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The following ideas and projects might be used to supplement your classroom work on understanding the Great Depression and New Deal era in United States history:

Exploring the Internet: Many sites on the Internet facilitate understanding of life in the 1930s, New Deal programs, and the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. The following list gives general sites and sites specific to a particular topic such as the history of Social Security. Explore the sites, select one, and report to the class what can be found at a particular website.

1. http://newdeal.feri.org—The New Deal Network: The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration. This site is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies and funded partly by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The New Deal Network offers students pathways to view documents and...