My America - September 6, 2006

Today's QuestGarden featured webquest explores America through photography. TITLE: My America: A Pictorial Essay Project AUTHOR: Olivia Gatti LINK: Link to *My America* Webquest This webquest integrates photography, internet research and historical study into a fascinating student project: You and your team will take to the streets, the school, and homes to photograph and report on cultural phenomena, from the mundane to the extreme [...] Your team will provide a lasting historical legacy, available to all Americans and the world. Before "hitting the streets", students are asked to do some research into similar work done during the New Deal Era: As the Division's first set of priorities, using prior knowledge from recent history lessons on the Great Depression and the New Deal, get together as a group, brainstorm, and take notes about the Farm Security Administration, or FSA. As a group follow these steps to answer the following questions and explore a very useful database. What an exciting way to teach history! Students will learn about New Deal and American history through a series of great online sources, then replicate the photographic activities of the FSA in their own community. You can also check out more websites on The New Deal and Photography here!