Kimberly Middle School
Kimberly, Idaho

Across the Continent:
The Transportation of Lewis and Clark
and the Corps of Discovery

Eighth grade students at Kimberly Middle School in Kimberly, Idaho, with the assistance of the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory have created this web site on the vessels of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

The project is broken into three themes: Yesterday on the Missouri River, Today in Social Studies, and Plans for Tomorrow.

Through Internet journal analyses, group projects, and hands-on building, students at KMS have followed the order given by President Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark nearly 200 years ago: "Learn All You Can."

The Web site has been created and executed with the following Idaho State Standard for Social Studies in mind:

• *Students will understand the role of exploration and expansion in the development of the United States.

• Content Benchmark #1--Describe the United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861.

• Content Benchmark #2--Know the factors that contributed to western expansion in the United States.

Yesterday on the Missouri River

From the Journals of Lewis and Clark:

• From St. Louis to Fort Mandan (May 1804 - February 1805)

• Fort Mandan to the Great Falls (March - July 1805)

• The Great Portage (July 1805)

Today in Social Studies (Hands-on Projects)

• The Keelboat

• The Missouri River Dugout

• The Columbia River Dugout

• The Experiment

• The Vessels

Plans for Tomorrow

• Build Your Own Dugout

This document's URL is: © 2001 Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Date of Last Update: 2/25/2002 Email Webmaster Tel. 503.275.9500