Zoom-In Inquiry Using Primary Sources to help focus instruction
How can primary sources help us investigate how early Pueblo cultures met their basic needs?
Describe what you see. Is this a natural formation or man-made?
What is this made of? Where could it be?
What are these used for? Are they a modern invention?
Who do you think uses these? Describe their lifestyle.
Do these buildings look similar to modern buildings? How are the same? How are they different?
Taos Pueblo, New Mexico Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540
These are Hornos or ovens. They are used for baking bread. What do you think this tells you about the Pueblo lifestyle? How did the Pueblo get their food?
The Pueblo people often farmed. Crops included cotton, beans, squash and corn.
These are examples of adobe dwellings. How long do you think it would take to build these? How long do you think people lived in these dwellings? After looking at these dwellings, do you think these people were nomadic or not?
The Pueblo met their basic needs with:
food
The Pueblo met their basic needs with: food
The Pueblo met their basic needs with: food shelter
The Pueblo met their basic needs with: food shelter
The Pueblo met their basic needs with: food shelter What else do they need?
Water