Historical Background Resources
for Out of the Dust

Local Print and Nonprint Resources

 Skills

• School Library holdings
  • Use the Automated Library Catalog
  • Print Encyclopedias
  • Print Atlases
• Public Library holdings
  • BCPL Online Catalog
• CD-ROM Encyclopedias

• Unpacking the "Big" Question (Extracting Key Words
• Using OPAC .how to use the search and advanced search feature of the automated catalog
• Using the BCPL Online Catalog
• Using Print and CD-ROM Encyclopedias... Advantages of different encyclopedia formats

  Skills

• Dust Bowl Overviews
  The Dust Bowl
  Dust Bowl (History Channel)
  The Dust Bowl
  Dust Bowl
  The Dust Bowl
  
• Dust Bowl Websites
  Surviving the Dust Bowl
  (PBS: American Experience: see Table of Contents)
  Drought in the Dust Bowl Years
  The Dust Bowl (oral histories and documentary photographs from Oklahoma)
  The Dust Bowl (A Webquest: see LINKS section)
  Dust Bowl Diary
  The Migrant Experience (American Memory/Library of Congress)
  Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs (Library of Congress)
  An American Exodus: Displacement in the 1930's (about migrants)
  Songs of the 1920's and 1930's (songs about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression)
  Dust Bowl Photos from Oklahoma page 1 page 2 (American Memory/Library of Congress)
  
• The Great Depression
  The Great Depression (Library of Congress Learning Page)
  A Study of the Great Depression (many topics)
  Riding the Rails (includes a timeline of the Great Depression)
  The 1930's: A Time of Depression
  The Great Depression, a Decade of Hardship
  The Great Depression (a summary, part of a Thinkquest)
  The Great Depression, a Great Disaster (a Thinkquest)
  
• Other Websites related to Out of the Dust
  Author Website-Karen Hesse

• Fee-based databases (Maryland Digital Library and BCPS subscriptions): articles, newspapers, magazines, maps, excerpts from books, TV and radio transcripts, etc.

• Online Encyclopedias

• Using the Internet
• Search Strategies (Boolean, Natural Language, etc)
• Choosing the Best Search Tools for Your Task ...Learn when to use which search engine.Evaluating Web sites for Authenticity
• Using Online Encyclopedias ...See help section on each encyclopedia website