These guides develop common core competence aligned with CCSSR1--

read closely, then make logical inferences that you support with evidence

Connect Art and Texts to Develop Common Core Competence

Use PQROST to Explore a Museum

Make Your Own Museum

My Important Learning English / Spanish

My Pictures Show What I Know

Compare and Contrast History English /  Spanish

Extended Response Based on Content Learning English / Spanish

Get It Together--Write English / Spanish

Idea and Examples

Ideas in View--open page

Learning Reporter

Exhibition Organizer

Assessing Museum-Based Learning

Interpret Objects

Cultural Insights/Cultures In Sight
Objects and Questions - Your Own Museum Labels
Reading Objects
Picture Culture

Story/History Reader  English / Spanish 

Museum-Based Learning Guides for Students

Aquarium Guide

Culture Museum Reader Guide

Museum Learner

Museum of Science and Industry Guide

Technology, Mathematics, and Cultures at the Field Museum

Literacy Activities for Families and Learning Centers

Guides to Connect Classroom and Museum

These guides relate to CCSSR7--integrate and evaluate content presented in various media

SPECIFIC MUSEUM Toolkits for Teachers

These guides relate to CCSSR7--integrate and evaluate content presented in various media and develop common core competence aligned with CCSSR1--read closely, then make logical inferences that you support with evidence

Curriculum Mapper with Museum Connections

Museum Connection Planner--One Museum

Museum Connection Planner--Three Museums

Guiding Question, Resources, and Project Mapper

Theme/Guiding Question and Concept Organizer

Example of a Culture Unit Plan with Museum Field Trip

Technology: A School-Museum Connector

Exhibit/Text to Text/Exhibit

Museum Exhibit Learning

Learning Exhibits

Assessing Museum-Based Learning

Assessment Guide for Museums

Assessment Questions about Museum-Based Learning

Common Core at the Chicago History Museum

Expanding Literacy: Enrich the Curriculum, Connect with the Community  (Chicago Hisory Museum)
Chicago and My Community: Making Connections (Chicago History Museum)
Chicago Connections (Chicago History Museum)
Competency Tools (Chicago History Museum)

Get It, Get It Clear, Get It Together: Focus, Act, Report  (Chicago History Museum)

Contrasting Economies (Field Museum)

Physics of Aquatic Animals and their Environment (Shedd Aquarium)

IB Museum Guide

Museum Field Trip Overview