Exploration, Encounter & Trade

Toolkit Texts: Westward Expansion

This teacher resource is a a spiral-bound set of short nonfiction texts and primary sources that may be reproduced for classroom use aligned to Washington State history including:

• Growing Up Native American
• Mr. Jefferson's Expedition
• Westward Bound
• Going west with Lewis and Clark
• Sacagawea: Intrepid Interpreter and Guide
• York: Brave Explorer

Exploring the West: The Amazing Journey of Lewis and Clark

This student resource is a narrative of the Corps of Discovery including many maps, photographs, and artwork illustrating the expedition and the landscape (six copies per teacher).

TrueFlix

• The Lewis and Clark Expedition

FreedomFlix

• The Lewis and Clark Expedition

NewselaPro

• The Explorers: Meriwether Lewis
• The Explorers: William Clark
• Women Leaders: Sacagawea
• Primary Sources: Jefferson's Message on the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Since Time Immemorial

• Exploring the Pacific Northwest Prior to Statehood: Tribal Homelands
• Living in Washington: Celilo Falls
• Being Citizens of Washington: Salmon Recovery and the Boldt Decision

NOTE: Tribal sovereignty content may be logically addressed in EPS units 1, 2, 3 and/or 4 so these resources are listed in all of them.

The Important Thing About Tribal Sovereignty

• A Google Slide "Big Book" about the concept of tribal sovereignty created by EPS staff adapting a resource from OSPI's Since Time Immemorial website.

NOTE: Tribal sovereignty content logically addressed in EPS units 1, 2, 3 and/or 4 so this resource is listed in all of them.

Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Style Inquiry Task Developed by EPS

• Exploring the West: Should Lewis and Clark be the only names we remember from the Corps of Discovery?