Idaho Social Studies 6-12.HT1.2

Social StudiesGrades 6–12Historical Thinking Skills

The Standard

Explain how events and developments in the past stem from multiple causes and have multiple effects.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify several reasons an event happened and several changes it caused. They use evidence to explain how the causes and effects connect to the event.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given a short source, students name two supported causes and two distinct effects of the Great Depression. They explain the links instead of just putting events in date order.
Common Misconceptions: Students often say the stock market crash alone caused the Great Depression. They may assume anything that happened later was an effect, without explaining the connection.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Name two causes and two effects of the Great Depression. Draw arrows connecting each one to the Depression, and label each arrow with a brief explanation.

Lesson moves

Hand out cards labeled stock crash, bank failures, falling spending, job losses, and New Deal programs; students arrange them and draw arrows with explanations.
Ask, 'Why did the Great Depression spread beyond Wall Street, and what changed for families?' Require two causes and two effects in writing.
Play a link-matching game: pair bank failures with lost savings and factory layoffs with reduced spending, then defend or revise each arrow.
Use a grocery receipt and a 1930s breadline photo; trace how lost wages could change a family's purchases and affect nearby shops.

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