Written by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Photographs by William Muñoz
I used this informational book on Earth Day 2011. We read aloud about the travels of Lewis and Clark on their Western Expedition, a two year journey starting in 1804. When the western land was purchased, the two men were hired to explore the land and report how people would be able to live. They left by boat and learned how to make canoes from the Native Americans they encountered on the way. They studied plant growth to see if people could live and build off the land. They brought their hand drawn pictures and plant samples back to Thomas Jefferson. Their plant discoveries are written in a timeline on the last pages of the book. As an ending activity to the story, the class planted their own wildflowers.
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