Unit Title	Author
2022
Visual Music: Hip-Hop Style	Courtney Powers
Keywords: Authentic Audience, Authentic Music, Beyonce, Digital Music, Frederick Douglass, Intermedia, Jaffa, Jay Z, Kanye West, project based learning, Visual Music, Whole Music
Awake the Uniqueness in Me!	Dr. David L. Turner
Keywords: Barrack Obama, Black culture, Black gaze, black hair, Black history, Fredrick Douglass, James Baldwin and Tina Campt, Toni Morrison, white gaze
Makerspaces: Where Precision and Play Intersect	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: collaboration, creative, creativity, High School, lessons, makerspace, play, problem solving, robot, soft robots, visual arts
Bio-Design Fabrication and Soft Robots	Christopher Sweeney
Keywords: Bio-Design, Bio-Fabrication, design, Digital Fabrication, Mycelium, robotics, Robots, soft robotics
2021
How Music and Song has Influenced Political Change in Africa and the United States	Carmen R. Carrion M.Ed.
Keywords: African American History, African music, Music
The Sound of Resistance: Protest Music in African Cinema	David Jennis
Keywords: African Cinema, African music, Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony, Apartheid, History of Africa: Resistance and Liberation, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, South Africa
Hand-Made Music: Creating the Instruments and Sounds of Africa	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: Africa, African music, Africana studies, Art, contemporary music, hands-on, High School, high school art, high school music, instrument, Music
Never Sing the Same Way Twice: Encouraging Student Voice with Umm Kulthum	Benjamin Perkins
Keywords: Africa, business, Drum, Egypt, Harmony, improvisation, Keyboard, Melody, Music, Performance, Piano, poetry, rhythm, Technology, Umm Kulthum, voice
Representing our Blessings on Pottery Inspired by Southwestern Native American Art	Allison Aubry
Keywords: Art, blessings, clay tools, coil pot, motif, narrative, Native American, pinch pot, pottery, pottery wheel, Pueblo Pottery, secondary, slab, symbolism, symbols, well wishes
Form, Function and Symbolism: Art of The Pueblo Peoples	Kimberley Colasante
Keywords: Acoma, Ancestral Pueblo, Cochiti, Jason Garcia, Maria Martinez, Pueblo Pottery, Pueblo revolt, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Santa Clara Pueblo, Santa Domingo Pueblo, Taos, Tewa, Zuni
The Navajo, the Pueblos and Me	Jennifer Gallagher
Keywords: “The Long Walk”, Art, clay, fry bread, hogan, Native Americans, Navajo, pottery, Pueblo, Southwest, textiles, tradition and culture, weaving
Honoring Ancestral Cultural Traditions and Finding Community in Contemporary Life through Art Making	Alison Marzuoli
Keywords: Choice Based Art Education, Ethnographic Study, high school art, Navajo Jewelry, Navajo Weaving, Pueblo Pottery, Southwest Native American Art, Southwest Native Americans
Tangible History: Engaging Students Through Art of Indigenous Cultures	Alima McKnight
Keywords: appreciation, appropriation, Art, Blackfoot, Culture, design, hands-on, Indigenous, Native American, Navajo, pottery, Pueblo, symbols, teepees, textiles, weaving
Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language	Greg Probst
Keywords: Art, artifacts, community, Creative Writing, Culture, English Language Arts, High School, Indigenous, individuality, louise erdrich, Native American, Navajo, neoindigenous, philly, poetry, Pueblo, society, south philadelphia, southwestern
Weaving for Healing and Connection	Karen Rufino
Keywords: Diné, Hozhó, Native American, Navajo, reservation, Spider Woman, tribe, weabing
Telling Stories and Making Connections Through Clay	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: Art, clay, Indigenous Pottery, pottery, Pueblo, storytelling
Dance for Social Justice	Dr. Joy Lurie Friedlander
Keywords: Artistry, Body Mind, Choreography, collaboration, dance, democracy, diversity, Embodied Activism, Equity, Holistic Teaching, Inclusion, Inclusive Pedagogy, perspective, social justice, Somatics
2020
“Take Root Among the Stars” A Speculative Curriculum Unit for Fifth Grade	Vanetta Wood
Keywords: creative arts
The Ongoing Black Freedom Struggle: Expanding the Single Story of the Civil Rights Movement	Pearl Jonas
Keywords: American History, Civil Rights Movement, film, History
Lasting Effects of Slavery	Victor M. Pomales Jr.
Keywords: African American History, film, Slavery, social studies