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Related Lesson Plans

	Lesson Plan Title	Length	Class	Themes	Grades
	Iowa and the Great Depression	50 minutes	U.S. History	Cities Rural Life Towns Weather Communal Groups Disaster and Crisis	9th Grade, 10th Grade

Related Books and Articles

Title	Author	Updated date
Kitturah Belknap	Bremer, Jeff	February 15, 2020
John and Sarah Kenyon: Iowa frontier Life	Bremer, Jeff	February 15, 2020
Amana Colonies	Bremer, Jeff	February 15, 2020
A System Like No Other: Orphan Trains	Wilson, Dennis S.	April 11, 2020
Dexter Community Building/AKA Roundhouse	Kidney, Joy Neal	April 11, 2020
Dexter Public Library	Kidney, Joy Neal	April 11, 2020
Old Order Amish	Bremer, Jeff	April 14, 2020
From Prosperity to Depression Part I: 1898-1914	Morain, Tom	February 15, 2020
From Prosperity to the Depression Part 3: 1919-1939 The 1920s	Morain, Tom	January 27, 2020
Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev Visits Iowa Farm	Morain, Tom	February 15, 2020
“American Gothic,” Iowa’s most famous work of art	Morain, Tom	February 15, 2020