Welcome aboard mates! Your challenge is two fold.Together as a team, you must design and create a miniature replica of the “iron boat” using materials of the Lewis and Clark time period. It is your mission to figure out why the “iron boat” failed. Set up an advisory team to summit an explanation to the President along with recommended changes for improving it. This explanation may be in the form of a written report to the President or your team may do an oral presentation before the President and Congress. (For all practical purposes this will be a student from your classroom you have selected to play this role and the rest of your classmates). Your first challenge will be to see if you can fix the problem and make the “iron boat” successful.
Your
second challenge
will be to create a new design to submit to The Meriwether Boat
Company. The ownership of this design will solely belong to you
and your team. Do not share your ideas with other “companies”
and make sure you have security so your plans are not stolen before you get
them patented.
Suggested resources to use while completing your task are, but not limited to:
SEARCH ENGINES TO USE:
1. www.Google.com
2. www.Dogpile.com
3. www.Yahoo.com
WEBSITES:
1. www.lewisandclark.org/pages/catalog.htm
2. www.lewisandclark.org/index.htm
3. www.gorp.com/gorp/resources/us_trail lewis+c5.htm
4. www.ndlewisandclark.com/profiles.html
5. www.historychannel.com/classroom/missouri/time.html
6. www.ndonline.com/tribwebpage/features/sakakawea/sakaklc.html
7. www.lewis-clark.org/journal_jun10-1805_more.htm
8. www.pbs.org/lewisandclarkBOAT PLAN SITES:
1. www.bruce-roberts.com
2. www.theboatshop.com
3. www.bateau.com
4. www.homel.gte.net
5. http://sailing.about.com/cs/helpadvise/index.htm?iam
6. http://sailing.about.com/cs/freeplans/index.htm
7. http://paddling.about.com/cs/canoeplans/index.htm?
8. www.youngsaintlouis.com/archive/january200l/history.htmlANIMATION AND CLIP ART SITES:
1. www.4yeo.com
2. www.barrysclipart.com
3. www.animations-galore.com
BOOKS AND ARTICLES LIST:
ARTICLES:
Articles taken from the website:www.lewisandclark.org/pages/catalog.htm
1. “Meriwether Lewis at Harpers Ferry” Nov.
1994, Jeffrey, Joseph
2. “The Rocky Boat Ride of Lewis and Clark”
Feb. 1995, Large, Arlen J.
3. “A Note on the White Pirogue” May 1986,
Moulton, Gary E
4. “Captain Lewis’s Iron Boat: The
Experiment" May 1981, Rose, Donald W.
5. “Lewis’s Iron Boat” August 1997, Phil
Scriver
6. “Lewis and Clark at the Portage Unveiled”
August 1989, Saindon, BobBOOKS:
Going Along With Lewis and Clark by Barbara Fifer $11.95 ISBN 1-56037-151-X p. 22-25. This is a great book that shows how the corps members traveled. Great pictures and diagrams of boats used.
Lewis and Clark Explorers of the American West by Steven Kroll $6.95 ISBN 0-8234-1273-3. This book is very good with illustrations of the use of boats and their struggles with them along the trail. P. 8-10 very good and includes the iron boat or “experiment” as it was referred to.
Lewis and Clark An Illustrated History By Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns $25.00 ISBN 0-375-70652-6. This book has sections of happenings with the different kinds of boats used. It quotes from the journal entries. Good background information for the students.
West to the Pacific The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Ronald Fisher ISBN 0-941734-01-3. This book p. 41 talks about the experiment boat and has other good background info on the expedition.
Lewis and Clark on The Upper Missouri by the Discovery Writers $9.49 ISBN 0-912299-84-3. Page 127 – 129 in this book tells about methods and happenings with making of some of the boats such as where Sergeant Gass constructed dugout canoes. Good background information for the expedition as well.
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