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 One of the most interesting "discovery" opportunities we had this year was to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with other classes.  Jennifer Wagner of TechnoSpud.com , created the Shoeless and Bark Internet Project. This project helps make Lewis & Clark's experiences meaningful to children.
 

Shoeless (a beanie cat) and Bark (a beanie dog) are on a quest of discovery. They spent a week in January 2005 finding out about our school, our students, and our community. They started their journey in September, visiting classes in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Texas, Ohio, Missouri, and Arizona.  Now they are off to new discoveries in other classrooms and schools!

 


Shoeless and Bark with our friendly classroom bison.

Here they are with some of the books we read together.  Everyone really enjoyed learning about Seaman, Captain Meriwether Lewis' dog.  Seaman went on the journey too and even saved his master from a grizzly bear attack!

 

Resources

Just a few are listed here.  For a more extensive list, visit the Shoeless and Bark Internet Project mentioned above.

Discovering Lewis and Clark  This comprehensive site has many interactive components.

Enchanted Learning  Map and activity pages

National Geographic – Go West Across America  Interactive game

Great Falls Portage  Lewis had to carry all their equipment around the enormous waterfall, the Great Falls of the Missouri.  It took one month, traveling 18 miles over difficult terrain and through really bad weather.

Lewis and Clark  
From The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the world and the nation's library

Books

North American Explorers by Yannick Oney
Lewis & Clark by Candice Ransom
Lewis & Clark for Kids by Janis Herbert
Lewis & Clark An American Journey by Daniel Thorp
Lewis & Clark Explorers of the American West by Steven Kroll
Seaman's Journal On the Trail with Lewis and Clark by Patricia Reeder Eubank
Growl!  A Book About Bears by Melvin Berger

 

 

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