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Our very favorite activity was to make some homemade fruit leather. We learned in our readings a bit about the foods that Lewis and Clark ate on their expedition across the country. It was interesting to learn how they stored food and what they ate. They traded a lot with the Indians as they met different tribes. This Lewis and Clark study is pages in length and is broken down into 9 chapters which cover the following….

Most of the supplies needed for the above activities are easy to find items that you typically have around the house, but some of the supplies are things that would need to be purchased. With 21 activities and most chapters having multiple activities you certainly do not have to do each and every activity to make the study complete. In fact our family only completed a handful of them.


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A few of the activities were a bit more time consuming than I desired such as making our own moccasins. Included at the front of the book are 2 timelines , one being from the birth to death of both Lewis and Clark and one being about the expedition.

Also included is a preface about the Louisiana Purchase and a map of the expedition. The back of the book has a glossary of terms used in the study and a listing of Lewis and Clark sites around the United States that you can visit as well as organizations and events that revolve around Lewis and Clark.

Other For Kids unit study titles include: Titles are written by various authors. The Unsell family is in their 10th year of homeschooling and are a bit eclectic in their approach to schooling with a focus on unit studies and living books. I, Jen, am wife to Bryan of almost 18 years and mom to 6 precious children ages 14, 13, 11, 9, 7, and 5. Our family has been homeschooling for 10 years now. We tend to be very eclectic in a relaxed approach to learning with Unit Studies, some CM, and a whole lot of reading thrown into the works.

We prefer to read what Charlotte Mason referred to as living books.

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We collect children's picture books and our current home library contains a little over of them. You can find our family blog at Adventures in Unsell Land. We used the American Revolution study a couple of years ago and it was wonderful. Your email address will not be published.


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Facebook Instagram Pinterest Twitter. Chapter 1 — Covers Activities include learning about Latitude and Longitude and making Vermillion homemade face paint. The pictures are included to help you plan.

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Also look down at coloring pages for front covers. The study of Lewis and Clark can have so many topics. There were so many animals and plants we wanted to explore them with our co-op setting. So if you do this topic with a co-op, the animals and plants really lend themselves nice to a group setting. If not, you can simply add a flap to this lapbook and add in the Louisiana Purchase on this page and the animals and plants on the Westward Ho page. The Sierra Club does a beautiful job on Lewis and Clark.

They have keeping it will, then and now, on the trail and the photos of the animals are just beautiful.

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In addition there is a 50 page pdf download that you could almost just use by itself as a study guide. Many of the facts on the animals from the Westward Ho lapbook came from this reference. Bingo Game — very nice bingo game with pictures of animals, plants and landmarks. Crayola Even though this page on the journey westward is a coloring page, we have used it for a notebook page.