This unit is designed to engage students in connecting and relating mathematics through the activities practiced in Pueblo culture.
Resources
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Our Creator’s Gifts: Owning our Stories
Storytelling in all cultures has been a way of life from the beginning of time. In this unit, our children will be given opportunities to share their voice, their knowledge, and their wisdom about the world around them through their words.
Interdependence of Corn, Beans, and Squash and the Land
Understanding the connection and interdependence of all things, students will discuss and analuze the symbotic relationship between corn, beans, and squash.
Urban Relocation and Its Impact on Pueblo People
Implemented in 1952, the Urban Indian Relocation Program was a federal policy to assimilate Native Americans to mainstream society. Studens will learn about the program and explore urbanization to understand how it impacted the Pueblo People of New Mexico.
Cooking With Fractions In Pueblo Feasts
Using Pueblo Feast Days as a real-life example, students can apply the concept of dividing fractions through measuring recipe ingredients.
Life of Pueblo People
The lives of Pueblo People are complex, embodying many layers and requiring depth of understanding. Explore the historical significance of the Pueblo Canes and their link to Pueblo governments today.
Pueblo Feast: A Thriving Economy
Students have the opportunity to plan a business at a Pueblo Feast and use their mathematical skills to plan and manage that business operation.
Water Necessity for Life and Cultural Survival
Explore and identify human and the community uses of water.
Railroad Impact on NM Pueblo Indians
Prior to and after New Mexico became a state, the railroad had a major economic impact on the Pueblo People who lived there. The use of land, the creation of jobs and the impact on Indian art changed the landscape of New Mexico and how “Indians” were viewed.
Protecting Zuni Lake
For a little over two decades, the Zuni Pueblo people fought to protect their beloved Salt Lake. In this unit, students will gain an understanding about this complex struggle as they analyze Zuni perspectives on Salt Lake, viewing it as more than a landmark with the use of metaphor, personification, and analogy.