Materials for Teachers

Boomer! Scavenger Hunt. Please click here for a Scavenger Hunt for the Boomer! exhibit. Completing the Scavenger Hunt can enrich your tour of the exhibit and challenge you to find all the important themes and details from Boomer! An answer key is included.

David Thompson Teacher Resource Packet

The Resource Packet complements the Mapmaker’s Eye exhibit which commemorates the bicentennial of fur agent and cartographer David Thompson’s explorations in the Northwest between 1807 and 1812. The exhibit will be at Clark County Historical Museum for a limited engagement through June 6. Thompson, the counterpart of America’s Lewis and Clark, was an English-Canadian fur trader who worked for the Hudson Bay Company in Manitoba, Canada, before joining its competitor, the Northwest Company. Thompson was the first European to navigate the full length of the Columbia River. The maps he made of the Columbia River basin east of the Cascade Mountains were of such high quality and detail that they were used well into the mid-20th century.

The 12 lesson plans in this packet, published by the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, were designed by teachers that attended a 2005 summer institute, Traveling in the Footsteps of David Thompson. Please click here to view/download the resource packet. (See p. 2 of the Packet for a list of lessons by title.)

Materials from 2007 Summer Workshop for Teachers

The Clark County Historical Museum’s summer workshop provided participating teachers the opportunity to spend time with archaeologists and other experts, examine artifacts, learn more about local history and classroom applications, as well as find out what is really inside a museum.

Workshop activities facilitated teachers’ preparation of engaging social studies materials and activities for use in their classrooms and in meeting the state’s Classroom-Based Assessment (CBA) requirements. Districts will be required to report CBA results to OSPI by school year 2008-2009.

Grant funding for the summer workshop was generously provided by Clark County’s 2007 Historical Promotion Grants program. A total of 15 teachers from throughout Clark County’s school Districts were selected competitively and participated in five days of workshops.

Under state law, OSPI is expecting one CBA to be performed at every grade level (3-12) every year. The exact format and information to be reported has not yet been decided. CBAs, essentially, take the place of a Social Studies “WASL.” CBAs on the OSPI website were developed by Washington teachers. OSPI’s website for CBAs includes directions and rubrics, sample graphic organizers, and scored sample papers: http://www.k12.wa.us/assessment/WASL/socialstudies/default.aspx

It might be noted that most of the curriculum units created by the museum’s workshop participants tap into the state’s “Dig Deep: Analyze Artifacts & Sources” CBA for history at the elementary level and for history and geography at middle and high school levels.
Funding for this program provided by Clark County's 2007 Historical Promotion Grants (HPG) program.

Teacher Participants

2007 Unit Plans

Higher quality digital files are available, call the Museum at 360-993-5679 for details.