1. Zoom In Inquiry

2. What might primary sources tell us about science?
Examine primary source clues carefully. Determine what you see and what questions you might ask to get
the “big picture”.

3. What do you see?

4. What new things do you see?
If you were standing in the picture, make a hypothesis about the climate?

5. What new things do you see?
What evidence do you have to support or change your hypothesis?

6. What new things do you see?
Make a hypothesis about where this picture was taken.

7. What new things do you see?
What evidence do you have to support or change your hypotheses about where this image was taken?
What animals might live there?

8. Did your beginning hypothesis change about where the picture was taken?

9. What can you learn about habitats from this image?
At what point did you realize that you needed to change your hypothesis about the weather and about where the picture was taken?

10. What do you see?

11. What new things do you see?
Make a hypothesis about where you think the image was taken?

12. What new evidence do you have to support or change your hypothesis?

13. Where was this image taken?

14. What part of the image helped you identify this habitat?
How is this habitat different from the desert habitat?
What animals might live here?

15. What do these images tell you about the “big picture”?

16. Discussion Questions
What is the “big picture” that these images helped you to identify?
What did you learn about habitats after viewing these images?
How would you define habitat?

17.        
Delano, J. (1941). Landscape on the Jackson farm, vicinity of White Plains, Ga. Library of Congress: American Memory, America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca
Lee, R. (1942). Stand of virgin ponderosa pine, Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon. Library of Congress: American Memory, America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca
Rhoads, H. M. ( ). Ocean pier (?) / photo by Harry M. Rhoads. Library of Congress: American Memory, History of the American West, : Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library.
Unknown. ( ). [White Oak Swamp, Va. View]. Library of Congress: American Memory, Selected Civil War Photographs.
Vachon, J. (1942). Landscape, Northeast Utah. Library of Congress: American Memory, America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca