewDealquest.htm
The purpose of this site is to learn more about the New Deal.
The students will be in groups of four. Each person will be a role. The roles are a historian, political scientist, geographer, and economist. The students will look at the New Deal through the eyes of the person that they are and analyze it.
This is a great site to teach about the New Deal. With this project students will be exposed to the New Deal by looking at it from the eyes of someone who lived it.

Biography
Reference Tool
http://www.biography.com/
The purpose of this site is to serve as a search for biographies on many different people.
The site makes it possible to look up a person and learn about them. The students could use this site to look up an individual such as Hitler and then find out about his life. It is a great way to learn about the people that were involved in the time of World War II and the Great Depression.
The site is a very well organized site. It makes searching very easy. With it one can find information about a person with little effort.

History & Humanities @ Britannica.com
Reference Tool
http://www.britannica.com/history&humanities
The purpose of this page is to serve as a search of an online set of encyclopedias. With it you can look up anything about the war or the depression.
The site has a search that you type in your subject and it will find information on it. It also has other special features that are specific in sublet matter. With this site teachers and students alike can look for information on events in World War II as well as people. They can also look for information on the Great Depression. It can be helpful in finding information for teachers to use in class as well as for students to use on projects.
This site is very good. Due to the professionalism of the company there are few things that are left to desire. It is professionally made and has professional information.

We Made Do - Recalling the Great Depression
Content Resource
http://ipad.mcsc.k12.in.us/mhs/social/madedo/
The purpose of this site is to educate about the people that had to live through the Great Depression.
The site contains pictures, oral history, and even a place to add your own story of the time. With this students and teachers can get a look at the depression from the eyes of the ones that actually lived it. It can give teachers and students insight that can not always be gained from a history book.
The site is very well organized. It is a great source of information that will educate about the time of the depression.

Rutgers Oral History Archives of WWII
Content Resource
http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm
The purpose of this site is to give an oral history of the events in the war from the people that lived through them.
This site has a list of persons interviewed about the war. With it students and teachers can learn more about the war from the mouths of the people that lived through it.

Jiskha Homework Help
Homework help
http://jiskha.com/features/forum/
The purpose of this site is to help students with their homework.
This site has a forum on it that you post questions on and then other people in the forum can help the student find an answer.
This site is an excellent way to help a student with their homework. They can receive help while at home

Ask Earl
Homework help
http://www.yahooligans.com/content/ask_earl/
The purpose of this site is to help students get an answer to anything that they might have a question on.
The site has a section that you post your question. Then a fictitious character named Earl will answer your question. With this site you can find questions for project or for just some fun facts.
This site is very good. It is very well organized. It is a part of Yahoo which is a big corporation, and so the page is very professional.

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