Lesson 2: Louisiana Purchase/Lewis & Clark Expedition
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to explain the motivations for the Louisiana Purchase, identify the key figures involved in the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and analyze the expedition's impact on American expansion and scientific discovery.
Why did the United States view the purchase of New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory as vital to its growth and security?
What challenges did the Lewis and Clark Expedition face while exploring unknown territories, and how did Native Americans, like Sacagawea, influence their success?
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sacagawea
Integrate visual information with other information in print and digital texts
The webquest and gallery walk will engage students to investigate the political and physical expansion of the United States, through primary sources, including journal entries and visual artifacts.
Provide a vocabulary bank for the webquest and use the gallery walk images to provide visual context for the more complex historical concepts.
The analysis of the Meriwether Lewis journal entry and the creation of captions for historical images in the Gallery Walk Capture Sheet