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Seminar: American Capitalism


Rock and Roll and the Record and Broadcasting Industry

Sandy O’Keefe 2007
Keywords: African American Artists, Blues music, Music, Philadelphia, rhythm, rock and roll

Why Are There Abandoned Factories in My Neighborhood?

Tim Woods 2007
Keywords: History, Industrial history, Philadelphia, William Penn

Seminar: American Political Culture


From Little Rock to Philadelphia: A Look at School Desegregation

Alison McCartney 2009
Keywords: Arkansas, Central High School, desegregation, little rock, Little Rock Nine, Philadelphia, racial inequalities, Research, school desegregation, Warriors Don't Cry

Early Abolitionists in Philadelphia

Sandy O’Keefe 2009
Keywords: 8th grade, abolitionists, African American, anti-slavery, Colonial America, end to slavery, Philadelphia, Quakers

Philadelphia 1793: Yellow Fever, Race, Medicine and Politics

Mona Kolsky 2009
Keywords: History, Medicine, Philadelphia, race, yellow fever

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


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

Seminar: Cancer Biology and Technology


Breast Cancer: An Exponential Process

Vicki Baker 2021
Keywords: Algebra 2, Breast cancer, cancer, Elementary Functions, exponential functions, logarithmic functions, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Seminar: Cinema and Civil Rights


Still Segregated in 2020: A Study of Equity in Philadelphia Area Schools through Film Study and Creation

Katherine Steiner 2020
Keywords: cinema, civics, Civil Rights Movement, communications, freedom, Government, History, Media, Philadelphia, Politics

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


Discovering Our Community Assets

Sarah C. Beverly 2021
Keywords: assets, community, English Language Arts, Philadelphia, service learning, social studies

Wicked Problems, Place, and Liberation

Charlie McGeehan 2021
Keywords: cities, Kensington, Philadelphia, social justice, Wicked Problem

Seminar: Environmental Humanities from the Tidal Schuylkill River


Noticing and Wondering, Who Decides How a River is Made?

Vicki Baker 2019
Keywords: algebra, climate change, mathematics, Philadelphia, Schuylkill River

A Place Based Climate Change Exploration for Middle School

Rachel Odoroff 2019
Keywords: climate activists, climate change, climate literacy, Philadelphia

Environmental Humanities Through the Lens of a Math Teacher

Tracy Saltz 2019
Keywords: carbon dioxide, environmental humanities, Math, Philadelphia, pollution, Schuylkill River

Seminar: Lead & Health


Living With Lead: Lessons for Environmental Justice and Citizenship

Ryann Rouse 2019
Keywords: analyzing informational texts, central theme, environmental citizenship, environmental justice, Flint, interpreting facts, lead, lead legislation, lead paint, lead poisoning, lead regulation, Philadelphia, research project, toxicity, toxins, water crisis

Seminar: Music and Healing in Philadelphia


Music History from Philadelphia and the Emotional Being and Effect of Music on the Brain

Michelle Jackson 2023
Keywords: brain, Emotional Being, local artists, local history, Music, Music History, Philadelphia, public schools

Seminar: Origami Engineering


Phila-Gami: Philadelphia Themed Folding in the Math Classroom

Catherine Michini 2018
Keywords: Alexander Calder, Art, fold-and-cut, geometry, Math, Mobile, origami, Philadelphia, Pi Day, pop-up card, STEAM

Seminar: Philadelphia and the Immigrant Experience


Germantown PA: Researching the Great Road Welcome Mat

Barbara McDowell Dowdall 2008
Keywords: 9th grade, African, Daniel Pastorious, Dutch trading company, English 1, Germantown, Irish, Italian, Philadelphia

Give and Take from the Great Demographic Fact: A Vagarious Look At Commercial Influence over Cultural Exchange in 20th- and 21st-century Philadelphia

Chadd S. Johnson 2008
Keywords: clothing trade in Africa, commerce, commercial influence, cultural imperialism, data analysis, History, migration, personal narrative, Philadelphia, worker migration

The Peopling of Philadelphia: 19th Century Immigration

Mona Kolsky 2008
Keywords: 19th Century Immigration, advertisements, Graphs, industrial city, Lazaretto Quarantine Station, national trends, Philadelphia, photographs, political cartoons, ship manifests, stereotyping

Bound Labor in Philadelphia

Sandy O’Keefe 2008
Keywords: apprentice, apprenticeships, bound labor, Colonial Philadelphia, immigrants, indentured servants, Philadelphia, redemptioners, servitude, workforce