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LEWIS AND CLARK - ACTIVITIES

The section contains both printable and online activities related to the Lewis and Clark expedition.

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Discoveries from the Journal of Meriwether Lewis - A Primary Source Digital Scavenger Hunt

Description: This activity requires students to use the excerpts from the journal of Meriwether Lewis to answer the scavenger hunt questions.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark Digital Scavenger Hunt

Description: This activity requires students to use the interactive Lewis and Clark tour to answer the scavenger hunt questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Ms. Information Games - Lewis and Clark

Description: Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to the Missouri River to change the story of the events in the Lewis and Clark expeditionr. Use your knowledge of these causes to foil her plan once and for all!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Lewis and Clark in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Lewis and Clark, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Digital Compare and Contrast - Lewis and Clark

Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Students must evaluate ten statements and determine if each is associated with Lewis, Clark, or Both. The activity provides short biographies and gives immediate feedback.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Comparing and Contrasting Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Students must evaluate ten statements to determine if each is associated with Lewis, Clark, or Both.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Sacagawea Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Sacagawea in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Sacagawea, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 +

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Lewis and Clark Cloze Reading

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Type: Cloze Reading

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Sequencing Focus

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Contextual Vocabulary Focus

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Details Focus

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 395 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Sequencing Focus - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark Correct-me Passage

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about Lewis and Clark that has nine factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This is a coloring page that features a United States Postage Stamp honoring the 200th Anniversary of the Lewis and Clark adventure.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Lewis and Clark Activities Bundle - All 17 of the Printable Lewis and Clark Activities on this Site.

Description: This packet contains all 17 of the printable Lewis and Clark activities on MrNussbaum.com

Type: Printable Units

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Dynamic Duo - Lewis and Clark

Description: This printable exercise requires students to compare Lewis and Clark to other "dynamic duos" in literature, movies, or even sports.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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"The Climb" - Lewis and Clark

Description: This printout requires students to consider a time when they thought they were at the cusp of finishing something great, only to learn there was MUCH more work to do - ALA Miley Cyrus.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

The Lost Journal Pages of Meriwether Lewis

Description: When Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the vast Louisiana Territory, he had visions that they’d find exotic creatures such as wholly mammoths and undiscovered landforms such as mountains made of salt. While Lewis and Clark discovered over three hundred species of animals and plants, and even sent a magpie and prairie dog as pets to Thomas Jefferson, they never found the kind of creatures that legends are made of (though they did find massive grizzly bears). What if Lewis and Clark actually did discover an unworldly plant, animal, and landform, but those pages were somehow lost from Lewis’ journal forever when their keelboat capsized? In the spaces provided below, use your imagination to name, draw, and describe these lost discoveries.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Sacagawea Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Sacagawea Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Sacagawea - the Unsung Hero

Description: This activity explains the idea of Sacagawea as an unsung hero. Students must then write about an unsung hero they select from movies, literature, sports, or their own lives.

Type: Social Studies Prompt

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Meriwether Lewis Fact or Fiction

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Meriwether Lewis passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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William Clark Fact or Fiction

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a William Clark passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Sacagawea Fact or Fiction

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Sacagawea passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Sacagawea United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page

Description: This is a coloring page that features a United States postage stamp honoring Sacagawea.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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The Long Lost Drawing of Sacagawea - Lewis and Clark

Description: Did you know that there are no known drawings of depictions of Sacagawea? All of the images you see of her today are simply guesses. This activity shows three different depictions of Sacagawea and challenges students to author their own "authentic" sketch of Sacagawea.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Louisiana Purchase Description and Map

Description: This page describes the Louisiana Purchase.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Louisiana Purchase Label-me Quiz

Description: This activity requires students to label the states that would eventually be carved from the Louisiana Territory.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Louisiana Purchase Label-me Quiz - Online

Description: This activity requires students to identify the states that would eventually be carved from the Louisiana Territory

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Louisiana Purchase Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Women on American Coins and Currency

Description: This activity teaches students about the various coins and dollar bills in America that have featured famous women such as Sacagawea, Martha Washington, Susan B. Anthony and (soon) Harriet Tubman. It then requires students to make their own coin and dollar bill featuring a famous woman and to describe the reasons for their choice (s).

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Missouri River States Label-me Map

Description: This activity requires students to label the Missouri River states.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Sioux (Lakota) Nation Profile

Description: This section contains detailed information on Sioux (Lakota) land, diet, homes, culture, and wars with the U.S. Government. Perfect for reports or research.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Sioux (Lakota) Nation Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 524 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Sioux (Lakota) Nation Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 524 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Sioux (Lakota) Nation Printable Scavenger Hunt

Description: This scavenger hunt includes a reading passage and ten questions.

Type: Scavenger hunts

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Buffalo Hunters Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Buffalo Hunters Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5

CC Standards:

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

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