Resources for the Classroom

Teachers help your students understand more about man-made and natural disasters with the following lesson plans.

Lesson Plans

Elementary (Grades 1-8)
Life in the Dust Bowl
The Whirlwind of the Dust Bowl

Secondary   (High School)
A Moment in Time: The Dirty Thirties
Counteracting the Devastation of the Dust Bowl – Is that Constitutional?

College
Days of Dust College Lesson Plan
Personal Narrative Lesson
Researched Proposal Dust Bowl Project

Additional Resources

Ken Burns The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl Preview
Read and Share Dust Bowl Stories
PBS American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl

Panhandle Resources

Dust Bowl Echoes Blog
Amarillo Globe Dust Bowl Articles
Dust Bowl recollections from Perryton, TX
Dust Bowl resources from West Texas A&M University, Cornette Library, Canyon, TX Woody Guthrie Center and Tour, Pampa, TX

Texas Resources

The Dust Bowl & Texas (Handbook of Texas)
Dust Bowl Lesson Plans (Texas Archive of the Moving Image)