Oklahoma Social Studies USH.C.4.3.D
The Standard
- USH.C.4
- Analyze the cycles of economic boom and bust of the 1920s and 1930s on the transformation of the United States of America’s government and society.
- USH.C.4.3
- Analyze the impact of the New Deal in addressing the challenges of the Great Depression by transforming the federal government’s role in domestic economic policies.
Summarize the goals and effectiveness of new federal agencies to address conditions of the Great Depression (e.g., Social Security Administration, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC], Works Progress Administration [WPA], Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC], Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]).
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · USH.C.4.3
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why the federal government created new agencies during the Great Depression. They describe what each agency did and judge its results, such as jobs created, bank deposits protected, or benefits paid.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can match each agency to the problem it addressed and name a concrete result. They can explain that some programs gave short-term work, while others created protections that lasted. They know these efforts did not end unemployment.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the FDIC created jobs or that the WPA insured bank deposits. They may think the programs ended the Depression. Some assume Social Security initially covered every worker, though farm and domestic workers were left out.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: For the FDIC and WPA, name the problem each addressed, what each did, and one success or limit of each.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs five agency cards and five problem cards; have them match each pair and add a sticky note naming one result.
Show a WPA road photo and a 1930s unemployment graph, then ask: Did the WPA end unemployment or provide temporary relief?
Play agency bingo: read clues such as 'insured bank deposits' and have students mark the agency, then explain their match.
Open a bank's FDIC coverage page and ask students how deposit insurance might change a family's decision during a bank run.
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