This document provides background information and instructions for participating in a simulated role as a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It outlines details about joining the expedition at Camp Dubois, Illinois and traveling west to meet one's brother in Great Falls, Montana. When the brother does not arrive after two weeks of waiting, the reader is left to make choices about how to survive the journey alone westward along the trail. The document prompts the reader to consider essential supplies, potential hazards, and activities to complete along the way such as mapmaking and journaling.

1. Complied by Bobbi Capwell, ETAS ©2004

2. •You are a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
•You will travel thousands of miles,experience lands,
rivers and peoples that no Americans ever have before.
•You are an experienced woodsman and a productive
hunter.
•Your adventure will start at the winter staging area at
Camp Dubois, Illinois Territory.
•You are to meet your brother in Great Falls.
Meriwether Lewis William Clark

3. Before you go:
Pick 2 activities to do
• Make a list of everything that you will need to take
with you.
• Make sure you have a journal so that you can record
all of the animals, plants or people that you see along
the way.
• Draw a map of the trail you will take. Use KidPix and
draw the map then save it for your PowerPoint
Slideshow
• Draw 3 animals and 1 plant that you will see on the
trail. Use KidPix and then save to your PowerPoint
Slideshow.
• Calculate the miles that you travel every night.

4. You have made it to Great Falls because you are waiting
for your brother to join up with the Corps. You wait 2
weeks but your brother never arrives.

5. While you are waiting for your
brother, watch this video about
the Expedition

6. I will go back to the Expedition. I will stay at the Missouri River
Lewis and Clark gave you directions to Clearwater
River, the next big stop.
You have turned the map around and you are now
North of the Missouri River all by yourself. You
need to make choices about the journey that will
make sure that you survive.
What will you do?

7. You have decided to stay
longer and wait for your
brother a little while longer.
Click on the mountain to see what you need to while
you wait.

8. • Make a map of the area using KidPix
• Write an “How to build a shelter”
document using Microsoft Word
• Draw and write in your journal, so you
can record what you find,eat and do
Take the digital camera and go find
plants that you might have seen and
make a PowerPoint using them.
Pick 2 activities:

9. Things you need to
consider:
• Beware of the animals on the trail-remember
the buffalo that almost trampled you and
your friends as you slept.
• There are many kinds of plants. You can not
tell if they are poisonous
• You can only travel 12-15 miles a day.
• There may be as many as 50 different Indian
tribes that you will encounter-they may be
the only way to make it through this
adventure.

10. • If you take a horse and wagon, then you must
take enough food for him.
• There are no signs to let you know where you are
going.
• There are no hotels or inns.
• Water is essential but it is also heavy to carry.
• What will you eat?
Even more things to consider

11. • Will you need a suitcase
full of clothes?
• Do you need paper?
• Which tools do you need?
• Will you go in a wagon or
on a horse or by foot?
Think about…….

12. Things that you might encounter

13. What did you do to survive?
•Compare your list for the expedition to that of
Lewis and Clark’s list as found on the website you
visited. Use Kidspiration to make a Venn Diagram
to show your results.
•Draw a picture of a plant that you know about
and compare it to one that was on the trail. Draw
it in KidPix,
•Did the trail you take lead you to the Pacific
Ocean? Write the directions for your trail in a
Horse
Papercandles

14. Click on the map and join up with the Expedition
then press the back button to this page..
Now with the knowledge that you have go on
another adventure in The Great
Unknown.

15. Resources Used
• "Lewis and Clark." . 2001. National Geographic. 4/1/2004
<http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/01/lewis_map_4.html>.
• Neiman, David. Lewis and Clark Expedition. 2004. 4/1/2004
<http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/idx_equ.html>.
• Boettcher/Trinklein. "The Trailblazers." . 2003. . 4/2/04
<http://www.trailblazers101.com/lewis1.htm>.
• Lewis and Clark Expedition. By Oliver Henry. Delphi Productions, 1992. United
Learning. 3 May, 2004
<http://www.unitedstreaming.com>
• "Lewis & Clark's Expeditin faces Security." . 2000-2004. National Council on Education.
4/15/2004<http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM314&page=teacher>.