CCC Lessons

** Teacher Please Note: Students will need to have read the introduction to The Depression online, as well as the Civilian Conservation Corps page. These text boxes can be printed off, photocopied and distributed to the class.

[Learning Objectives (After completing this class, students will be able to)]

• Define the CCC, and identify key aspects and achievements of the corps.
• Interpret the historic and personal significance of historic artifacts.

Provided By Teacher

• Computer/Computer Lab

[Time Required]

1-50 minute lesson period, + homework time before and after the class

[This Curriculum supports the following Minnesota Educational Standards]

MN Standards Alignment, grades 4-8
I. U.S. History, Sub-Strand I., A World at War, 1930s-1945

• The student will understand and analyze the economic, social, and political transition of the United States before, during and after World War II.

II. Minnesota History, F. World Wars I and II, and the Interwar period, 1914-1945

• The student will know and understand the impact on Minnesota of World War I and World War II, as well as, the social and economic changes of the 1920s and the 1930s.

IV. Historical Skills, Sub-Strand A., Concepts of Time

• The student will acquire skills of chronological thinking.

IV. Historical Skills, Sub-Strand B., Historical Resources

• The student will begin to use historical resources.