Find an interactive Lewis and Clark site here:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/
Find lots of interesting information here, as well as an Interactive Journey Log, similar to the one we’ll be working on in class:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
For an interactive route map and details on all of the discoveries, check out this site (also has information about the Louisiana Purchase we studied last week):
http://mrnussbaum.com/lcflash/
Imagine that one morning you woke up and discovered your house had grown twice as big. How would you feel and what would you do? Well, in 1803, Americans faced a very similar situation on a much larger scale. President Thomas Jefferson had purchased 820,000 square miles from France (known as the Louisiana Purchase) and suddenly doubled the size of the United States. Americans were very excited about this new territory but it was also a mystery. What did the land look like? How could you cross it? What kinds of animals and plants lived there? Would the Native Americans who lived there be welcoming? Very few white people had traveled to this western part of the country and the few maps that existed were patchy and unreliable. So President Jefferson decided to hire a group of men to explore this new America…..
Read and do more here (also has information about the Louisiana Purchase).
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/lewis_clark/prepare.htm
Find an interactive Lewis and Clark trail here:
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/games/lewisclarkadventure/
Below you'll find 2 videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVTf1LJUQLg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akwki7Ozbm0