Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: My Adventure With Lewis & Clark

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Over the course of five days, students will create a daily journal in the style of Lewis and Clark. At the end of the week, the students will create a video using their Flip cameras recreating their journals.
Handout
Oregon Secretary of State

Oregon Blue Book: Oregon History: Land Based Fur Trade and Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed overview of Oregon's early history, including the Lewis and Clark expedition and what it accomplished, and the development and decline of the fur trade industry.
Handout
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: The Botanists

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of Discovering Lewis & Clark examines Lewis's role as a naturalist and features biographical sketches of botanists David Douglas, Frederick Traugott Pursh, Thomas Nuttall, and Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz.
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Lewis and Clark Barter With the Native Americans

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using the study of the Lewis and Clark expedition students will define the term barter and give examples of bartering.
Article
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Across the Continental Divide

For Students 9th - 10th
In late 1805, Lewis led his party across the Continental Divide. Read numerous journal entries that describe in vivid detail this experience.
Handout
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Lewis's Medicine Chest

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover what Lewis had on his shopping list of medical supplies. The contents of Lewis's list have much to tell us about the medical challenges he expected to face on his journey. It included both botanical and chemical medicines,...
Article
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Portage Route Survey

For Students 9th - 10th
Features an example of a route survey conducted by William Clark in 1805 of the falls, rapids, cascades and ravines from the lower portage camp to the upper falls (Black Eagle) and beyond, using a circumferentor (surveyor's compass) to...
Graphic
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Travelers' Rest to Lolo Pass

For Students 9th - 10th
Features Clark's sketch map of Travelers' Rest to Lolo Pass, Montana.
Handout
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Outfitting the Expedition

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what Lewis purchased to outfit his expeditionary force. He also purchased gifts and trade goods for the Indian tribes they would encounter. Includes a detailed list of the provisions.
Website
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Down the Ohio and Into the Wilderness

For Students 9th - 10th
The expedition spent two and a half months descending the Ohio River. This journal entry describes the Corps of Discovery and their journey down that river.
Handout
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Cryptography

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the origins and history of cryptology and how Thomas Jefferson urged Lewis to use a cipher to keep him informed about the progress of the expedition.
Handout
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Benjamin Rush, m.d.

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn detailed information about the life and education of Dr. Benjamin Rush who advised Lewis on how to keep his men healthy and what questions to ask to determine the health practices of the Indians he would encounter. Rush was also a...
Article
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Columbia River Discoveries

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource tells the story of the exploration of the "Great River of the West" in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Article
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Alexander Mackenzie

For Students 9th - 10th
Article compares in detail the expeditions of Alexander Mackenzie in 1793 and the Corps of Discovery in 1804 to cross the western portion of the United States.
Article
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Music on the Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how the men of the expedition turned to music for entertainment or to impress the Indians they met. Learn about and listen to Jefferson the violinist and Pierre Cruzatte the fiddle player.
Website
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Nathaniel Hale Pryor

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the military career and explorations of Nathaniel Hale Pryor.
Website
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: The Army in 1803

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the peacetime military strategy of Thomas Jefferson which saw the reorganization of the forces under the direction of Meriwether Lewis. Also describes the influence of Baron von Steuben on military training and organization,...
Article
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Fort Mountain (Square Butte)

For Students 9th - 10th
Features images and a vivid description of "Fort Mountain" or Square Butte as it is now called. Also, includes the observations of Meriwether Lewis from July of 1805.
Website
Other

Lewis and Clark trail.com: Sacagawea

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of links and a video with information about Sacagawea's life, gleaned from the journals of Lewis and Clark.
Article
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: The Osage Joins the Missouri

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides details of Lewis and Clark's visit to the Osage River territory in June 1804.
Primary
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: An Indian Commission

For Students 9th - 10th
Features a reproduction of the only existing commission filled out and signed by Lewis and Clark on August 31, 1804.
Article
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: The Big Muddy Joins the Mighty Miss

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover interesting facts about the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers during the time of Lewis and Clark through maps.
Article
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: The Missouri: Habits & Eccentricities

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a closer look at the "Big Muddy" and all its peculiarities. Learn about the personality of the Missouri River from the days of Lewis and Clark up to today.
Activity
PBS

Pbs: Lewis and Clark: Walla Walla Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
What good hosts the Walla Walla Indians were to the Corps of Discovery. Read about the gifts exchanged and the celebrations held when Lewis, Clark, and their men stopped by for a visit. From PBS.

Other popular searches