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Yellowstone National Park

Expedition Yellowstone

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Teachers can view a sample of the Expedition Yellowstone curriculum. The curriculum in its entirety can be purchased for $60 through the Yellowstone Association by calling 406-848-2400.

Yellowstone National Park

Expedition Yellowstone: Field School

• Type: Field Schools & Institutes
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This 4-5 day residential curriculum-based program is offered for teachers and their 4-8th grade classes. Students learn about the natural and cultural history of Yellowstone, investigate current issues affecting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and promote stewardship and preservation in the park and in home communities.

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.

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Women of the Military Frontier

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Men weren't the only people at frontier military posts - women lived at these forts as well. Find out who they were and how they spent their days.

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

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.

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.

Andersonville National Historic Site

The martyrs who, for our country, gave up their lives in the prison pens in Andersonville, Ga

• Type: Primary Sources
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Captain James M. Moore, assistant quartermaster United States army, led the expedition to Andersonville in the summer of 1865 which established the National Cemetery. This booklet includes his official report of the expedition and includes a listing of the dead buried at Andersonville.

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.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Stepping Off the Map

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

Map making was an important part of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Maps of the era were often just best guesses as to what could possibly lie in the middle of the continent. In this lesson your students will learn about the maps of the expedition and even make one of their own based on descriptions.

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.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

Six for Six

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will be led on a day-long expedition on the Fort to Sea trail. Along the way they will be participating in team building activities and have time for self-reflection.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Best Field Trip Ever! Field Trip Planner: Gettysburg National Military Park

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

We are pleased to offer this Field Trip Planner for visiting Gettysburg National Military Park. We want this publication to help you make the best choices for your field trip and your students – based on the age, size and budget of your group, as well as the amount of time that you have to spend at Gettysburg. In short, we want to help you plan the best field trip ever!

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

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.

Philadelphia and San Francisco in 1776: The National Park Sites Where History Unfolded! Grade 5

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

Students will learn about the historic events occurring on opposite ends of the United States during the year 1776: the Anza Expedition and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In doing so, students will understand the importance of preserving our nation's historical and cultural sites.