LINKS to MORE ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF LEWIS AND CLARK

Glossary from the National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Education/Glossary&PronunciationGuide.htm
 

Sample some of the extraordinary f wildlife along the Trail due to the the variety of terrestrial and aquatic habitats across this range. Wildlife on the LC Trail. This site is from the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. http://www.fs.fed.us/npnht/wildlife/

American Treasures of the Library of Congress
shows photographs of original maps and documents from the early 1800's. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr001.html
 

Photographs of the Lewis and Clark Trail. This resource is "dedicated to providing designers, publishers, researchers and the general public with photographs of the Lewis and Clark Trail, along with subject matter related to the Lewis and Clark Expedition." http://www.lewisandclarkpictures.com/

Explore the same route as the Corps of Discovery with the Interactive Trail Map at PBS's Lewis and Clark. This website accompanies the film,The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, by Ken Burns.

Read the Journals of Lewis and Clark online
http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/.

Discover Lewis and Clark as Naturalists. Browse by state, by species,or by date. http://www.mnh.si.edu/lewisandclark/index.html?loc=/lewisandclark/home.html

Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation is your link to maps of the expedition route, the expedition timeline, an expedition roster and more. http://www.lewisandclark.org/?p=lib_landcexp&n=landcexp
Includes a Curriculum Guide. http://www.lewisandclark.org/?p=curriculum_guide&n=publications
 

Uncover more with a trip to the Idaho Public TV's Lewis and Clark website...which includes an extensive list of additional links.
http://www.idahoptv.org/lc/
 

Sierra Club In the footsteps of Lewis and Clark http://www.sierraclub.org/lewisandclark/
Rivers, Forests, and Prairies
 

Lesson Plans:

• Grizzly Bears
  http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Education/GrizzlyBears/GrizzlyBears.htm
• You, too, can be an explorer
  http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Education/Explorers/Explorers.htm
• Lewis and Clark as Researchers
  http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Education/Lewis&ClarkResearchers/Researchers.htm
• The Trail today http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/lesson_plans/LP_TrailToday.htm In this lesson, students will look at towns along the Lewis and Clark Trail today, and compare the towns in the years 1800, 1900, and 2000
• The Lewis and Clark Trail--Two Hundred Years Later
  http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Education/TheWestToday/ResearchTrailLater.htm
  To identify changes to the environment resulting from westward expansion; to learn what various groups are doing across America to restore some of the environmental losses caused by westward expansion; to examine the effects of westward expansion on western American Indian tribes; to learn what tribal groups are doing today to restore and maintain their traditional culture
  
• Teaching with documents Lesson Plan from the US Government Archives http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/lewis_and_clark/lewis_and_clark.html
  
• Impact of the Expedition Lesson Plan
  http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/lesson_plans/LP_ImpactExpedition.htm
• How a sextant works http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/navigate/escapeworks.html
• Navigation by Sextant http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/navigate/escapenav.html

Lesson Plans from the USGS:

Lesson Plan...What do maps show? http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/teachers-packets/mapshow/

Teaching with Topographic Maps http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/outreach/topoteach.html

Exploring Maps (grades 7-12) http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/teachers-packets/exploringmaps/

Grids and the Process of Mapmaking (grades 6-12) http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/lesson_plans/LP_GreatGrids.htm