As part of our new literature book, Out of the Dust, we will be learning a bit about the Dust Bowl era that impacted a great number of people in the 1930’s.  Below is a list of resources that may help in your research to learn about the Dust Bowl.

• Pictures from the Dust Bowl on the Wind Erosion Research Unit website.
• Surviving the Dust Bowl from PBS.
• Timeline and map of Dust Bowl from University of Illinois.
• From Wessel’s Living History Farm in Nebraska, here are some personal accounts.
• A Child’s Life During the Dust Bowl from Think Quest.
• Encyclopedia dot com’s Dust Bowl entry.
• Dust Bowl information on wikipedia.
• Map of areas hardest hit by drought in 1930’s.
• “What Caused the Dust Bowl?” article from How Stuff Works.
• Google search of “Dust Bowl Maps“.

As extensions to Dust Bowl, explore migration, migrant farm workers, causes, drought, dust storms, great depression, and The Grapes of Wrath.