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SS2
Formative
Assessment:
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Who were Lewis and Clark?
·
What role did they play in the history of Missouri?
Instructional
Strategies or Activities:
a. PBS—“Sacagawea”: http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/saca.html
b. LewisandClarkTrail.com—Wood
River, Illinois:
http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/section1/illinoiscities/Woodriver/RollCall/index.ht
c. University of
Washington—Activated Travel Map:
http://staff.washington.edu/~muzi/LC/Lcmap.html
Books,
magazines, and newspapers dealing with Lewis and Clark’s expedition
a. Kids Discover Lewis and Clark (Volume
6, Issue 9, l996)
b. Missouri, Then and Now (McCandless and Foley, 2001)
c. MO Studies Weekly, (Various volumes and
issues)
Through research students will discover information
about the importance of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the impact it had on
the United States.
1. Obtain necessary materials.
2. Break the class into partners.
3. Each pair of students will research and document the significant events of Lewis and Clark’s expedition using available resources (see materials list.) The students should have at least nine events with their corresponding dates.
4. Allow time for students to construct a paragraph about the importance of the expedition. This paragraph should have an introductory main idea sentence, three sentences that support the main idea sentence, and a concluding sentence that restates the main idea.
5. Show students how to create a two-paged, three-columned pamphlet. On page one, the left column will be for the paragraph, the middle column will be for the list of resource used, and the right column will be the title page. On page two, all three columns will be for the timeline, and the events should be listed chronologically. A suggestion for a title on this second page would be “Timeline: Lewis and Clark Expedition.”
6. Instruct the students to create illustrations of find digital images about Lewis and Clark. Insert these illustrations into the pamphlet.
Summative
Assessment:
Have the students present their pamphlets to the class.