A Fifth Grade Expedition
The Journey of Lewis and Clark
Standards Tapestry Toolkit Components

Instructional Focus

Students will examine original documents and transcripts relating to the Lewis & Clark expedition. The focus will be on the changing relationship with Native American Nations and settlers, early American trade and business, art, geography, exploration and survival techniques of early Americans. Students will proofread the text and write grammatical corrections on lined paper and role play key characters.

Standards Tapestry

Fourteen of the 5th grade Indiana academic standards for Social Studies, Language Arts and Fine Arts have been selected for inclusion in this unit. Students learning with regard to these standards will be the focus of assessment. Included below are two documents for reference and download.

Standards: This web page includes a complete listing of standards that are relevant to this toolkit.  

Standards Tapestry Graphic:  The graphic below is available for download as an Inspiration file. [Inspiration document]

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Assessment Rationale

The table below shows that most of the standards of focus will be assessed.  Links to the assessment rationale and to assessment instruments are provided below.

Humanities-rich Resources

Links for student use:

Instructional Plan

The activities for this toolkit will cover a 3-4 weeks or 15-20 instructional days.  The instructional plan is divided into days and activities for each day.  The extended instructional plan is available for download here:

Tapestry Document           Lewis & Clark, A Fifth Grade Expedition

Teacher Inquiry Kiosk

Web Sites that helped me gain a deeper knowledge of the content but are not necessarily suited to students:

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Scholarly Perspective

The scholarly perspective provides a “knowledge in use” or “knowledge generation” viewpoint beyond that present in most classroom texts.