Science of Lewis and Clark

Research a new plant or animal as identified by the Corps of Discovery. Create a class book about them complete with illustrations and details.

Lewis and Clark kept journals of their trip. Read the following Journal entries and find all of the grammar and spelling errors that they made. Some of the phrases we might find odd today are really the way they spoke in that time period and not errors. They were very capable explorers but might not have gotten good grades if they had been in your class!!

Create a fun cookbook using foods the Corps of Discovery would have found on their trip. Do research to identify possible ingredients, cooking methods, flavorings, etc. available to them. Consider Bison Burgers, Mountain Sheep Salad, Camas Soufflé . . .

Sort pictures of the new species that Lewis and Clark found on their journey. Sort them into plants and animals. Count how many they discovered.

Measure Lewis and Clark's journey using a map, a ruler, and the map's scale to determine how far they traveled. Be aware that Lewis and Clark split up for a part of the trip so you will need to calculate each of their distances separately.

Organize a school effort to walk the distance of Lewis and Clark's journey. Add together each students' walking distance that they accomplish over lunch periods.

Examples of patterns could include that all animals need food in order to live and grow, and the different kinds of food needed by different types of animals. Animals obtain their food from plants or from other animals.

Living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need. Humans use natural resources for everything they do.

Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see, hear, grasp objects, protect themselves, move from place to place, and seek and take in food.

There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land. The emphasis is on the diversity of living things in each of a variety of different habitats.

Maps show where things are located. One can map the land and water in any area.

Many characteristics of organisms are inherited from their parents. Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information.

Climate describes a range of an area's typical weather conditions.

Animals have various body systems with specific functions for sustaining life: skeletal, circulatory, respiratory, muscular, digestive, etc.

Local, regional, and global patterns of rock formations reveal changes over time due to earth forces. Examples of evidence from patterns could include a canyon with different rock layers in the walls and a river in the bottom, indicating that over time a river through rock.

The locations of mountain ranges, ocean trenches, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns. Major mountain chains form inside continents or near their edges. Maps can help locate the different land and water feature areas of Earth. Maps can include the locations of mountains, continental boundaries, volcanoes, and earthquakes.

Organisms are related in food webs in which some animals eat plants for food and other animals eat the animals that eat plants. Organisms can survive only in environments in which their particular needs are met. A healthy ecosystem is one in which multiple species of different types are each able to meet their needs in a relatively stable web of life.

Examples of evidence could include needs and characteristics of the animals and habitats involved. The organisms and their habitat make up a system in which the parts depend on each other.

Earth's major systems are the geosphere (solid and molten rock, soil, and sediments), the hydrosphere (water and ice), the atmosphere (air), and the biosphere (living things, including humans). These systems interact in multiple ways to affect Earth's surface materials and processes.

Examples include oceans, lakes, rivers, glaciers, and polar ice caps. Nearly all of Earth's available water is in the ocean. Most freshwater is in glaciers or underground; only a tiny fraction is in streams, lakes, wetlands, and the atmosphere.

In multicellular animals, the body is a system of multiple interacting subsystems. These subsystems work together to form tissues and organs that are specialized for particular body functions.

Organisms and populations are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living things and with nonliving factors. In any ecosystem, organisms and populations with similar requirements for food, water, oxygen, or other resources may compete with each other for limited resources, access to which consequently constrains their growth and reproduction.

Predatory interactions may reduce the number of organisms. Although the species involved in competitive, predatory, and mutually beneficial interactions vary across ecosystems, the patterns of interactions of organisms with their environments are shared.

Food webs are models that demonstrate how matter and energy is transferred between producers, consumers, and decomposers as the three groups interact within an ecosystem.

Anatomical similarities and differences between various organisms enable the classification of living things.

Scientific genus and species level names indicate a degree of relationship.