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 (6948 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 (3534 downloads) Sacagawea.pdf (2792 downloads)

Notebook Pages

    
William-Clark-NB.pdf (1948 downloads)          Meriwether-Lewis-NB.pdf (1768 downloads)

 
Lewis-and-Clark-NB-BW.pdf (2102 downloads)              Sacagawea-NB-BW.pdf (1866 downloads)

 

Botany-on-the-Lewis-and-Clark-Expedition.pdf (2366 downloads)         Geography-on-the-Lewis-and-Clark-Expedition.pdf (2284 downloads)

Coloring Pages

 

Lewis-Clark-Coloring-1.pdf (2625 downloads)     Lewis-Clark-Coloring-2.pdf (2031 downloads)

 

Lewis-Clark-Coloring-Cameahwait-Copy.pdf (1770 downloads)   Lewis-Clark-Coloring-Hidatsa.pdf (1561 downloads)

Lewis-Clark-Coloring-Sacagawea.pdf (2318 downloads)

GRAB THESE OTHER RESOURCES AND HANDS-ON IDEAS

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.