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The Great Depression-Homeschool Unit Study

August 11, 2015 by Kristie 6 Comments

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The Great Depression Homeschool Unit StudyWe recently began a study on the Great Depression.  It was inspired by the movie Kit Kittredge:  An American Girl.  This movie is interesting to both my high schooler and my 9 year old-AND I found myself watching parts of it even though I had seen it many times!  🙂

(As a side note, I would say that one of the characters is a little flirtatious acting.  I always like to warn parents and let them decide if a movie is okay for their family.)

As we were watching the movie my daughter asked me, “What caused the Great Depression?”  I found this website and began reading.  As I read I was shocked to discover that banks were helping people buy stock by letting them borrow up to 75% of the purchase price.  In other words a $100 stock could be bought with $25-it didn’t matter that the person didn’t have the other $75-they could borrow it!  And the banks were charging up to 20% interest on the loans!  

Borrowers didn’t worry about the risk of losing all their money plus the bank’s money because they were certain they wouldn’t lose money in the stock market.  As you can imagine, this became a disaster.  When the market crashed, suicide and despair swept through the American investing classes.  The pressure of having to pay back what they owed and probably having most of their possessions taken from them took a big toll.  

As I shared this information on The Great Depression with my children, my older daughter decided that she never wanted to invest!  We talked about investing and that it isn’t inherently bad, but borrowing money to invest can be a very bad idea!!

On the more positive side, many people used their ingenuity and hard work to make the best of their circumstances.

Great Depression Unit Study Resources:  

Below are the resources we used for our study on The Great Depression (and some resources that we will be using for further study).

Here is the Kit Kittredge movie (along with 3 other American Girl Movies)

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http://www.ushistory.org/us/48.asp-this is the history website that explains what the Great Depression was and details the causes of the Great Depression.

Here is a fascinating look at Cooking in the great depression on Youtube:

http://www.kitkittredge.com/-I think my younger daughter will really enjoy this official movie site for the Kit Kittredge movie.

7 Money Saving Cooking Tips from the Great Depression-My high schooler will enjoy reading this.

My high schooler will also be reading the book “The Stewardship of God’s Riches”.  It is a compilation of documents, speeches and essays from economic writers.  The writers have varied backgrounds-there are writings from Nobel Prize recipients, economists, business leaders and more.  There is some information on The Great Depression in this book, and I trust Ray Notgrass to give a true perspective on the subject.

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We enjoy our unit studies!  How about you-do you use unit studies in your homeschool?

You may also be interested in:

Early American History: A Charlotte Mason Inspired Unit Study

Homeschool Unit Study, The Great Depression

 

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  1. Leah Courtney says

    August 12, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    This is great! We’ll be covering the Great Depression this year in American history. I’ll pin this for later.

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    • Kristie says

      August 12, 2015 at 2:24 pm

      Thank you Leah! We had a lot of fun!

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  2. Brenda Storz says

    December 19, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    I teach high school economics to our home ed group. The kids were absolutely riveted by interventionism of Hoover (your source on this is in line with school textbooks, but gets Hoover and the causes of the Great Depression wrong) COMBINED with the interventionist folly of FDR. I recommend Whatever Happened to Penny Candy for middle schoolers and Commanding Heights: the Battle for Ideas episode 1 on YouTube. Great Myths of the Great Depression is published by FEE and is also excellent. You will never look at Hoover and FDR the same.

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    • Kristie says

      December 23, 2016 at 1:45 pm

      Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I will check out some of the resources. I have always been interested in the book, “Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?”. Your comment made me even more interested in the book. I have heard some interesting things about FDR, but know I need to learn more. Thank you for taking the time to comment!

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