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Lesson Plan 1: How do you plan?

OBJECTIVES

Students will:


 * analyze data from primary documents and identify and classify objects needed for the expedition
 * use map skills to compare the size of the U.S. in 1803 with its current size; identify waterways used for the expedition; identify landforms that were natural obstacles for the expedition; and estimate the distance covered in the expedition

__MATERIALS__ IMAGES


 * Aaron Arrowsmith, A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America (On the screen)

READING


 * [[file:Jefferson's Instructions.pdf]]

PROCEDURE

1. Using the current US map on the wall and a map from 1803 that will be projected on the screen, • Compare the size of the US from 1803 to the present • Brainstorm the similarities and differences of the maps • Record your ideas and your reporter will share will the whole class Next • Discuss why the maps look different • What has changed in the last 200 years?

2. Using the current US map, locate the waterways used for the expedition and natural landform barriers, such as mountains. Use the map to: • Estimate the distance traveled (the expedition officially began at the St. Louis area, Lewis traveled from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh, then down the Ohio River to the Mississippi River then north to St. Louis.) • Compare the distance by river to modern distance by road

3. Lewis had not traveled that far west before and no American had by land all the way to the Pacific Ocean. • How would you prepare for a trip to an unknown area? • How would you predict what supplies you would need to take?

4. Lewis and Clark took along many supplies for their expedition. Based on the information in Jefferson’s instructions • Brainstorm a list of items you think would have been needed for Lewis and Clark’s expedition • Your list should include types of information Lewis would need to know • Your list should also include types of supplies Lewis would have needed to purchase • Reporters will share information with the whole class

Homework 8
In your notebook or binder, write a journal entry from Lewis’s point of view from April 1803 in Philadelphia. Tell about: • the purpose of //your// expedition, • the estimated distance and duration, • and what kinds of supplies //you// think //you’ll// need for //your// expedition. • This should be written in first person.