Chicago's Community Areas and Neighborhoods

The Adler has many resources for teachers to use in the classroom and during their Adler field trips.

This online tool was created to help teachers and other educators find resources at the Art Institute that can be used in the classroom and in planning self-conducted museum tours with their students.

At the CPS Virtual Library, you can access SOAR, our district’s integrated library system, to locate books in your school’s library. You can also find our district’s eBooks and online database resources. You can access recommended websites and other resources.

This collection of links was specifically aligned to the Chicago Public Schools Social Science Content Framework Version 3.0 for grades K-10.

Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.

DocsTeach contains thousands of primary sources — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types — spanning the course of American history. Teachers can copy and modify activities for their students from an ever-expanding collection of document-based activities created by the National Archives, and teachers around the world.

Contains information on identifying primary sources, classroom activities and online sources.

Lincoln Park Zoo educators have developed research-based curriculum materials to help support your visit to the zoo and extend the experience back into the classroom.

Document analysis is the first step in working with primary sources. Teach your students to think through primary source documents for contextual understanding and to extract information to make informed judgments.

Contains K-12 lesson plans and activities on a variety of topics.

An educational resource designed for teachers and students featuring primary sources from the Newberry’s holdings, contextual essays, and discussion questions.

The chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum offers interpretive, inquiry-based, hands-on lessons that align with best practices in science teaching.

Contains field trip activities.

At Home in Chicago is a consortium of more than twenty historic house museums in and around Chicago. At Home in Chicago is a hub of information about the region's house museums, to encourage the exploration of common threads connecting these diverse places, and to promote a broad range of available resources.

Offers various resources to students and teachers who are interested in Frances Willard, and 19th century history and the Progressive Era. These materials are generally for students from elementary school through college.

The Chicago Metro History Fair is a project-based inquiry program that challenges students to become historians by actually doing history. Guided by their teachers, students in grades six through twelve choose their own topics connected to Chicago or Illinois history, and then conduct research, analyze sources, make an argument, and finally produce a project to show their work. Students make websites, performances, documentaries, papers, and exhibitions which are evaluated by community volunteers at annual competitions in the Chicago metro area.

Find photos, primary source documents, maps, timelines, lesson plans, and essays about Hull-House and Jane Addams.