Unit Title	Author
2021
Telling Stories and Making Connections Through Clay	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: Indigenous Pottery, storytelling, pottery, Pueblo, clay, Art
Weaving for Healing and Connection	Karen Rufino
Keywords: Hozhó, Native American, Diné, Spider Woman, weabing, tribe, Navajo, reservation
Changing Technology for a Changing Climate: Knowledge is not always power, but power is rarely ignorant	Chloe Glynn
Keywords: green technology, hands-on experiments, greenhouse gases, geopolitics, fossil fuels, social media, power, renewable energy, critical minerals, environment, climate change
Critical Interventions into the Single Story of Africa	Pearl Jonas
Keywords: Identity, narrative, Music, Culture, stereotypes, storytelling, perspective, project-based, Single story, Africa, African American History, Bias
A Geographical Analysis of Sites of African American History in Philadelphia	Hannah Zieve
Keywords: High School, Geography, social studies, project based learning, Research, African American History, anthropology
2020
Lasting Effects of Slavery	Victor M. Pomales Jr.
Keywords: film, social studies, Slavery, African American History
The Ongoing Black Freedom Struggle: Expanding the Single Story of the Civil Rights Movement	Pearl Jonas
Keywords: History, film, American History, Civil Rights Movement
The Dis-Connection of Our Roots	Stephanie M. Robinson
Keywords: Slavery, roots, African American History
Forging A Connection: Releasing the Bondage of Internalized Oppression through Quality Social Studies Instruction	Sondra W. Gonzalez
Keywords: internalized racism. vacant esteem. ever-present anger. racial socialization, Slavery, abolitionist
Slavery: A Tough Lesson to Learn	Margo Pinckney-Wilson
Keywords: diversity, poetry, Slavery
2019
Rich or King “Founding” Fathers or Mothers’ Mythology	Samuel A. Reed, III
Keywords: king, Humanities, mythology, founding fathers, American History
2018
Learning Through the Lens: How Hollywood Shapes the Way We View History	Andrea Ferentchak
Keywords: History activity, Media, Creative Writing, Reading, American History
2017
Jazz as Black History: Teaching African American History Through Musicology	Matthew Menschner
Keywords: Jazz Studies, Jazz History, Jazz, Musicology, Literature, Music Studies, Music History, Grades 9-12, World War II, The Jazz Age, The Harlem Renaissance, Swing Music, American History, African American History, Bebop
2016
The Haitian Revolution and Governor General Toussaint Louverture: A Biography	Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: High School, social studies
2015
“Moving on Up”: The Causes and the Impact of the Great Migration on African Americans	Tonya R. Oniyama
Keywords: inquiry-based learning, eleventh grade, world history, The Great Migration, tenth grade, ninth grade, African American History
Why Isn’t Puerto Rico a State Yet?	Meagan C. Rubino
Keywords: Empire, Puerto Rico, American empire, American History
2014
Whispering Rivers: Whatever Happened to the Indians of Pennsylvania?	Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe
Keywords: History, Native American issues, Native American History, Native American, Historical Context, Native Americans, Pennsylvania History, political unrest, Political thought, Political Activism, American History
Influencing Environmental Policy with Real Data	Meagan C. Rubino
Keywords: legislation, History, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Science, Government
The Seminole and African Collaboration: An Alliance for Survival	Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: Zachary Taylor, La Florida, John Horse, John Caesar, Native American History, Mikasuki, Micconuppe, Micanopy, Luis Fatio Pacheco, Edmund P. Gaines, Duncan Clinch, Destruction of St. John’s Sugar Plantations, Dade’s Massacre, History, Gullah, First Battle of Withlacoochee, Geechee, freedom fighters, Francis L. Dade, St. Augustine, St. John Slave Revolt, Thomas Sidney Jesup, Wild Cat, Tuskegee, Osceola, Negro Fort Massacre, runaway slaves, Seminoles, Seminole maroons, Seige of Camp Izard, Second Battle of Withlacoochee, American History, Alachua chief, Abraham, Colonial Florida, African American History, Ben Bruner, Asi Yahola, Battle at Jupiter Inlet, Battle of Lockahatchee, Battle of Okeechobee, Battle of Wahoo Swamp, Black Seminoles, Coacoochee, Battle at Hatcheelustee Creek, Andrew Jackson
Native American Music and Living Legends	Cynthia Cozette Lee
Keywords: Native American music, crossover, History, traditional, percussion instruments, contemporary, biographies