Classroom Activity #16
The expedition spent their second winter at Fort Clatsop, which today is a national park. The area was a temperate rainforest, lush with green plants, tall trees and many types of birds and animals new to the explorers. It rained constantly. Visit it on the Internet at www.nps.gov/focl

Classroom Activity #17
Since cameras and video had not been invented, Lewis and Clark made sketches in their journals of the new plants, animals, and people they discovered. Copy the student worksheet in the Appendix on page 33 and have your students try to identify some of the sketches that Lewis and Clark recorded in their journals. Have students write a journal for one week, including sketches of unusual things they observe.

Did You Know?
It rained so often and the food supply was so monotonous that the explorers could not wait to leave Fort Clatsop for home. On March 22, 1806 they began their homeward trek, giving their fort to the Indians. By May the explorers had made their way back up the Columbia River into the mountains. They waited with their friends, the Nez Perce for the mountain snows to melt.

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