Great Depression Assessment Task for US History

1. ASSESSMENT
ACTIVITY
A Recipe for Disaster

2. Public Domain - Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons
How Much Do You Know About
What Caused the Great Depression?

3. A Recipe for Disaster
A recipe has two central
components:
1. Ingredients
2. Procedure

4. Ingredients
A recipe has a coherent set of ingredients that, together, make up a
particular dish
These ingredients are always listed with specific amounts
e.g. - a recipe for bread has a particular amount of yeast, sugar,
water, and flour
The amounts are in proportion to each other
e.g. - when making bread, for example, a relatively sma# amount of
yeast is combined with a relatively large amount of flour
Spices are often included in amounts that are sufficient to provide
specific tastes without overpowering other ingredients
Your recipe must include ALL of the ingredients that help you craft a
recipe that demonstrates your understanding of the assigned content

5. Procedure
Recipes include a very carefully outlined procedure
Your recipe must include a logical series of steps that take the
ingredients and "manipulate" them to create the final product
(The Great Depression)
There are a number of terms that are useful because they
indicate different ways of working with ingredients
e.g. - Some verbs indicate a gentle combination (fold, si%,
incorporate) while other procedures are more a'ressive
(knead, whisk, crush.)
Some things MUST happen before others
e.g. an oven must be pre-heated before baking or
ingredients must be combined before they are baked!

6. Rubric

7. This is an INDIVIDUAL project
Recipe is due on Tuesday April 12.
Unit Test will be on Wednesday April 13

8. Lesson plan & rubric adapted with permission from
John Zola.
www.johnzola.com