print email comment close Visions In the Dust: A Child's Perspective of the Dust Bowl URL: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/dust/intro.html Description: This classroom guide will help students understand "Dust Bowl history through the eyes of a child. Using Karen Hesse's Newbery Award-winning Out of the Dust as an introduction...students have the opportunity to identify with the personal experiences of youth in the 1930s. In addition, students examine primary source materials of the period to correlate the fictional text with actual visual, auditory, and manuscript accounts as found in the [Library of Congress] American Memory collections." Author: King, Jan; Nisbet, Rena Publisher: Library of Congress Library of Congress Subject Headings: Depressions -- 1929 Droughts -- Great Plains Dust storms -- Great Plains United States -- History -- Study and teaching LII Database Information: Record 10040 created by Martha Gifford on 03/09/2002 Last modification on 09/22/2009 Published: 03/09/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/10040