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Seminar: American Political Culture


The African American and the Woman Suffrage Movement

Myrtle Bastien 2009
Keywords: African American, African American women, class discrimination, disenfranchised, gender discrimination, High School, important struggle, partisan interests, racial discrimination, right to vote

Reconstruction: The Promises and Failures of Post-Civil War America

Hye-Won Gehring and Shanee Garner 2009
Keywords: 10th grade, 11th grade, African American History, American History, economic tropes, English, High School, historical contexts, literacy skills, political, Reconstruction, social, student-centered

Seminar: Asian Americans in U.S. Schools


Latin Asians: Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in Latin America

Alisha Davis 2022
Keywords: Culture, ethnicity, High School, Identity, Latino, panethnicity, project based learning, race, social studies education

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


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

The Haitian Revolution and Governor General Toussaint Louverture: A Biography

Keysiah M. Middleton 2016
Keywords: High School, social studies

Seminar: Cities through the Lens of Race, Class, and Gender


A Geographical Analysis of Sites of African American History in Philadelphia

Hannah Zieve 2021
Keywords: African American History, anthropology, Geography, High School, project based learning, Research, social studies

Using Poetry to Confront Neighborhood Representation and Gentrification

Sally O’Brien 2021
Keywords: class, gender, gentrification, High School, intersectionality, landscape literacy, media analysis, metaphor, place-based learning, poetry, race

Seminar: From Slavery to Civil Rights


Economic Restrictions and Opportunities of Freed People

Bernadette McHenry 2013
Keywords: African American History, freedmen, High School, primary sources, Reconstruction, social studies

Seminar: From West Africa to West Philadelphia


From Cornrow Village to Corporate City II Culturally-Based Classroom Guidance for Transitioning High School Students

Karon S. Waters 2008
Keywords: African American History, High School

Seminar: Listening to the Music of Contemporary Africa: History, Politics, and Human Origins


Hand-Made Music: Creating the Instruments and Sounds of Africa

Katherine Steiner 2021
Keywords: Africa, African music, Africana studies, Art, contemporary music, hands-on, High School, high school art, high school music, instrument, Music

Seminar: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry


Poetry Out Loud: Reading, Reciting, and Responding to Poetry

Stacia Parker 2013
Keywords: close reading, English, High School, out loud, poetry, spoken word

In the Spanish World Language Classroom: Discovering Form and Content in Bilingual Poems

Mary Anne Stuppy 2013
Keywords: bilingual poems, content, Foreign Language, form, High School, poetry, Spanish

Seminar: Oats, Kings, Proofs, and Climate Change: How Do You Know?


Propaganda and “Truth”: How Do You Know?

Elisabeth Raab 2009
Keywords: English, High School, persuasion, Propaganda, rhetoric

Seminar: Origami Engineering


Origami Engineering and Product Design

Elizabeth Szablya 2018
Keywords: Art, asian art and culture, construct, design, design thinking, engineering, fold, hands-on, High School, kirigami, modular origami, origami, PHiZZ, Physical Science, presentation, project based instruction, project-based, prototype, Science, Science activity, Scientific Method, snapology, spatial reasoning, STEAM, STEM, student lead, tessilation, Yoshizawa, Yoshizawa randlett

Seminar: Our Earth, A Fragile Home


A Cry from the Climate: The Glacier is Talking

Nichole Boyd 2016
Keywords: climate change, Earth Science, Environmental Science, glaciers, global warming, High School

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

Is Technology Destroying Earth?

Alena Newpher-Lockard 2016
Keywords: chemical reactions, Chemistry, environment, High School, Science, Technology

Seminar: Philosophy, Science & Society


Agency Through Inquiry: A Quest for Social Justice

Ryann Rouse 2018
Keywords: ecofeminism, ELA, English Language Arts, ethics, geomedicine, High School, philosophy, scientific justice, social justice, structural violence

Seminar: Planning for a Sustainable, Environmentally Just, and Climate-Ready Philadelphia


Climate Justice and Jurassic Park

Renae Curless 2023
Keywords: climate change, climate justice, ELA, English, environmentalism, High School, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, science fiction

Seminar: Renewable Energy Schemes


Using Transfer as a Schema to Learn about Energy: A Modular Approach

Matthew N VanKouwenberg 2021
Keywords: Constructivist, electricity, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Energy Transfer, Environmental Science, Eolic, Experiment, Generator, global warming, High School, Lab, Magnetism, Mechanical Energy, Middle School, Motor, PhotoVoltaics, Physical Science, physics, student-centered, Thermodynamics, wind energy