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Solutions
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of
student work
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- Answers
will vary, but students should note that the shadows will
become shorter as noon approaches. At noon, the sun will be
shining from a different direction. In the Northern Hemisphere,
the sun shines from the east in the morning and from the south
around noon.
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Students read about Acoma Pueblo. They study the shadows in
a photograph of Acoma Pueblo.
Planning
Students may work on problem 1 individually or in small
groups.
Comments
about the Problems
- You
might remind students of the activity on pages 22-24 of
the Student Book, in which they measured shadows of sticks
at different times of the day. In that activity, they learned
that the sun shines from different directions at different
times of the day and that the lengths of shadows change
during the day.
Did
You Know? Acoma Pueblo is also known as "Sky City."
The pueblo's name comes from the Keresan language: ako
means "white rock," and ma means "people."
Acoma's people live in adobe houses at the top of a sandstone
butte 357 feet (109 meters) high. Most make a living by farming
on the plains below or by making pottery. The village has
been inhabited since the 10th century. Logs for it's mission
church, San Esteban Rey, and dirt for its graveyard were hauled
up the cliffs in 1629-1641. Today, people can reach Acoma
by road or by climbing a staircase cut into the rock.
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