It’s Friday, and time for a Virtual Field Trip!
Age Range: 8-18 (Grades 3-12, with parental supervision)
With this website, explore the Northwest Gallery of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress to discover maps, notes, manuscripts, and more from the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Begin your tour by selecting the “enter tour” link on the first slide. Watch the slide show introduction then the tour begins. In each slide, select an image in the timeline to enlarge. Read through the text then click on the image to get a larger view. Select “Go Back” at the bottom of the slide to return to the timeline. Some images will open a new window with a presentation on the Library of Congress website. Simply close the window to return to the virtual tour. Select “Continue Tour” to move along. Sections of the timeline include:
- Prologue
- Before Lewis & Clark
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- Beyond the Allegheny Mountains
- The Spanish Entrada into the Southwest
- Exploration of the Missouri River
- British Passage to the Pacific
- Louisiana Purchase
- Lewis & Clark
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- Discovering Diplomacy
- Geography
- Animals
- Dressed in Courage
- Plants
- After Lewis & Clark
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- The Journeys of Zebulon Montgomery PikeLong’s Expedition to the Central and Southern Plains
- The Fur Trade
- Wilkes and Frémont Expeditions
- Boundary Surveys
- Epilogue-Transcontinental Railroad Surveys
If you prefer not to use the interactive tour, visit the Rivers, Edens, Empires webpage on the Library of Congress site using the link under the interactive tour window.
Not only is this an interesting tour of the artifacts in the museum, but a wonderful addition to your westward expansion studies.
I hope you enjoyed this Homeschool Resource Homeschool Buyers Co-Op and that if you do visit it that you will come back and let Charlie and I know what you thought of it.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
