Distance Learning

Have your class meet virtually with a park ranger to take a tour of the museum at the Gateway Arch and learn about the ways the museum provides a nuanced interpretation of westward expansion and U.S. history.

Learn about the French fur traders who founded the city of St. Louis in 1764, including the lives of merchants Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau. Students will also learn about the rise of St. Louis as a commercial trading post along the Mississippi River.

Students in this distance learning program will learn about the Corps of Discovery's expedition to the Pacific Coast from St. Louis, a round trip that took three years to complete between 1803 and 1806. They will also learn about the lives of Lewis and Clark and the people they interacted with during the expedition.

This distance learning program introduces k-2 students to some of the challenges and choices early pioneers faced while traveling west across prairies, rivers, and mountains from St. Louis to Oregon and California.

The process of creating the Gateway Arch took many, many years before its completion in 1966. Today, the National Park Service manages the Gateway Arch and educates people about the architectural significance of this structure. In this program, students will be taken back to the 1960s to learn about the process of conceiving, designing, and building the tallest national monument in the United States.

In this distance learning program, students will compare and contrast their lives with that of traditional Plains Indian tribes during the 1800s. They will learn how tribes such as the Dakota, Lakota, Osage, and others used nature and the lands around them to shape traditional tribal customs, and discuss how westward expansion changed their way of life.

Echoing the architecture of the ancient Greeks, the Old Courthouse served as the civic hub of St. Louis during the 1800s. Learn more about the significance of the building and how it was used by local and national citizens.