Unit Title	Author
2024
The Pulse of the Land: Using the Arts to Teach About War	Keeler Park
Keywords: Art, conflict, Creative Writing, Culture, emotion, History, Literary Analysis, military, Military History, poetry, primary source, secondary source, social studies, social-emotional learning, war, world history
Economics, Abundance, and Value, or How Much Is Too Much Salami?	Chloe Glynn
Keywords: agriculture, choice, economics, environmental, environmentalism, History, meat, Politics, responsibility, value
Meditation as Liberation: Transforming our Schools and Ourselves	Elizabeth Cesarini
Keywords: contemplative studies, EL, ELD, elementary, emergent bilinguals, English as a second language, English language development, English learner, English to speakers of other languages, ESL, ESOL, immigrant education, Meditation, Middle School, Mindfulness, ML, multilingual learners, project based learning, refugee education, SLIFE, student choice, students with limited or interrupted formal education, translanguaging
“Tell Me, How Can I Explain?”: Using 8th-Century Chinese Poetry to Meditate Responsibly in 21st-Century Classrooms	Danina Garcia
Keywords: Chan Buddhism, Chinese History, Meditation, mental health, Mindfulness, poetry, Trauma-Informed Instruction
Identity and Immigration: An Upper Elementary Literacy Unit	Emma Connolly
Keywords: Creative Writing, fiction, Fifth-Grade, literacy, podcasts, poetry, upper elementary
Indomitable Voices: LGBTQIA+ Activism within the Latinx Civil Rights Movement	Marla Colondres
Keywords: “Latinidad”, activism, civil rights, discrimination, equality, intersectionality, Latino/a/x/é, LGBTQIA+, Stonewall riots
«Ahora empieza una nueva vida para ti»: migración y desplazamiento en el mundo hispanohablante / “Now a new life begins for you”: Migration and displacement in the Spanish-speaking world	Matthew Fischetti
Keywords: AP Spanish Language and Culture, Central America, children’s literature, discrimination, displacement, film, Honduras, IB Spanish, immigration, incarceration, Latin America, migration, militarized global apartheid, Morocco, Music, North Africa, poetry, Spain, Spanish, xenophobia
2023
What Happens When High School Students Study the Role of Trauma in Black Art	Geoffrey Winikur
Keywords: Black Art, Black Lives Matter, brain science, generational trauma, hip-hop, Music, racial violence, Trauma, white supremacy
Sustainability is the Name of the Game!	Alima McKnight
Keywords: climate change, digital native, elementary, engagement, game based theory, gamification, motivation, pollution, solution, sustainability
Music and Art Are Healing: Neurographic Art in the Classroom	Ms. Allison Aubry, M.ED
Keywords: Art, brain breaks, healing, meditative doodling, Music, neuro art, Neurographic art, The Sound of Philadelphia
Music’s Effect on Community Resilience	Theresa Eck
Keywords: Advanced Placement U.S. History aka APUSH, analyzing historical evidence, free black communities in the early republic, Music, music’s effect on history, Philadelphia history, social emotional learning in history
“Rare Ability and Devotion”: Elizabeth Tyler, first visiting Black nurse of Philadelphia, as Counter-Narrative	Danina Garcia
Keywords: African American History, Henrietta Lacks, Medical History, Medicine, Nursing History, Philadelphia, Tuberculosis
Trauma, Music, and Healing: The Power of Music to Transform a Classroom	Charlette Walker
Keywords: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), digital literacy, ELA, Emotional Health, mental health, Middle School, Music, resilience, social-emotional learning (SEL), toxic stress, Trauma, writing
Music History from Philadelphia and the Emotional Being and Effect of Music on the Brain	Michelle Jackson
Keywords: brain, Emotional Being, local artists, local history, Music, Music History, Philadelphia, public schools
MUSIC IS… JOY! LOVE! HEALING!	Karen Brinkley
Keywords: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Music, Philadelphia International Records
Exposure: Lead in Philadelphia	Chloe Glynn
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
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
Keywords: asthma, childhood, childhood development, Health, prevention
Methods to the madness – Activities for the teaching of research methods in AP Research using environmental science	John P. Danihel
Keywords: air quality, atmospheric science, publicly available environmental data sets, research methods
What is Home?	Jeannette Moon
Keywords: Du Bois, Genre Analysis, Hansberry, Home, mapping, maps, Raisin in the Sun, Seventh Ward, storytelling, survey, Wayward Lives