| The Adobe Building Game by Carol Schlenk |
When Juan de Oņate journeyed through the southwest in 1598, he saw a dry, sun-baked landscape from which the American style of adobe architecture emerged. Although usually associated with the American southwest, adobe is among the oldest of all building materials. Examples of ancient adobe buildings can still be seen in the Middle East. 
When the Spanish conquistadors brought adobe brick-making with them to the New World, that method of using earth as a building material merged with the pueblo building style of the Indians of the American southwest to create the famous "pueblo" architecture so prevalent in Arizona and New Mexico.In "The Adobe Building Game", you will investigate the process of building with adobe by sequencing the steps in the building process. |
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This game tests your understanding of the steps in the adobe building process. You are presented with fifteen steps in the process of building an adobe house. These steps are out of order. Your task is to select each step in its correct order. |
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Every time you play the game, the steps are presented on the left-hand side, out of order. Find the first step and click on it. If you are correct, it will appear on the right side of the game board. If you are not correct, you will be prompted to select again. Each time you select a correct image, one piece of an adobe building picture will appear. For each step you select correctly on the first try, you score two points. If you select a step on the second attempt, you score one point. No points are awarded after the second try although the image will continue to display, piece by piece. Try to assemble the image with a perfect score of 30! |
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