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900 Larsen Park Road
Sioux City, IA 51103 United States Get Directions
712-224-5242

Built in 2002, the Sioux City Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center showcases permanent exhibits about the Corps of Discovery’s time in the present-day Sioux City area from late July to early September 1804. The death and burial of Sergeant Charles Floyd on August 20 is at the center of the story. Floyd was the first U.S. soldier to die west of the Mississippi River.

The expedition as a military operation comes to life in exhibits that use interactive devices, including animatronic mannequins, computers, flip books, stamping stations, text-and-graphic panels, lift-and-drop panels, hand-painted murals, a brass-rubbing station, and reproductions of military equipment.

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Event Series Growers’ Academy and Community Garden

Plant Nutrient Deficiencies

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

After completing this lesson, students will be able to recognize that plants, like people, require essential nutrients to be present in the right amounts in order to be healthy; use reference materials to diagnose plant nutrient deficiencies; define fertilizer as a type of "food" for plants; and appreciate that fertilizers are used to replenish nutrients in agricultural soils.

Free
Event Series Growers’ Academy and Community Garden

Plant-Soil Interactions

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

After completing this lesson, students will be able to recognize that plants remove nutrients from the soil; explain the roles of diffusion and active transport in moving nutrients from the soil to the plant; and relate the root and vascular systems of the plant to the human circulatory system.

Free
Event Series Percy’s Pals

Percy’s Pals: Plant & Animal Classification

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

Lewis and Clark made a record of 178 plants and 122 animals previously unknown to European Americans. How did they know what to call things, or whether a plant they saw in early April would eventually have flowers? How did they know if a beaver was more closely related to a squirrel or a cat?...

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Event Series Growers’ Academy and Community Garden

Properties of Soils

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

After this lesson, students will be able to list aspects of soil composition; appreciate that soils are living and dynamic; recognize that soils vary in composition; describe where nutrients in soils come from; recognize that plants take up water and nutrients from the soil; and recognize that growing crops can deplete agricultural soil of nutrients.

Free

Event Series Growers’ Academy and Community Garden

In Search of Essential Nutrients

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

After completing this lesson, students will be able to define an essential element; compare and contrast the essential nutrient requirements of plants and humans; explain why plants cannot use elemental nitrogen found in the atmosphere; and identify the sources for each essential nutrient needed by plants.

Free
Event Series Lewis and Clark Kids’ Club

Lewis and Clark Kids’ Club: Arbor Day Farm

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

We will launch our new Lewis and Clark Kids' Club with a trip to Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, Nebraska, on Saturday, April 20th. Students will receive a tour of Arbor Day Farm (yes, that Arbor Day), receive a short lesson on the importance of bees and pollination, roam and climb in the Arbor...

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Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Sergeant Floyd Tri-State Chapter Spring Meeting

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

The Spring Meeting for the Sergeant Floyd Tri-State Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation will take place on Sunday, April 14, 2024, from 2:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Discovery Gallery (classroom) on the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center side of the building. The meeting will...

Free
Event Series Percy’s Pals

Percy’s Pals: Mapping & Navigation

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

Mapping and navigation are skills which were critical to the survival of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Without the ability to navigate, the explorers would have been hopelessly lost in the hundreds of thousands of acres of western North America - and without the ability to make maps, future settlers would not have been able...

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Event Series Young Historians

Young Historians Club: Pre-Colonial North America

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

This group, designed for high school students, will teach the scientific method of historiography (the analysis and presentation of history) and develop students' understanding of the field of public history. Students will study American History topics but unlike a traditional educational setting, students will not use text books, but instead will read scholarly articles and...

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Siouxland Garden Symposium

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center is playing host to the Siouxland Garden Symposium on March 16 from 9:00am--3:30pm.

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