Lewis and Clark: Their Journals, Their Maps, and Their Dog
By Kelli Mills and Paige Waggoner
Summer Fellowship 2010
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Lesson 7:
Plants and animals discovered.
Purpose:
One purpose of the expedition was to catalog new species of plants and
animals. This lesson will
introduce some of these discoveries to the students.
Drawing of a tanager.
Two-thirds down the page
begins a description of the burrowing squirrel.
This page continues the
description of the burrowing squirrel.
A
description of the black woodpecker.
Assessment: For
the newsletter, using the description by Lewis, students will sketch the
burrowing squirrel or the black woodpecker, using key words and measurements.
A drawing
of the woodpecker, based on specimens sent back by Lewis and Clark.
Detailed
description of a large fish, taken apart and weighed.
Vocabulary to teach includes the word Òentrails.Ó
Plant sample named for and
sent back by Lewis.
Plant sample named for and
sent back by Lewis.
Refer back to Anchor chart developed in Lesson
3: After reading about plants and animals,
fill in anchor chart with facts as a class.
Assessment: Students
will write a journal entry regarding the discoveries or a fact they have
learned. Students will then choose
one discovery or fact to write on a sticky note which
will be placed on an anchor chart at the front of the room.
