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Seminar: A Survey of Contemplative Practices Across the World's Religions


How Does One Achieve the Good Life?

Colleen Lawson-Thornton 2017
Keywords: Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, close reading, collaborative learning, contemplative practices, Cornell notes, Daoism, discussion board, Eastern philosophy, Eastern religion, Eightfold Path, experiential learning, Four Noble Truths, Good Life, happiness, Hinduism, Meditation, philosophy, tai chi, Tao of Pooh, Tao Te Ching, Upanishads, walking meditation, yoga, zine

Investigating Religious and Cultural Spending Trends

Catherine Michini 2017
Keywords: cross, Culture, Social and cross-cultural skills, social studies, World religions

Be the Hero of Your Journey

Terry Anne Wildman 2017
Keywords: Creative Writing, History, Literature

Seminar: Aliens and Others: African Americans [Re]Writing Generic Fiction


(re)viewing bodies: The Walking Dead and Social Constructions in a Post-Apocalyptic Society

Tara Ann Carter 2015
Keywords: “The Comet”, African American History, language arts, Literature, Reading, Social Construction, The Walking Dead, W.E.B. Du Bois, writing

Un-Zombied and Magically Black: A Kaleidoscope of the African-American’s Supernatural World

Wendi Mungai Umoren 2015
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism

“All of the Same Family”: The Fictional Science that Created America

Benjamin Hover 2015
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism

Seminar: Biography as History, or, Perhaps, History as Biography


Have You Ever Told That Story Before? Student Biographers Asking Important Life Questions, Preserving Memories and Writing History

Joyce Arnosky 2016
Keywords: biography, elementary, language arts, social studies, writing

“Men of Bronze”: Reflecting on Legacy of the Hellfighters of Harlem

Tara Ann Carter 2016
Keywords: African Americans, comic books, English, graphic novels, Harlem Hellfighters, History, Max Brooks, Military History, New York, primary source documents, Secondary Source Documents, Sociology, soldiers, The Great Migration, World War I, Writing Workshop

Finding Freedom—Heroes of the Underground Railroad

Lynn Gourinski Fahr 2016
Keywords: Harriet Tubman, James Still, Thomas Garrett, Underground Railroad

Are They REALLY That Different?

Nicole Flores 2016
Keywords: Compare, elementary, English, Fifth-Grade, Literature, poetry, social studies

The Philadelphia Wax Museum: Exploring the History of a City Through Different Points of View

Tia D. Larese 2016
Keywords: biography, elementary, History, Philadelphia, revolutionary war, social studies, wax museum

Are You Destined for Mathematical Greatness?

Catherine Michini 2016
Keywords: Alumni Legacy, biographies, Biographies of Alumni in STEM Careers, biography, Gender Bias, High School, Interview Skills, interviewing, Interviewing an Honor Math Student, Journalism, Learning from Peers, Math, Science, Self-Reflection Questions, STEM Careers, Women in STEM Careers

Seminar: Children’s Environmental Health


Equipping the Canary to be an Agent of Change: Educating Students to be Activists

Alima McKnight 2023
Keywords: ADVOCATE, CHANGE AGENT, lead, lead poisoning

Imagine a Day Without Clean Water: Middle School English Language Learners Advocate for Clean Water for All

Sondra Gonzalez 2023
Keywords: clean water, English language learners, lead, water contaminants, water scarcity, water treatment plant

Student Voice: Asthma in OUR World

Amelia Butler 2023
Keywords: asthma, asthma attack, asthma triggers, breathing, chronic, environment, environmental, inhaler, irritants, Respiration, symptoms, triggers, wheezing

Compounded Environmental Injustice requires Compounded Solutions

Theresa Eck 2023
Keywords: action learning, advocacy, asthma, civic action, civics, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, local government, pollution

A Healthy Me is a Better Me

Marie P. Clarke 2023
Keywords: airways, allergy, asthma, pollution, respiratory, triggers, wheezing asthma attack

Exposure: Lead in Philadelphia

Chloe Glynn 2023
Keywords: children’s health, environmental hazards, environmental justice, exposure model of disease, industrial disease, lead, Philadelphia history

Seminar: Cinema and Civil Rights


How Can We Expect Them to Stand Up in a Crooked Room?

Regina Hastings 2020
Keywords: cinema, communications, film, Media, Pop culture, Reading, Sociology, writing

Seminar: Electronics from Toys to Tools: An Adventure for Future Engineers


Hey! Who Turned Out the Lights? Electricity in Series and Parallel Circuits

Sharon Mastrobuoni 2015
Keywords: conductors, electrical circuit, electricity, insulators, Parallel Circuit, Physical Science, resistance, Series Circuit