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McClure, Larry – Northwest Education, 2003
An Oregon high school offered an interdisciplinary history/science course on the Lewis and Clark Expedition that focuses on experiential learning and student projects. Camping and field trips helped make the material relevant as the course moved from a study of the primordial Pacific Northwest, through the Native American period, to what has…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Field Trips, High Schools, History Instruction
Reed, Bracken – Northwest Education, 2003
A Portland (Oregon) middle school teacher teaches an ethnobotany class using plants identified in Lewis and Clark's journals. After months of learning about native plants, Native American culture, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the class culminates in a 3-day canoe trip down the Columbia River. A Lewis and Clark Rediscovery grant provides…
Descriptors: After School Education, American Indian Studies, Field Trips, History Instruction
