NGSS Cross Cutting Science Concepts: Patterns    Cause and effect: Mechanism and explanation   Scale, proportion, and quantity     Systems and system models   Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation     Structure and function    Stability and change

These activities include Chicago-specific topics as well as applications of the concepts that students can relate to any place—particularly Chicago.

Transportation

Ecology

Technology

Chicago Transportation Timeline 1800-1932

Chicago River

Invention Timeline

Chicago Transportation Changes: Organize an Extended Response based on the Transportation Timeline

Frog's View of Changes

The Technology Trip
A reading

Transportation Changes nonfiction reading

Science Writers: How an Ecosystem Works

TECHNOLOGY: A School-Museum Connector

Chicago Transportation Change Example exhibit organizer

Sample lesson plan Science/Literacy Learning Week Example
Topic: Ecosystem Big Question--how and why do ecosystems vary?

Technology

Exhibit Organizer--Transportation

Prairie Ecology nonfiction reading
Prairie Ecology Unit

Physics and Technology Terms
Technology Vocabulary Grades K-8 English/Spanish

Chicago Then and Now COMMUNICATION
TRANSPORTATION...
Use a Venn diagram to contrast past and present.

Aquatic Science Connections exhibit planner

TECHNOLOGY POETRY Topic: Sample Machines Words machine
The First Flyers
A reading		 Chicago Physical Environment Timeline 1800-1932 Change Leads to Change-Innovation Effects
Chicago Changes
Nonfiction reading		 Chicago Workers Use Science--Make a Career-Connected Science Guide

Early Chicago
Nonfiction reading
Chicago Workers Use Science--Make a Career-Connected Science Guide  

Landfill
Nonfiction reading
   

Reversing the River
Nonfiction reading

My Father's Miracle
Fiction reading

    Chicago Changes
Nonfiction reading
    Chicago Workers Use Science--Make a Career-Connected Science Guide

For Chicago Science Data, go to Math

Students at Chicago Academy Analyze the Development of Solar Inventions:

What is important to know about SOLAR ENERGY?