ZoomIn Inquiry American Indian Culture

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Zoom-In InquiryAmerican Indian Culture
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• Understanding Goal
• Environment or surroundings effect how people
• meet their basic needs.
• Investigative Question
• What can we learn from primary sources
• about American Indian culture?

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Directions

• We are going to examine a photograph or a primary
  source.
• Look carefully at each part of the picture and
  describe what you see.
• Try to make a hypothesis or educated guess about
  what American Indian group is shown in the
  photograph.

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Look carefully at the photograph. What do you
see?
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What new people or objects are shown now? What
might they be doing?
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Who and what else is in this picture? Where do
you think the photograph was taken?
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Which American Indians might these people
be? What evidence says so?
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On the housetop--Hopi SUMMARY  Women seated and
standing on pueblo buildings. 1906, December 19.,
Edward S. Curtis, Library of Congress, Prints and
Photographs Division.
These are pueblo Indians (Hopi) of the Southwest.
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• Understanding Goal
• Environment or surroundings effect how people
• meet their basic needs.
• How did the Pueblo Indians use their environment?
• Investigative Question
• What can we learn from primary sources (in this
  case photographs) about American Indian culture?

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What American Indians are you studying?

• Powhatan
• Lakota
• Pueblo

• Where did they live?
• What kinds of homes did they build?
• What was their occupation?
• What was their form of transportation?

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Sort-It-Out

• Look at the images inside the envelope.
• Sort the images into two or more categories.
• Label the categories.
• Reflect on your sorting.
• Repeat process as time allows.

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• Share your best Sort with another group.
• Describe what you see in each others Sort.
• Questions?
• Guess the labels for each others Sort.

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Lets Review the Photographs

• Sort-it-Out Native Americans and Their
  Cultures, Carol Regier, Ashlawn ES
• http//staging.primarysourcelearning.org/teaching_
  materials/learning_experience/sources.php?experien
  ces_key4087