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.
Documents
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Descriptions
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Rubric
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Independent Reading Rubric sample for
the Lewis & Clark Tapestry |
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Humanities-rich
Resources
Links for
student use:
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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
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Teacher Inquiry
Kiosk
Web Sites
that helped me gain a deeper knowledge of the content but are not
necessarily suited to students:
Our
Documents
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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. |
