Lewis and Clark: Their Journals, Their Maps, and Their Dog
By Kelli Mills and Paige Waggoner
Summer Fellowship 2010
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Lesson 2:
Maps: -Before the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Purpose:
Using the following
primary-source maps, this lesson will show students that the newly purchased
Louisiana territory was unmapped and unknown.
For
younger students, the teacher will display a Venn Diagram that the class will
fill in together, noting differences and similarities in the way that France
and the United States had mapped the territory. Older students will pairs or groups and then share out with
the class.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/venn/venn.pdf
http://pages.cms.k12.nc.us/gems/bfghs/venndiagram3circles.pdf
http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=28&title=
A
Venn Diagram anchor chart will be developed for either
grade level to display during the remainder of the unit.
