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Lewis and Clark Expedition
Day One |
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| Grade: 5th |
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| Time: 1 Social Studies period (45 min to an hour) |
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| Objective: Students will gain a deeper understanding of how unknown the land of the Louisiana Purchase was to the American people in the early 1800s.� They will also have an understanding of just how many discoveries were made by the Lewis and Clark Expedition as they traveled through the land. |
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| InterestBuilding:� The students will already be or are just about to start a literature circle that is about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.� This lesson plan should be taught in conjunction, or as a companion, with the Lewis and Clark literature circle (can be found on my website). |
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Lesson Development: Day 1:� Start off with a KWL chart to determine what the students already know, or think they know, about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.� This is also so that you, as the teacher, will know what they are most interested in learning about in this topic.
Laying the foundations for the lesson: |
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| Louisiana Purchase: |
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Talk to the students about how the United States came to own the Louisiana Purchase (map attached to end of lesson), who was involved in the selling and buying of this land: President Jefferson bought the land from Napoleon Bonaparte of France.� (The names are linked to websites that have biographical information on these two men.)Show a map of the United States before Lewis and Clark began their trip and talk to your students about how no one knew what lay beyond the borders of the LA purchase.�
Give students the quiz found on this website (no grade will be given, just an illustration) and talk to students after taking the quiz about how Jefferson and a majority of the American citizens thought that many of these statements were true because no one knew any better.� Even some of President Jefferson?s books had some of the quiz statements in them as fact. |
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Summary and Assessment: Start by allowing students to add to the L part of the KWL chart of what they learned today.� The teacher can ask review questions and if the students answer correctly, then they get to add that fact to the L part of the KWL.
Summarize what has been taught and learned today by restating student answers in this format: ?So you?re saying that?.? or ?I understand that you said?..? |
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| Follow-up: |
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| As you go through the rest of the Lewis and Clark unit (in Social Studies and Literature) have students keep track on a map as to where the Expedition is at the end of every lesson. |
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| Needed Materials: |
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Chart paper for KWL: one piece per part of the chart with wall space to display them together throughout the unit.
Either copies of Louisiana Purchase map for students or an enlarged copy on overhead, smartboard, etc. for all students to see.
Copies of the map of the US before the Lewis and Clark Expedition returned from their journey.
A copy of the quiz for the teacher to use in administering the quiz. |
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| Integration: |
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| Math:� Students can use the facts that the Louisiana Purchase was approximately 828,000 square miles and that the United States bought it for $15 million dollars to find out how much each square mile cost.� Then can use the fact that it was about 4 cents an acre to determine how many square miles is in an acre. |
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| NC Competencies: |
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| COMPETENCY GOAL 4: The learner will trace key developments in United States history and describe their impact on the land and people of the nation and its neighboring countries. |
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| Objectives |
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| 4.01 Define the role of an historian and explain the importance of studying history. |
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| 4.03 Describe the contributions of people of diverse cultures throughout the history of the United States. |
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| Thematic Strands:� Geography, Political Science, and History |
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| References: |
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| Lesson ideas from this site, also map and quiz: |
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| http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=297 |
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| Background on Jefferson and Louisiana Purchase |
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| http://www.americanpresident.org/history/thomasjefferson/biography/ForeignAffairs.common.shtml |
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| Background on Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| http://www.napoleonseries.org/faq/who.cfm |
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