Procedure
- Prior to reading the book about Lewis and Clark
the class is divided into groups with 4-6 students in each.
- The assignment is to have each group work on a
particular section of the story. This can be done by dividing the
book evenly into parts or by the time frame such as prior to the
trip, the first two months, when they reached the Rocky Mountains,
and so on.
- Each group will is responsible for five events
that occurred during their period of time.
- They then create five computer pages, such as a web page, depicting the
events, supplementing the
information by researching online, adding the date and pictures or clip art.
- Their own artwork may be scanned in. in. All
pages are placed in chronological order on a wall or
board.
- An oral presentation of the entire timeline is performed by each group as a culminating activity.
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Evaluation
Each group will answer the
following set of questions before turning in their work.
1. What is the main idea of our part of the timeline?
2. Who are the most important characters?
3. Give five characteristics of each.
Background Information
Long before he became the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson
had dreamed of sending explorers across North America. When Jefferson took
office in 1801, most of the United States population lived within 50 miles of
the Atlantic Ocean. Knowledge of the western part of the continent was limited
to what had been learned from French traders and fur trappers and Spanish and
British explorers.
On January 18, 1803, President Jefferson sent a confidential letter to Congress
asking for $2,500 to fund an expedition to the Pacific Ocean. He hoped to
establish trade with the Native American people of the West and find a water
route to the Pacific. Jefferson also was fascinated by the prospect of what
could be learned about the geography of the West, the lives and languages of the
Native Americans, the plants and animals, the soil, the rocks, the weather, and
how they differed from those in the East.
http://monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/origins.html
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