Lesson 1 - LearningThroughMuseums

● Expansion Activities
• VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT: Have students make an illustrated glossary for urban and
rural. First, they list words that are important to each type of region, such as factory or farm.
Then they draw pictures to show those parts.
• WRITING: Students write poems about the city of Chicago. They can use the Expository
Writing organizer to prepare their poem.
• RESEARCH: Students research Chicago’s past. They will find stories about Chicago in the
past at the Chicago History Museum Web site (http://www.chicagohs.org/).
• SCIENCE: Students can make a technology timeline for cities and farms, listing inventions
that have changed ways of living and working in both places.
• FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: When possible, provide concrete examples of
vocabulary words (pictures or actual examples) and allow them to use drawn images to
represent vocabulary words as well.
• FOR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: Partner or group students, varying performance
and skill level, and collaborate on activities.
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