A design team composed of Chicago Public Schools and museum educators worked together to develop instructional units that integrate museums' resources with the Chicago Academic Standards and Curriculum Framework Statements. The inclusion of multiple learning styles, teacher-friendly learning strategies, critical-thinking skills, student-centered and interactive activities are some of the features that enhance the uniqueness of the MAPS curriculum.

	Grade	Curriculum	Museums
	2nd	Force and Motion: Simple Machines	Chicago Children's Museum
	3rd	Chicago: Urbs in Horto (City in a Garden)	Chicago Historical Society Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
	4th	On the Move	The Art Institute of Chicago John G. Shedd Aquarium
	6th	From Generation to Generation	Museum of Science and Industry Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

	Grade	Curriculum	Museums
	3rd	Swamps to Skyscrapers	Chicago Historical Society Museum of Science and Industry
		Crossroads of a Nation: Modes of Transportation	Chicago Historical Society Museum of Science and Industry
	4th	On the Move	The Art Institute of Chicago John G. Shedd Aquarium
		The Art of Survival	The Art Institute of Chicago John G. Shedd Aquarium
	5th	Driving Forces Shaping Chicago: Chicago Waterways	The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
		Driving Forces Shaping Chicago: DuSable's Impact on Chicago	DuSable Museum of African American History
	6th	Eyes on the Skies	The Field Museum Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
		Tools for Change	The Field Museum Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum