Activity 1: Narrate the Story
- After reading or listening to the story, narrate the story events aloud using your own words.
Activity 2: Color the Story
- Click the crayon above, and complete page 32 of 'History Coloring Pages for First Grade.'
Activity 3: Map the Story
- Zoom in and study the map below. It plots out the path that Lewis and Clark took.
- Find 'Camp Wood', near St. Louis.
- Using your mouse cursor or finger, trace the path Louis and Clark took to 'Fort Clatsop.' Recite aloud the names of the forts and cities as you pass through them.
- Find where the path crossed the Columbia River. The picture in the next activity shows the expedition encountering a group of American Indians on the Columbia River.
- Find where you live on the map. Do you live anywhere near the expedition path?
Activity 4: Study the Story Picture
In the picture below, Louis and Clark encounter a group of Columbia River Indians. The Columbia River Indians are advancing in decorated dugout canoes on the group. Louis and Clark's Indian guide, Sacagawea, holds her hands out and talks to the Indians, hoping to keep the peace.
Study the picture, and find the following:
- American Indians
- Men on an Expedition
- Columbia River
- Clark (The red-haired man standing in the canoe and holding a gun.)
- Sacagawea (Louis and Clark's female Indian guide)
- Indian Dugout Canoes
- Expedition Canoes
- Paddles
- Animal Head - Canoe Decorations
- Animal Head - Head Covering
- Pine Trees
- Cliffs