Stock Market Crash
As a hook to a lesson on the Stock Market Crash of 1929, 5th grade students will analyze five items: two political cartoons, one photograph, one sound excerpt, and one newspaper. Students will use the Primary Source Analysis tool to record observations, reflections and questions of these five items.
Political Cartoon https://www.loc.gov/item/2011649515/
Political Cartoon 2 https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.146360.html
Photograph https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c23429/
Newpaper Headline http://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/wall-street-lays-an-egg-famous-everett.jpg
Audio of Crash (starting at :45) https://archive.org/details/SoundsOfTheCrash