Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: Children’s Environmental Health
Compounded Environmental Injustice requires Compounded Solutions	Theresa Eck	2023
Keywords: action learning, advocacy, asthma, civic action, civics, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, local government, pollution
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
Equipping the Canary to be an Agent of Change: Educating Students to be Activists	Alima McKnight	2023
Keywords: ADVOCATE, CHANGE AGENT, lead, lead poisoning
Exposure: Lead in Philadelphia	Chloe Glynn	2023
Keywords: children’s health, environmental hazards, environmental justice, exposure model of disease, industrial disease, lead, Philadelphia history
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
Hey, hey, ho, ho, Childhood Asthma needs to go!	Jillian Howden	2023
Keywords: asthma, childhood, childhood development, Health, prevention
Seminar: Children’s Literature and the Immigrant Experience
The Power of Food Stories	Anna Herman	2024
Keywords: cuisine, Culture, food culture, food stories, global food, migration, seed stories, supply chain
Seminar: Diverse Children's Literature: Literary Art, Cultural Artifact and Contested Terrain
Children’s Literature and Language: Bilingual Books, Food Stories & Cultural Inquiry	Diane Zimmerman	2025
Keywords: Bilingual classroom strategies, Bilingual education, Bilingual picture books, children’s literature, cultural identity, culturally responsive teaching, Dual language learners, Emotional literacy, ESOL lesson plans, Family recipes Food stories, Inclusive literacy instruction for ELLs., Latinx children's books, multilingual learners, Newcomer students, social-emotional learning, storytelling, translanguaging
Seminar: How Critical Elements Make Up our Modern World
Changing Technology for a Changing Climate: Knowledge is not always power, but power is rarely ignorant	Chloe Glynn	2021
Keywords: climate change, critical minerals, environment, fossil fuels, geopolitics, green technology, greenhouse gases, hands-on experiments, power, renewable energy, social media
The Museum of Gold	Kristin Nakaishi	2021
Keywords: economics, geology, gold, minerals, Sociology
Sustainable? Systemic Dis-illusions?	Maya Bhagat	2021
Keywords: critical metals, rare earth metals, sustainability, systems
Seminar: Introduction to Cognitive Science: Uncovering the Machine in the Mind
Communication, Cognition, and Connection in the Environment	Chloe Glynn	2025
Keywords: Cognitive Science, communication, connection, Ecology, Keywords: Environmental Science, social behavior, social-emotional learning
Using Cognitive Science to Teach & Learn about Healthy Food Choices	Anna Herman	2025
Keywords: Agriculture and Food Systems, Behavioral Economics, Choice Architecture, Community Health, environmental justice, Food & Nutrition, Food Insecurity, Mindful Eating, One Health, sustainability, Ultra-Processed Foods
Seminar: Our Earth, A Fragile Home
When Batteries Die, Do They Go to Heaven?	Bruce S. Karpe	2016
Keywords: batteries, Chemistry, Electronic Waste, Environmental Science, High School, Physical Science, recycling, Science, sustainability, trash
Kids Can Campaign for Carbon Change and Help Reduce Global Warming	Sharon Karlyn	2016
Keywords: 4th Grade, climate, climate change, Earth Science, elementary, global warming, Science, weather
The Influence of Plate Tectonics on Our Ever Changing Earth	Emily McGady-Greenleaf	2016
Keywords: Earth disruptions, Earth Science, Earthquakes, geology
Seminar: Planning for a Sustainable, Environmentally Just, and Climate-Ready Philadelphia
Where Does All the Water Go?	John Daniel Hartzog	2023
Keywords: global warming, Green Infrastructure, sustainability, Urban Landscape, water cycle
The Power of Sustainability: Growing Climate Problem Solvers	Anna Herman	2023
Keywords: climate change, climate optimism, food security, food systems, food waste, sustainability, urban agriculture, urban foodshed, Wicked Problem
Natural Tendencies	Maya Bhagat	2023
Keywords: Lenape, Philadelphia, Place-based, sustainability
How Do We Envision A More Sustainable And Just Philadelphia?	Dr. Joe Alberti	2023
Keywords: Air Pollution, fossil fuels, Renewable and Non-renewable Energy, solar energy, sustainability