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Essential Question: What practices should we put in place to deal with economic hard times?
Challenge students to understand economic downturns and learn from history the practices that have been put in place to help families, communities and countries survive financially hard times. As students experience financial hardships themselves, learning from a past economic crisis, such as the Great Depression, provides a perspective. By using collaborative 21st Century learning tools, students can understand the past and also analyze and "record for history" their own challenging hard times. As they synthesize solutions, they can apply what they learn and build their own "economic survival kit" for themselves and their communities.
Integrating challenge based learning into the course content of a World or United States History class engages students in learning and helps them connect the content to their lives.
A Student Challenge:
Put in place practices to help yourself, your family and your community survive a economic downturn.
- What do we know about past economic hard times that can be applied to current downturns?
- How do economic downturns effect people in our families and communities?
- What practices are in place on the national and local level to try and ease the impact of economic downturns?
- What solutions can we put in place to help our families or communities deal with economic downturns?
First published on May 19, 2009.
