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Corn Maidens, Silvery Minnows, Rain, and Sustainability

Corn Maidens, Silvery Minnows, Rain, and Sustainability. Created for SC2001 Education Program by Native American Preparatory School Educators (Levine, McCutcheon, Medina, Partin). Silvery Minnow hybognathus amarus. What are Acequias.

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Corn Maidens, Silvery Minnows, Rain, and Sustainability

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  1. Corn Maidens, Silvery Minnows, Rain, and Sustainability • Created for SC2001 Education Program by Native American Preparatory School Educators • (Levine, McCutcheon, Medina, Partin) Silvery Minnow hybognathus amarus

  2. What are Acequias • Acequias are traditional community based irrigation systems used in the Southwestern US • They are culturally important to the people of the area • They are currently threatened • Earliest examples include aqueducts constructed by the Incas thousands of years ago • Spanish for “Ditch”

  3. Acequias – The Center of the Wheel • Imagine that the module is a wheel • The topic is the hub = Acequias • Each connected idea makes a possible unit = Spokes

  4. Acequias – Four Main Units • Corn Maidens Crop Selection for Water Conservation • Silvery Minnows Genetics, Statistics, Selection Pressures • Rain Fluid Dynamics, Drought, and Chaos Theory • Slag Water Chemisty, Pollution, and Survival

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