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Our Distance Education project gives all students, regardless of the resources of their local school district and without the burden of travel costs, access to a high quality educational experience through on-line activities and electronic field trips via videoconference. 

 
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Our Distance Education project gives all students, regardless of the resources of their local school district and without the burden of travel costs, access to a high quality educational experience through on-line activities and electronic field trips via video conference. 

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We offer a unique inter-curricular learning experience that provides teachers with lesson plans and web-based interactive learning modules, using inquiry-based critical thinking and problem solving skills.  This award-winning project is correlated with Oregon Curriculum Standards, Learning Benchmarks, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) goals.  The interactive learning exposes students to the cumulative nature of scientific inquiry and inspires student-directed independent learning. Students learn about the subjectivity of interpreting history and see how science can be a tool to understand it, thus providing a bridge between humanity and science disciplines.

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Take Careful Observations

Activity Details: Grades 6-10
Content Areas - Social Studies, Math, Science
 
Take Careful Observations Interactive Lesson

Explore navigational tools and techniques of Lewis and Clark, and try to determine their latitude using those instruments and techniques. Compare latitude calculations made by the explorers with actual locations known today and analyze the discrepancies. This activity uses Flash technology to actively involve learners.

Teacher Lesson Plan >    Interactive Activity: Take Careful Observations >
 

Pass Over to the Columbia

Activity Details: Grades 6-10
Content Areas - Social Studies, Math, Science
 
Pass Over to the Columbia Interactive Lesson

Make mathematical calculations like Lewis and Clark did on their expedition. Explore river current velocity, distance, and direction of travel. Each successful calculation moves you closer to the Pacific Ocean. This activity uses Flash technology to actively involve learners.    

Teacher Lesson Plan >    Interactive Activity: Pass Over to the Columbia >
 

Lewis and Clark Medical Challenges WebQuest

Activity Details: Grades 9-12
Content Areas -Health, Social Studies, Science
 
Lewis and Clark Interactive Lesson

Explore the diseases, injuries and treatments faced by men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition during their 29-month journey through the wilderness; diagnose and plan a treatment based on medical technology of the time; finally compare the medical practices of Lewis and Clark to “modern medicine.” In this WebQuest activity, students work in cooperative groups using the Problem-Based Learning model.

Interactive Activity: Lewis and Clark Medical Challenge WebQuest >
 

Acquire What Knowledge You Can WebQuest

Activity Details: Grades 9-12
Content Areas - Social Studies, Science
 
Acquire What Knowlege You Can Interactive Lesson

In this WebQuest, students in grades 9-12 investigate scientific inquiry on the Lewis and Clark expedition, by examining their roles as ethnographers, linguists, and paleontologists.

Interactive Activity: Acquire What Knowledge You Can >

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