See the Project Overview What is the Legacy of Lewis and Clark? What can we discover by studying Lewis and Clark? Collaboration among students and teachers How will technology be integrated? What standards does this address? See the student directions How will students be assessed? View the sample project page Learn about the Charter School of Morgan Hill
 

Student Resources

Online

American Memory - Great visual content about the expedition

Great Falls Tribune - News Articles, information and links

Collingswood Virtual School - Many links to Lewis and Clark web sites

National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration - Great information from a Native American perspective

Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail Foundation - More information about Indian Tribes encountered by Lewis and Clark, and the trail itself

University of Virginia - Lewis and Clark links related to preparation and maps

Lewis and Clark's Historic Trail - Timeline and Journal entries of the journey. Includes maps.

Go West With Lewis and Clark - National Geographic for Kids with many interactive games and quizzes

Lewis and Clark's Northwest Journey - Site with a focus on the expeditions experiences in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana

Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Rediscovery - Great interactive map with information about what is happening along the Lewis and Clark Trail today

Trailblazers - Information about other explorers who blazed the westward trail, some who reached the Pacific before Lewis and Clark

In the Local Library

Santa Clara County Library - Look here to search what is in our local library

Some Recommendations from the Library

This Vast Land: A Young Man's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition - A fictional accounting of Lewis and Clark's travels by a famous historian (Stephen E. Ambrose)

As Far as the Eye Can Reach : Lewis and Clark 's Westward Quest - Children's nonfiction accounting of the travel west by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Sacagawea - The story of the trusted Indian guide and companion to Lewis and Clark by Lise Erdrich

The Lewis and Clark Journals : an American Epic of Discovery - The Journals of the Corps of Discovery edited by Gary E. Moulton

The Great Expedition of Lewis and Clark : by Private Reubin Field, Member of the Corps of Discovery as recorded by Judith Edwards, a first person telling of the expedition

The Lewis and Clark Companion : An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery - Lots of reference material about the expedition by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs

Sacajawea: the story of Bird Woman and the Lewis & Clark Expedition - a fictional telling of Sacajawea's role in the expedition by Joseph Bruchac

Undaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis , Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West perhaps one of the most famous recent works about Lewis and Clark, by Stephen E. Ambrose

The Journals of Lewis and Clark - The collected journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Anthony Brandt

 

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