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Homeschool Lapbooks – Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning

October 4, 2017 | Leave a Comment
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There is no comparison of homeschool lapbooks to digital enhanced content today, but there may be competition. Bring it. You’re sure to find a homeschool lapbook here at Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus.

When I started homeschooling, I stuck CDs in the computer and I controlled the digital content that my children were watching.

After being introduced to lapbooks, I knew it was a learning tool that could be a contender to digital content now and in the future. I wasn’t wrong.

My affection for lapbooks, however, was not immediate.

At first glance, I assumed it was a learning tool that was opposite of what I thought learning should look like. The lapbooks seemed more like a crafty project and waste of our learning time with all the cutting and coloring.

First, what is a lapbook?

What is a Lapbook

A most basic definition is that it is a group of small books or minibooks, mostly of different shapes and sizes that contain information about the topic the lapbook is on. It is a hands-on tool which can easily take the place of worksheets, tests, and memorization. Created by the student each one will be different. A lapbook can be as creative or not as the child wants it to be.

What is Lapbooking

Sometimes I get asked what is lapbooking. It just means using a lapbook to cover a subject or theme and it means the process that your child goes through to create one. It can take anywhere from a few days to weeks to complete one.

In addition, your child can used ones with prepared minibooks or he can create the minibooks without any assistance.

Homeschool Lapbooks - Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning

How to make a Lapbook With Paper

And creating a lapbook doesn’t have to be in-depth or can be as you want it to be. This is the best thing about lapbooks. Like any hands-on tool, it bends to the needs of the child.

Look at my two videos on how to make a lapbook and what is a lapbook.

Additionally, we do use worksheets in our lapbook occasionally. However, what can make even a worksheet interactive is how it’s folded to put into a lapbook to store it.

Look at my post How to Turn Boring Worksheets into Fun Minibooks – From Boring to Interactive

Lapbook Materials

Moreover, most of the materials for a diy lapbook you already have in your home.

My top 3 favorite supplies are bright colored letter size file folders, clear packaging tape, and glue acid free. These top materials are important if you’re creating lapbooks to last as memory keepers.

Of course, paper matters too the most.

If you’re creating lapbooks and want to do them as inexpensive as possible, then regular paper works fine.

However, if you want your child to keep them to use another year or for memories, you need cardstock. And you want the lightest weight cardstock that you can get. Anything too thick and your child can’t fold the paper minbooks easily.

However, there are SO MANY things your student can add to his lapbook.

My post 75 AWESOME Things to Add to a Lapbook will get you started.

  • 15 Amazing Lapbook Materials to Use Besides Glue and Paper

Ancient Civilization Lapbooks

Next, look at these fun ancient history lapbooks divided by time period. I have many lapbook ideas for history.

I have history lapbooks organized by time period as close as I can get.

  • Ancient Rome
  • Ancient Babylon
  • Ancient Phoenicia
  • Fun Pharaohs and Queens Ancient Egypt Lapbook and Activities
  • Famous Pharaohs and Queens of Egypt.
  • Ancient Assyria
  • Ancient China (ancient civilizations)
  • Free Ancient China Lapbook for Kids Who Love Hands-on History
  • Meso-America Ancient Maya
  • Pirates
  • Indus Valley
  • Ancient Civilization Lapbook covering Sumer, Mesopotamia, The Babylonian & Hammurabi, Minoan and Mycenaean , Ancient Egypt,  Greece, Phoenician, Ancient Greece & Rome Pockets, and Celts
  • Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Ancient Greece
  • 18 Colorful and Free Lapbooks for History Unit Studies

Middle Ages to Renaissance Lapbooks

Also, you’ll love these next lapbooks which are topics we covered from the middle ages to the renaissance and reformation time period.

  • Medieval Japan Unit Study and Lapbook
  • Glassblowing
  • Marco Polo Unit Study and Lapbook
  • More Ideas Free Marco Polo Unit Study, Lapbook, and Hands-on Ideas
  • Renaissance 
  • Vikings Lapbook Unit Study
  • The Best Free Viking Lapbook and Hands-on Ideas

Exploration, Colonization, and Industrialization to Revolution Themed Lapbooks

  • French and Indian War 1754 -1763
  • Iroquois Lapbook
  • Plains Indians. Unit Study & Lapbook
  • French Revolution 1789 – 1799 Lapbook
  • Lewis and Clark Fun Homeschool Lapbook
  • War Between the States Lapbook
  • RMS Titanic Unit Study and Free Lapbook
  • Daniel Boone – North American Explorer
  • Amazing and Free American Revolution Lapbook for Multiple Ages
  • BEST Westward Ho Lapbook!
  • American Revolution Lapbook 1775 – 1783

World Wars to Modern History and Geography Lapbooks

  • World War II Lapbook
  • History of the Texas Cowboy, Cattle Drives, and Chisholm Trail
  • Free American History Lapbook – The Old West Through the Life of Wyatt Earp
  • Free Texas Homeschool Lapbook and Fun Homeschool Unit Study Ideas
  • The FBI Lapbook
  • The Trail of Tears 1820 – 1845 Lapbook
  • South America Lapbook
  • Free Native American Plains Indians Fun Lapbook for Kids (& resources)

3 Best Things About Lapbooks

1. If your child wants a whole to pieces or wants a big picture first look at a topic, he’ll love lapbooks.

I love details, but when I teach I also can overwhelm my sons. A lapbook allows us to add minibooks or facts to remind my kids of the major teaching points I want them to remember.

Homeschool Lapbooks - Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning

Information can be arranged in a lapbook to give a child a quick glimpse of a topic. That’s the point. It can be as general or as detailed as you or your child want it to be.

2. If your child does better with a mastery based approach, lapbooks allow him freedom to master the material that piques his interest.

Another lure of lapbooks is that if you have an independent learner, he doesn’t always want a lot of direction when his curiosity has been piqued.

Lapbooks incite an uncontrollable urge to research and add more information that your child wants to learn. It gives an independent learner freedom to learn what he wants to.

One of the best things about this step is that he has to learn to organize that material so it fits compactly into a minibook or chart. That is a higher level skill.

That technique has been one of the things I’ve liked most about lapbooks.

Our kids amass so much knowledge. But instead of using rote memory to tell it back, they need to learn how to connect it to other topics they know.

Understanding comes from manipulating the information and categorizing it.

Because the books are small, a learner has to manipulate and extract key points. In a setting that seems more fun than work he learns to organize his information.

3. No amount of digital content can rival your child’s own work for a masterpiece that lasts into adulthood.

When my older two sons look back at their learning journey, they haven’t mentioned any learning app, but they do remember the hard work put into their lapbooks.

Homeschool Lapbooks - Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning

Not only is it a learning tool that they used for constant review, but it’s a project worth keeping.

Science and Nature Lapbooks

In addition, I have many lapbook ideas for science and nature lapbooks to help bring your topics to life.

  • Arctic and Inuit Free Lapbook
  • Carnivorous Plants
  • Fall Unit 1 {Pumpkins, Leaves, Corn, & More}
  • Amber – Freezing Gold Lapbook
  • Coral Reef Lapbook
  • Fall Unit Study (Includes Apples, Sir Isaac Newton, Art, and Appleseed)
  • North American Robin Lapbook
  • Peregrine Falcon Unit Study and Lapbook
  • Strawberry Lapbook
  • Oceans Unit Lapbook
  • Rain Forest – Amazon
  • Human Body Lapbook
  • Why Bats are Not Bird Lapbook
  • Historic Trees Lapbook
  • Loads of Toads and Frogs
  • Exploring Space and Astronomy
  • Honey Bees Lapbook for Kids
  • Free Wildflowers Lapbook
  • Above & Below A Pond Lapbook
  • From Egg to Sea Turtle Lapbook
  • Colorful Winter Bird: Northern Cardinal Lapbook 
  • Foraging and Feasting Lapbook
  • Free Arctic Ground Squirrel Lapbook
  • Free Earth Science Lapbook
  • Winter Season Lapbook
  • 7 Super Easy and Free Nature Lapbooks Guaranteed to Beat Boredom
  • Free Amazing Winter Unit Study and Winter Lapbook for Kids
  • Super Seashore Watching and Beach Lapbook
  • 27 Amazing Homeschool Lapbook Ideas for Science
  • Fun Apple Lapbook and Hands-on Unit Study for Multiple Ages

  • 20 Free Homeschool Science Lapbooks to Teach Hands-on
  • Free Printable Strawberries Lapbook and Fun Homeschool Unit Study Ideas
  • Free Titanic Lapbook and Fun Homeschool Unit Study Ideas
  • Ancient Rome Lapbook for Kids and Fun Hands-on Ideas
  • 3 Free and Amazing Amazon Rainforest Lapbooks for Kids
  • Free Toad and Frog Lapbook and Fun Homeschool Unit Study Ideas
  • Free Ocean Lapbook and Fun Homeschool Unit Study Ideas
  • Free Bird Unit Study and Lapbook And Fun Edible Bird Nests
  • How to Turn a Pumpkin Lapbook into a Fun Unit Study
  • The World of Plants: The Educational Value of a Plant Lapbook

3 Worst Things About Lapbooks

I almost stopped doing lapbooks because I fail into traps that most new lapbookers do.

1. Lapbooks can turn crafty project if you allow it to overtake your day.

I admit it. I wasn’t all that much into crafts. I’ve come a long way since I first started using lapbooks.

Now, I realize the value of allowing children creative outlets and try to look past the mess.

If you and your kids love crafts this won’t be a negative for you. For me and my sons, we focused too much on the crafty part of the lapbook instead of the research part of it.

I soon learned that minibooks didn’t have to be all designed by the kids. We could use some premade ones.

2. Lapbooks can be expensive if you choose color pictures and clip art.

If you only use black and white pictures and have your children color them all, you can save some money.

But in the process you may create a lapbook hater if you have kids that don’t really like coloring.

Coloring by younger children for the most part is enjoyable, but as they grow, emphasis needs to be on clip art and pictures that inspire a learner to dig into the information.

Cardstock, printers, and colorful clip art costs money. If you have multiple children, it can cost a bit more.

Although it can get costly, I also remember that we will have a tool that lasts almost a lifetime. And lapbooks can have flips and flaps added to it each year as your child grows.

It costs something to have a portfolio for my children’s work other than a bunch of boring stapled worksheets.

Lapbooks have been worth every penny, nickel, dime, quarter and dollar I spent through the years to have something my children can look back on that they had a hand in creating. What a worthy investment.

3. The prep work can be time consuming.

If coloring is one gripe then right behind that is my gripe for the time it takes to prep the minibooks.

Through the years, I’ve learned a few tips. I don’t have us sit down at one time and do all the minibooks at one time. By doing one or two each day, I can help each child and it doesn’t become too overwhelming to prepare one or two each day.

Also, unless I’m teaching a course in fine motor skills, I’ve learned to cut some of the minibooks on my own time. My kids seemed more impatient than me and having to cut out all the minibooks just seem torture.

Although I still don’t like the prep work, I see the value of having it done before we sit down to work on the lapbook. Emphasis is put on the content instead of cutting.

Now, I will print and cut out some of the minibooks on my time. I kept each of my kids’ books in separate ziploc bags.

By storing each kids’ books in separate ziploc bags each kid can add special things he discovers to his lapbook when he puts it together. One of my sons found a shed snake skin and kept it in his ziploc bag until he put his lapbook together.

Lapbooks are not time wasters but a good use of time. It’s a fun and interactive way for kids to remember information. Whatever digital curriculum comes, it just can’t equal the time each child puts into preparing a lapbook.

A premade book or digital curriculum is no comparison to a handmade interactive tool made by your child.

Homeschool Lapbooks - Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning

The 3 Best and Worst Things About Lapbooks. Lapbooks are not time wasters but worth your time. You'll love the over 30 FREE Lapbooks on this site. Come on over and try one or two.

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World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank

November 5, 2016 | Leave a Comment
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I have some World War II homeschool history resources.

Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

One reason we love homeschool unit studies so much is that when life happens, we can always pick up on unit studies where we left off.

I didn’t mean to wait this long to share the rest of the minibooks for our World War II homeschool history unit study, but after moving again, we just put the lapbook and unit study on hold.

World War II Homeschool History

So today, I’m sharing the last three minibooks, which are the Manhattan Project, vocabulary words with a pocket and a few facts about Anne Frank.

Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks 1 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks 2 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

I created the words flash card style. This means that your child can just memorize the vocabulary and then for self-testing, just fold in half on the dotted line.

Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

There is so much to cover in this topic and Tiny has read more on this topic than any he has done before but I know we have to cut it off because he is almost ready to scoot onto our next topic.

More World War II Activities

  • Free World War II Unit Study Ideas and Fun Lapbook
  • World War II Hands-On History – Make Ration Cakes
  • World War II Hands-On History – Make a Secret Message Deck
  • 8 World War II Historical Fiction Books for Middle School
  • World War II Free Resources For a Middle School Unit Study & Make Victory Garden Soup
  • World War II Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
  • World War II Life During the War & Pearl Harbor Minibook
  • World War II Minibooks Causes & Great Depression
  • World War II: Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links
  • World War II Homeschool History Free Unit Study and Lapbook

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II lapbook and homeschool history unit study.


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World War II Homeschool History: Life During the War & Pearl Harbor Minibook

September 8, 2016 | 1 Comment
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I have World War II homeschool history life during the war and Pearl Harbor.

Making ration cakes wasn’t the only activity we have done to study about the affects of rationing during our World War II homeschool history unit study.

The other thing I did was to use something unique we have in our family to help Tiny understand what his great-grandparents went through during wartime.

Making ration cakes wasn’t the only activity we have done to study about the affects of rationing during our World War II homeschool history unit study. The other thing I did was to use something unique we have in our family to help Tiny understand what his great-grandparents went through during wartime. Grab these free minibooks: Life During the War & Pearl Harbor | Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus.
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Besides, making history relevant is key to making it captivating. So I ask my mom to dig out the couple of World War II ration books from Tiny’s great-grandfather, which has been passed down to her.

After reading them and looking through the old books, Tiny was able to understand better what it meant to ration and to live during that lifetime.

Inspired by looking over a part of our family’s history though that time period, I created two minibooks for Tiny.

One minibook, which is Life During the War gives your child a place to write about life during wartime. The other minibook, which is about Pearl Harbor gives a few quick facts about it.

Both books are also done in cursive as I’m always looking for ways for Tiny to keep his cursive reading skills up and too this is a middle and high school level unit study.

More World War II Unit Study Hands-on Activities

  • Free World War II Unit Study Ideas and Fun Lapbook
  • World War II Hands-On History – Make Ration Cakes
  • World War II Hands-On History – Make a Secret Message Deck
  • 8 World War II Historical Fiction Books for Middle School
  • World War II Free Resources For a Middle School Unit Study & Make Victory Garden Soup
  • World War II Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
  • World War II: Life During the War & Pearl Harbor Minibook
  • World War II: Minibooks Causes & Great Depression
  • World War II Homeschool History: Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links
  • World War II Homeschool History Free Unit Study and Lapbook

The more the world goes digital and tries to tell me that we don’t need to read and write cursive, the more fixated I get on being sure my kids and your kids keep that skill alive. (okay, just had to say).

But back to what I saying, like most all of my minibooks, each book comes with two choices. Use the book premade with a few facts or use the blank book where your child adds his own.

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

World War II lapbook and homeschool history unit study.

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World War II Homeschool History: Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links

August 26, 2016 | 7 Comments
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After we started our World War II homeschool history unit study with a hands-on activity from  Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself, I played a bit of time period music for us both to get the spirit of the 1940s.

Free minibooks for a World War II unit study and lapbook. Grab Staged for War and Quick Facts over @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

The tune is catchy and reminded us of Tiny’s ballroom dance classes, which he really enjoyed. So we started our day with a bounce from that music.

Before I share the free minibooks, Tiny chose and read in one day the book Story of the Second World War and we liked it because it gave a quick overview of facts.

World War II books for a homeschool unit study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

What life was like in the 1930s to 1940s along with World War II are such extensive topics that it could overwhelm a student.

Reading a book like Story of the Second World War gives us facts in a nutshell. From there we can then take trails about what we want to learn in this unit study.

World War II

The other spine we are using and reading through is a high school textbook online which is Digital History.

So the first two minibooks in this lapbook I have for you are Staged for War and Quick Facts.

Remember too, like most all of my minibooks, I have a blank minibook, which allows your student to add in his own research.

In addition, most of the time I offer a minibook with a few facts added. I do this because our lapbooks have always been an enrichment to our homeschool unit studies and time can be limited for your student to research each subject.

For example, on this minibook, Tiny researched for one of the minibooks and the other one he used the premade one with a few facts.

Because this is a high school unit study, I also use the cursive font I have paid for to prepare these minibooks and for this unit study.

My goal with all of my unit studies is to continue to strengthen Tiny’s skills in both reading and writing cursive. So some of the minibooks are in cursive.

This unit study is easy enough to use with a middle school kid too, but still at a higher grade level.

Download below, print, research and have your students write in the minibooks and keep them in a ziploc bag until the end of the unit study and lapbook when we place them on the file folder. I will have a picture for you then.

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

More World War II Hands-on Activities

  • Free World War II Unit Study Ideas and Fun Lapbook
  • World War II Hands-On History – Make Ration Cakes
  • World War II Hands-On History – Make a Secret Message Deck
  • 8 World War II Historical Fiction Books for Middle School
  • World War II Free Resources For a Middle School Unit Study & Make Victory Garden Soup
  • World War II -Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
  • World War II Life During the War & Pearl Harbor Minibook
  • World War II Minibooks Causes & Great Depression
  • World War II Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links
  • World War II Free Unit Study and Lapbook
World War II Homeschool History: Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links
World War II Homeschool History: Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links
World War II Homeschool History: Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links
World War II Homeschool History: Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links
World War II Homeschool History: Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links
World War II Homeschool History: Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links
World War II lapbook and homeschool history unit study.

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22 Free Lewis & Clark Activity Posters (You Don’t Want to Miss These)

June 1, 2016 | 11 Comments
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I love free awesome printables. So when I found these 22 free Lewis & Clark activity posters, I just had to let you know about them.

22 Free Lewis & Clark Activity Posters. You don't want to miss these awesome free downloads to help with a plant study. Grab them at Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Lewis & Clark Free Unit Study

When I shared my Lewis & Clark – Ultimate Guide, I left these printables off below.

It wasn’t because they weren’t awesome, but quite the opposite. We have been so captivated learning with them, I wanted to be sure they didn’t get overlooked.

The printables make for a great plant study because each free download has 3 native plants and 3 invasive plants and are in pencil line drawing.

Books about Lewis and Clark

First, look at these Lewis and Clark books for kids.

15 Lewis and Clark | Sacagawea Exploration Unit Study Resources

Lewis and Clark is one of the most significant periods in American history and you can spend weeks exploring the lands and people west of the Mississippi with these fun books and resources.

How We Crossed The West: The Adventures Of Lewis And Clark

Appealing art and descriptive text bring Lewis and Clark alive for young adventurers. Carefully chosen text from Lewis and Clark's actual journals opens a fascinating window into this country's exciting history.

National Geographic Readers: Sacagawea

Explore one of the most recognized figures in American history with this biography of Sacagawea. Kids will learn about her crucial role in the Lewis and Clark expedition and her influential legacy.  The level 3 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for independent readers.

Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis & Clark

Commissioned in 1803 by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and open up this vast territory, Lewis and Clark felt it was the realization of a lifelong dream. Against the hardships of the wilderness, possible attack by hostile Indians, sudden blizzards and terrifying natural obstacles, these two men led the Corps of Discovery ably and nobly to complete their mission. Their Corps included American Indians from the Sioux, Mandan, Shoshone, Clatsop and Chopunnish tribes. Sacajawea, the only woman on the trip, was a Shoshone woman who contributed invaluable service as interpreter and guide. Daugherty's evocative sepia and black ink illustrations depict individuals of humor, vitality, passion, and strength.

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

From the New York Times bestselling author the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

The Truth About Sacajawea (Lewis & Clark Expedition)

The only book ever written that tells the eyewitness truth about this famous teenage Indian mother who was indispensable to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark: 1805: Volume II

On May 14, 1804, the Corps of Discovery set out from Camp Dubois, Illinois, heading westward under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his Second Lieutenant, William Clark. While Lewis led the group in terms of rank, the two men became de facto equals, giving their names jointly to a journey that would shape the future of the fledgling United States — the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This book presents journal entries taken directly from the expedition.

Sacagawea: American Pathfinder

Describes how Sacagawea found adventure guiding Lewis and Clark to the Oregon coast.

Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark (Third Edition): A Guide to the Trail Today

Take Your Own Journey through History on the Lewis & Clark Trail! Follow the journey of the Corps of Discovery from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello through the Midwest and the Rockies, to the Pacific Ocean and back with this detailed chronicle of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. This third edition of the classic guidebook features accessible text that combines the historical sites and color maps that merge the past and present in a user-friendly and entertaining way.

What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the "Corp of Discovery" left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 1, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Louisiana Purchase. The travelers hoped to find a waterway that crossed the western half of the United States. They didn't. However, young readers will love this true-life adventure tale of the two-year journey that finally brought the explorers to the Pacific Ocean.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition (Graphic History)

In this epic graphic novel, follow the dramatic story of  the Lewis and Clark expedition. In 1804, these two explorers, along with their "Corps of Discovery," traversed the unmapped American West, leading to scientific discoveries, interactions with Native nations, and route to the Pacific Ocean. Dramatic illustrations and fast-paced text provide a "you-are-there" experience. With extensive back matter, including a bibliography, extended reading list, glossary, and further Internet sources, young readers will gobble up this action-packed comic book about one of history's most compelling moments.

The Oregon Trail: The Journey Across the Country From Lewis and Clark to the Transcontinental Railroad With 25 Projects

In The Oregon Trail: The Journey Across the Country from Lewis and Clark to the Transcontinental Railroad, readers ages 9 to 12 can delve into the explorations of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and other explorers. They can learn about the more than half a million people who followed during the nineteenth century. What challenges did these pioneers face on the 2,170-mile journey? How were Native American tribes and nations affected by this mass migration? Primary sources allow readers to feel like a part of the Oregon Trail experience while biographical sidebars will introduce the compelling people who were part of this time in U.S. history. Investigative, hands-on projects and critical thinking activities such as writing a treaty and researching artistic impressions of the Oregon Trail invite readers to further their understanding of life on the trail, early towns and forts, and the Transcontinental Railroad that followed the wagons into new lands and territories that would eventually become states.

Seaman's Journal

A trade paperback edition of the award-winning tale of the journey of Lewis and Clark. When Seaman, a Newfoundland dog, met his new master in August of 1803, he didn't know that he would spend the next three years on an adventure of more than 8,000 miles to the Pacific Ocean and back. Seaman's Journal is based on actual entries in Meriwether Lewis s journal describing Seaman, and it presents an account of the Lewis and Clark expedition as seen from the viewpoint of Lewis s dog. Join Seaman before the trip as preparations take place. Meet the Native American guides and friends they encountered along the way. And read of Seaman s love for Sacajawea, the Shoshone woman whose husband acted as interpreter and guide. Ages 5-8.

The Lewis & Clark Expedition: Join the Corps of Discovery to Explore Uncharted Territory

Describes the expedition led by Lewis and Clark to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Lewis and Clark for Kids: Their Journey of Discovery with 21 Activities

Following Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s Corps of Discovery as they navigate the muddy Missouri River and begin a great adventure, this activity book is set against the background of the vast North American continent. It takes children from President Jefferson’s vision of an exploratory mission across a continent full of unique plants and animals through their dangerous and challenging journey into the unknown to the expedition’s triumphant return to the frontier town of St. Louis. Twenty-one activities bring to life the Native American tribes they encountered, the plants and animals they discovered, and the camping and navigating techniques they used. A glossary of terms and listings of Lewis and Clark sites, museums, and related websites round out this comprehensive activity book.

It's Her Story Sacajawea A Graphic Novel

Sacajawea was a brilliant, multilingual Shoshone girl who was torn from her home at a young age. In 1804, she set out with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide across hundreds of miles of unmapped land to reach the Pacific Ocean. Almost 200 years later, she became the first Indigenous woman to appear on a US coin. This is her story.

The copyright information says its for educational use only, so be sure you use them like that.

In addition to having a poster about the historic site with a journal entry, they have descriptions on the download.

Beside a historic place download is a game of word scramble to find the plant words in the puzzle.

Did I mention they are such high quality that the kid who loves to color can do so?

Also, I love the fact that the original spellings or should I say misspellings like ‘pirimids’ were incorporated into the lessons.

The misspellings on the site are not a blunder, but rather an integrity to the original form.

22 Awesome Lewis & Clark Plant Study Guides

Each game download gives the description and color of the native plants.

We even researched some of these plants online so we could see a color picture of them although the author’s description and background information is so very helpful.

Here are the printables from Explore Your World With Lewis and Clark.

Scroll to the very bottom of that page to grab each download. Click on the poster for the historic site, then click on the games beside it to grab both downloads on each line.

Lewis and Clark on Bountiful Plains of the Missouri : Games

Lewis and Clark sighted by the Assiniboine Indians : Games

Lewis and Clarks Quandry at Decision Point : Games

Re-discover nature at Rainbow Falls : Games

Lewis and Clark at Gates of the Rocky Mountains : Games

William Clark and his scouts at Two Camp : Games

Lewis and Clarks vista point at Pompeys Pillar : Games

A look back at the Missouri Headwaters : Games

Lewis and Clark Reunion at Camp Fortunate : Games

Lewis and Clark at the Tower Creek Pirimids : Games

Lewis and Clark along the river near Travelers Rest : Games

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