Feeding a Family of Five: Role Playing the Great Depression.

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela

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ERIC Number: EJ556256

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1997

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Feeding a Family of Five: Role Playing the Great Depression.

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, v22 n2 p59-63 Fall 1997

Describes an assignment for an undergraduate U. S. history class that combined role playing and research. The class was directed to use depression-era materials (newspapers, magazine articles, pamphlets, cookbooks) and plan a menu to feed a family of five on $2.50 a week (the amount provided by relief agencies). (MJP)

Descriptors: Active Learning, Business Cycles, Consumer Economics, Economic Impact, Higher Education, Modern History, Role Playing, Simulation, Social History, Student Projects, Undergraduate Study, United States History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers

Language: English

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