Midewin Activities for Classrooms

The following activities were developed by the Chicago Academy of Science's Education Department with assistance from Chicago-area school teachers. There is one activity for each grade level in three categories: Language Arts/Fine Arts, Social Studies, and Science/Math. The activities are aligned to Illinois State Academic Standards and include information about bibliographic materials and Internet connections.


Grade 1 - Butterfly Biodiversity
Grade 2 - Prairie Senses
Grade 3 - Alphabet Vocabulary
Grade 4 - Piecing Together Prairies
Grade 5 - Prairie Biome Mobiles
Grade 6 - Vacancy: Habitats Available!
Grade 7 - Prairie Mural Project
Grade 8 - Prairie Memoirs
Grade 9 - Poetry of the Prairie
Grade 10 - Art of Locomotion
Grade 11 - Aerial Photography
Grade 12 - Perceiving the Prairie

Grade 1 - Prairie Plant Investigation
Grade 2 - Where the Buffalo Roam
Grade 3 - Taming Wild Land
Grade 4 - Bye-Bye Bison
Grade 5 - Mapping the Prairie
Grade 6 - Please Help!
Grade 7 - Poisoning the Prairie
Grade 8 - Prairie People
Grade 9 - Building on the Land
Grade 10 - Rosie the Riveter and Mary
the Munitions Worker

Grade 11 - Who's in Charge of this Animal?
Grade 12 - Parallel Timelines

Grade 1 - A Home for a Cricket
Grade 2 - Prairie in a Bottle
Grade 3 - Soil Scrolls
Grade 4 - Ready for Roots
Grade 5 - Prairie Predator and Prey
Grade 6 - Prairie Scales and Prairie Smoothies
Grade 7 - Bug Work
Grade 8 - Fire Fighting
Grade 9 - The Prairie Climate
Grade 10 - Soil Stories
Grade 11 - Prairie Populations
Grade12 - Prairie Adaptations

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