Describe traditional homes, tools, and foods of a California Native nation using primary-source-style images and descriptions, connecting each to locally available materials.
A primary source is evidence from the actual time and place being studied -- an old drawing, a photograph, a tool kept in a museum, or a basket someone truly wove. Primary sources let us see history directly, instead of only reading someone else's description of it, and historians look closely at them for clues about how people really lived.
Picture a museum photograph of an Ohlone home: a dome-shaped house built by bending willow branches into a frame and covering it with woven tule reeds from the marsh. Or picture a fine, tightly woven basket, made from local plant fibers, woven so tightly that it could even hold water or cook acorn soup by dropping in hot stones. Every home and tool was built from materials the local land actually provided, with nothing shipped in from far away.
Mastery looks like: They can describe at least one traditional home and one tool, explain what a primary source is, and connect each object to a local material.
Common stumbles: Describing homes or tools generically instead of connecting them to specific, real, local materials.