SOURCES Framework - Lewis and Clark Expedition

Waring, S. M., & Scheiner-Fisher, C. (2014). Using SOURCES to allow digital natives
to explore the Lewis and Clark expedition. Middle School Journal, 45(4), 3-12.

“What was it like for Lewis and Clark to travel west?”

Scrutinize the Fundamental Source

• Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, June 20, 1803, Instructions

               - Primary Source Analysis Tool

Organize Thoughts and Understand the Context

• “What was it like for Lewis and Clark to travel west?”
  
  
• Video of Gerard Gawalt, American History specialist, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

               - Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of
                  America website
               - Discovering Lewis and Clark website

Read Between the Lines

• Revisit Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, June 20, 1803, Instructions

Corroborate and Refute

• Lewis and Clark Expedition website
• “For Students” section of the Library of Congress’s Themed Resource set for the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Fill up the Canvas website
  
  

      Popular Sources

• A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America (1802)
• Excerpts from Captain Lewis’ Journal
• Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Establish a Plausible Narrative

• Construct their own illustrated journal as members of the Corps, Prezi, Weebly, etc.

Summarize Final Thoughts

Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, June 20, 1803. Page 1. Letter press copy of manuscript letter [instructions for the Corps of Discovery] Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (57)