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Find out more about the Black Blizzard!

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Black Blizzard Video - Dust Bowl - HISTORY.com

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On May 9th, 1934 a giant storm rose up out of the great plains. A menacing wall of soil and dust headed east across the land, thick enough to block out the sun.

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Watch short clips and hear stories straight from those who lived through these tough years on the Southern Plains.

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The Dust Bowl got its name after Black Sunday, April 14, 1935. More and more dust storms had been blowing up in the years leading up to that day. In 1932, 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains.

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Life during
the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma

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The Story of a Girl in the
Great Depression

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Dust Bowl Diary of
Grace Edwards

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It was so dark during these storms you couldn't even see your hand in front of your face. Many storms swept through the frontier leading the name of an era known as the Dirty Thirties.

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Imagine you are on your tractor or sitting on your front porch and you  see this black cloud  building up and coming at you. How do you feel?

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The worst of the Dust Bowl happened on the plains of central United States in the 1930's.

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Children protected themselves from the sand by wearing goggles and covering their nose, mouth, and ears with handkerchiefs, cloth, or respirators. How would you feel if you had to wear this to school?

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Over farming in addition to poor farming practices followed by years of drought is what lead us to the creation of the Dust Bowl.

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Test yourself or a friend!

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Enjoy this Easy Science for Kids Dust Bowl Quiz - you'll get your quiz score after completing this FREE online interactive quiz on Dust Bowl. You need to answer all the questions to be able to get your score. You can do this fun quiz about Dust Bowl again, till you get the perfect score and become a quiz champion!
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Dust Bowl Quiz - Fun FREE Interactive General Earth Science Quiz for Kids -

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Enjoy this Easy Science for Kids Dust Bowl Quiz - you'll get your quiz score after completing this FREE online interactive quiz on Dust Bowl. You need to answer all the questions to be able to get your score. You can do this fun quiz about Dust Bowl again, till you get the perfect score and become a quiz champion!

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Could the Dust Bowl happen again? Learn about Black Sunday, sicknesses the dust caused, and if we could experience another Dust Bowl

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When the first settlers crossed the American plains in the mid-to-late 1800s, the vast landscape must have seemed endless. So much fertile land to be ranched or farmed. Although being a farmer or rancher was hard work, it was a satisfying way of life for many people.

In the 1920s, grain prices dropped and many farmers had to farm more land just to earn as much money as they had before. Farmers throughout the Midwest stripped the prairie-lands to make more farms.

Some people warned that the land couldn't remain fertile if it was used this way. When faced with a hungry family, though, few farmers listened to these warnings. Then high temperatures and drought caused the crops to die.

The Earth became rock hard. Strong winds came and blew the hard earth away as dust. There were no trees or plants to hold it in place.

On April 14, 1935, a huge dust storm rose. It went on for hundreds of miles and moved quickly across the United States, covering anything in its path in thick, black dust. The sky was as dark as night. The dust storm dropped 12 million tons of dust on Chicago and went all the way to New York City. This day was known as Black Sunday.

Fun Facts about Dust Bowl for Kids

Dust storms called Black Rollers frequently blew across the landscape. The dust storms could be 10,000 feet high.

No one was safe from the storms. The dust invaded homes and barns. It got into people's eyes, noses and lungs. Many children and the elderly died from dust pneumonia.

Farm animals choked to death during the dust storms. Cars and even buildings were covered in dust.

After Black Sunday, many people gave up farming and moved west looking for better opportunities. This was a sad, hard time.

The U.S. government put plans in place to save the grasslands. The government planted more grass and trees and restricted farming practices.

Dust Bowl Vocabulary

1. Grain prices: the price farmers could get for selling their grain

2. Black Sunday: the date of the largest dust storm

3. Dust Bowl: the area affected by the dust storms. Includes Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico.

4. Pneumonia: infection of the lungs

All about Dust Bowl Video for Kids

Watch this awesome Dust Bowl video for kids:

A video slideshow of pictures of the Dust Bowl with music about the disaster.

Dust Bowl Q&A

Question: Could this disaster happen again?

Answer: Yes. Currently farmers in South America and Africa are rapidly cutting down or burning rain forests to make more farmland. As the land becomes deforested, many of the same problems appear.

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When the first settlers crossed the American plains in the mid-to-late 1800s, the vast landscape must have seemed endless. So much fertile land to be ranched or farmed. Although being a farmer or rancher was hard work, it was a satisfying way of life for many people.

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A mother of 7 kids migrates to California to escape the Dust Bowl  in hope of a new life. What do you feel when you see this picture? What do you think she is feeling and why?

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Shovels were used daily to move sand away from door ways. It was also used to shovel out anything they needed as the piles of sand were so high. They even used the shovel to get the dirt out of their homes.

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by Woody Guthrie
Recorded in 1940

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A Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee

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What if you had lived during the Dust Bowl? What choices would you have made?

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What if you had lived during the Dust Bowl? What choices would you have made?

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Live the Dust Bowl as a farmer and make your own decisions for your family farm.

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The Dust Bowl | Ken Burns | PBS | Watch The Dust Bowl | Ken Burns | PBS

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The Dust Bowl chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. Full film now streaming.