Final Copies of Louisiana Purchase and The Lewis and Clark Expedition
These maps represent several hours of focus on details with the map text. Next week the kids will use the scoring rubric we created from the criteria list to check their work. To be useful maps need specific and particular information.
We discussed and dissected these maps to gain understanding of all the parts needed. They know the rivers, places, and time for the story of these maps and how each supports the written material that we are studying.
The kids learn to draw 'freehand' and gain confidence in understanding how to scale and create an accurate picture of the historical information. We looked at the maps of Lewis and Clark from the journals too. The amount of detail really 'wowed' them.