Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Great Chicago Fire Survivors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research the Great Chicago Fire and create a reader's theater presentation that describes the experiences of survivors.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Great Chicago Fire: The O'Leary Hearing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars dramatized the O'Leary hearing regarding the Chicago fire using the transcript from the original hearings as a script.