Cross Cutting History Concepts Developed by the Chicago History Museum:
Challenge Choice Change Causes and Effects Context Continuity Identity Relationships Values
“History…'must be a manual'…to avoid repeating ’the mistakes of the past'…while building…'a roadway toward a better world.'” Eulogy for Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, June 26, 2015, by Barack Obama, cited in New York Times article, “A Eulogy that Found its Place in History” by Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, July 4, 2015.
Items are listed in more than one category because the concepts students learn are like windows—they frame a situation.
You can look at the same situation through different windows.
Settlement |
Community |
Leaders and Legacies |
Transportation |
Comprehensive |
Chicago's Future |
Chicago Legacy: DuSable's Choices and Changes Grades 7 and 8 |
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Week Plan Example Content and Literacy Social Studies Topic Settlement |
Transportation Workers nonfiction reading |
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Grade 3 Nonfiction_Chicago Changes_Chicago Settlement Reading |
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Chicago Transportation Changes: Organize an Extended Response based on the Transportation Timeline |
Cities as Centers of US History Click here to download the complete unit |
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Chicago Changes |
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Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech | My View--Chicago's Future, My Future! |