Lewis and Clark Lapbook – {1804 to 1806}
The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river & such principal stream of it, as, by it’s course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean…may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent for the purpose of commerce.
Words by President Thomas Jefferson, June, 1803.
There is probably no more famous words for explorers Lewis and Clark than those penned by President Thomas Jefferson.


This lapbook was made with letter size file folder that was turned landscape.


Dynamic-2-moms-Lewis-Clark-Lapbook.pdf (8444 downloads)
*Note some of the notebook pages are individual downloads. They are at the bottom.
This next section below has pictures of the minibooks included in the above DOWNLOAD ALL link. The pictures are included to help you plan.
Covers (Note: Also look down at coloring pages for front covers)
Cover 1 Cover 2
Cover 3
Meriwether Lewis William Clark
Sacagawea mini pocket book The Enlisted Men
Map What did they take?
The Mission How long was the journey
Doctoring in the Wilderness Indian Country
The study of Lewis and Clark can have so many topics. You could easily replace any of these minibooks with the plants and animals fact books on the Westward Ho page. The animals on the Westward Ho page are the same ones that Lewis and Clark “sketched” and wrote about.
When we covered Westward Ho as a co-op we covered more of the animals then that were “discovered” by the Corp of Discovery. There were so many animals and plants we wanted to explore them with our co-op setting. So if you do this topic with a co-op, the animals and plants really lend themselves nice to a group setting.
If not, you can simply add a flap to this lapbook and add in the Louisiana Purchase on this page and the animals and plants on the Westward Ho page.
In addition, some of the girls in our co-op elevated Sacagawea to almost the “Leader” of the Corp of Discovery…LOL. So we added another matchbook minibook on Sacagawea that too can be substituted if they want to do research on her.
Louisiana Purchase
1803-Louisiana-Purchase-Fact-Book.pdf (4244 downloads)
Sacagawea.pdf (3465 downloads)
Notebook Pages
William-Clark-NB.pdf (2474 downloads)
Meriwether-Lewis-NB.pdf (2281 downloads)
Lewis-and-Clark-NB-BW.pdf (2635 downloads)
Sacagawea-NB-BW.pdf (2384 downloads)
Botany-on-the-Lewis-and-Clark-Expedition.pdf (3000 downloads) Geography-on-the-Lewis-and-Clark-Expedition.pdf (2908 downloads)
Coloring Pages
Lewis-Clark-Coloring-1.pdf (3166 downloads) Lewis-Clark-Coloring-2.pdf (2560 downloads)
Lewis-Clark-Coloring-Cameahwait-Copy.pdf (2251 downloads) Lewis-Clark-Coloring-Hidatsa.pdf (2033 downloads)
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Other Links
Other Free Material and Resources.
Be sure to visit Pamela’s HubPages site about Lewis and Clark. Thanks Pamela!
Kidsuki Beautiful printable coloring pages of Sacagawea
Sites about the trail, animals and plants.
The Sierra Club does a beautiful job on Lewis and Clark. They have keeping it will, then and now, on the trail and the photos of the animals are just beautiful. In addition there is a 50 page pdf download that you could almost just use by itself as a study guide. Many of the facts on the animals from the Westward Ho lapbook came from this reference.
Sierra Club 50 page download on animals.
Pro Teacher Click on “Historical” and two nice maps of Lewis and Clark route’s will be in pdf format.Activities
Eiteljorg Museum This site shows how to make an easy flatboat and Nez Perce flat bag.
Bingo Game – very nice bingo game with pictures of animals, plants and landmarks.
Other Notebooking pages
Crayola Even though this page on the journey westward is a coloring page, we have used it for a notebook page.
Thank you so much for this resource! It is a true blessing!
You are very welcome Jeanette. I’m glad you’re here and can use them.