Lewis and Clark: Their Journals, Their Maps, and Their Dog

By Kelli Mills and Paige Waggoner

Summer Fellowship 2010

 

 

To download this lesson plan in PDF format, click here.

 

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.

 

1763 French map.jpg

 

1783 NA map.jpg

 

1784 US map.jpg

 

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.