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Gateway Arch National Park

Lewis and Clark

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this program, students learn about the Corps of Discovery's trip to the Pacific Coast from 1803 to 1806, which started and ended in St. Louis. Students also learn about the members of the expedition and the people they interacted with throughout the voyage.

Shenandoah National Park

Life at Lewis Mountain

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This interactive program takes students through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the struggle to make all of Shenandoah National Park for all people.

Gateway Arch National Park

Lewis and Clark Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Learn about the Lewis and Clark voyage from the eyes of Patrick Gass, the longest living member of the expedition, in this interactive traveling trunk.

Gateway Arch National Park

Lewis and Clark (Distance Learning)

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

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.

Important Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Using the Webquest Slides, students will explore and learn about the important members and contributors to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Each slide will have links) to National Park web pages with information about each member or group. For each member, students find four facts and write a sentence about their role (contribution) to the expedition. This activity can be done in a handful of ways, with the suggested method being a Jigsaw.

Biomes and Climates of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This virtual field trip can be completed as a whole class or individual if your school has student devices (Google Earth can be used on most devices, including cellphones). The information can be found on the attached Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint Slides. The presentation will explore the biomes and climates that the Lewis and Clark expedition traveled through during their exploration of the North American Interior. The slides include short videos (Hyperlinked to YouTube), Google Earth

The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Follow a trail of discovery to the Pacific Northwest. Although the corps' findings destroyed the dream of a water route to the Pacific Ocean, their accomplishments had far reaching effects in expanding human knowledge and opening a new course for American history.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site

Albert Gallatin: A Most Astonishing Man - Gallatin and the Lewis and Clark Expedition - Lesson 4

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this lesson the students will use a student reading to learn about the planning and eventual success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Just like today, when you go on a trip you plan and pack. Meriwether Lewis planned and packed for the expedition. The activity sheet has the students match some of the supplies Lewis brought with what type of supplies they were. The students also write about how they think planning may have helped the expedition.

To Code or Not to Code, That was the Question.

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In preparation for the Lewis and Clark expedition Meriwether Lewis and Thomas Jefferson practiced using a newly created cipher. This lesson will teach students how to use the same cipher that they had practiced with for their own use in real life and emphasize the importance of security.

Chapter 9 Lesson Plan: The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

A sign from the Lewis Mountain Campground, a segregated area for African Americans, demonstrates the role of Jim Crow laws on National Parks such as Shenandoah.

Gifts and Trading

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Trading was a very important part of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In this lesson plan students will engage in trading for supplies with other students and learn what the expedition used for trading and traded for.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Fort Clatsop Explorers Traveling Trunk 3rd-5th Grade

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Fort Clatsop Explorers provides objects and activities about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and their winter stay at Fort Clatsop in 1805-06. A few of the objects included are: buckskin clothing, candle mold, flint-n-steel fire starting kit, powder horn, trade items, Jefferson Peace Medal, examples of furs and a housewife (sewing kit). An educators guide contains hands-on activity ideas and descriptions of some of the essential articles carried by the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Clatsop and Chinookan Culture of the Lower Columbia River Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This trunk uses the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to learn about the American Indian peoples--Clatsop and Chinookan, who lived at the mouth of the Columbia River when the expedition visited the area in 1805-06.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Clatsop & Chinookan Culture of the Lower Columbia River Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This trunk uses the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to learn about the American Indian peoples--Clatsop and Chinookan, who lived at the mouth of the Columbia River when the expedition visited the area in 1805-06.

“Tracking” Down the Secret Code / North American Animal “Who am I”

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This lesson will present the diversity of animals found along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, and will help students understand what we can learn about animals from the way they live and move.

I’ll Take This, and I’ll Need That!

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This lesson will have students looking at the items bought by the Lewis and Clark expedition and how their estimated cost compared to the actual cost of the expedition. It will then have students identify items they would need to bring on their own trip somewhere.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Cultural Dress

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers insight into how cultural dress differed during the 1840s and was used to understand the wearer's society, class, occupation, and access to materials.

“With Great Pains and Accuracy”

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Lewis and Clark were given specific instructions on what to write about on their expedition. By reading the original letter given by Thomas Jefferson have your students identify not only the reasons for the Corps of Discovery but also if these can be useful in their own lives while traveling.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Scientific Discovery Trunk 3rd-5th Grade

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This trunk includes exhibit and modern scientific equipment, a resource guide, books, posters and more. It offers students an opportunity to learn about the natural scientific observations from the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the impacts of the changes which have occured over the past 200 years.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Scientific Discovery Trunk 6th-8th Grade

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This trunk includes exhibit and modern scientific equipment, a resource guide, books, posters and more. It offers students an opportunity to learn about the natural scientific observations from the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the impacts of the changes which have occurred over the past 200 years.