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Lesson Plan 2: The Philadelphia Connection

OBJECTIVES

Students will:


 * be able to gather information from a map and be able to identify and describe the geographic location of Philadelphia
 * be able to examine and gather information from paintings to identify public and private buildings
 * be able to explain the importance of the city of Philadelphia in 1803

__MATERIALS__ IMAGES (On the screen)

South East Corner of Third and Market Streets, Philadelphia, 1799

View of Several Public Buildings in Philadelphia, 1790

The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum, 1822

Aaron Arrowsmith, A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America

SUPPLIES

Current U.S. map with latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates marked.

__OPENING__

Where would you go today to do research for an expedition? What people would you talk with and what places would you go to for preparation?
 * **Create a list of your ideas.**

In 1803, Philadelphia was the largest city in the United States and the intellectual capital of the country. Until only several years before, it had also been the political capital of the nation. Lewis traveled to Philadelphia in May of 1803 to do research for his expedition.

PROCEDURE

1. Each group needs a recorder and reporter. 2. Use the Arrowsmith map (screen) from 1803 and the current map. 3. Students will: 4. Students will 5. Working together in groups, students will: 6. Reporters will share observations with the whole class
 * locate Philadelphia on each map.
 * students should describe the relative location of Philadelphia on both maps in terms of relationship to other states, bodies of water, mountain ranges, roads, etc.
 * record your answers and later report to the whole class
 * find the location of Philadelphia in degrees of longitude and latitude, record their answers, and report to the whole class
 * examine a painting, gather information, and record observations on their analysis chart:
 * Who is in the painting?
 * What buildings, activities, and objects can be seen?
 * Where is this taking place?
 * Is it inside a building or outside?
 * Be as specific as you can be (When is this taking place? Why do you think the artist selected this scene? Why is this scene important?)

__Homework 9__
//Charles Willson Peale// was one of the most remarkable renaissance men of early America. He was first an accomplished artist but also an inventor, naturalist, mastodon excavator, and public educator. Together with his sons, he created a museum that was one of the premier scientific and educational institutions of early America. After 1802, the Peale Museum took over the upstairs rooms of the statehouse where the Declaration of Independence had been signed. It was there when Lewis visited.

Write a journal on the following topic: What can you infer about the city of Philadelphia during Meriwether Lewis's visit from the paintings you observed? Did our city or any cities around us exist in 1803? Most people in 1803 did not live in cities but needed them. What did cities provide to people in rural areas?


 * //OR//**

Write a journal entry about your visit to Philadelphia from Lewis's point of view. Describe what you saw in the city: brick buildings, businesses, people, etc.