Unit Title	Author
2025
Soft Robotics	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: engineering design, origami, soft robots
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Math Test? Breaking Down Math Anxiety and Math Disabilities as They Relate to Standardized Test Questions and Performance	Kati Steiner
Keywords: dyscalculia, Keystones, learning strategies, Math, math anxiety, math disability, standardized tests, word problems
Cognitive Models for Fractions Mastery	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau, 邱玉娟
Keywords: Cognitive Load Theory (CLT), cognitive models, Cognitive Science, Concrete Representational Abstract (CRA) approach, Dual Coding Theory (DCT), elaboration, fractions, interleaved practice, retrieval practice, spaced practice, swarm intelligence (SI).
Why Didn’t I Think of That: Helping Students Solve Math Word Problems	Alima McKnight
2024
Mind-Less Meditation	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: Asian Meditation, Emotional Support, mental health, Multicultural Science, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Well-being
2023
Building an Environmentally Equitable Community One School at Time	Tia Graves
Keywords: Climate Justice/Racism, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Equity, green stormwater infrastructure, Mitigation, resilience, Sea Level Rise, Urban Heat Island Adaptation
A Class Act	Margo A. Pinckney
Keywords: data collection, race relations
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Making of Accordion Books, Data Portraits, and People Places	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: 7th Ward, Accordion Books, Data Portraits, Data visualization, Placemaking, Social Epidemiology, The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. Du Bois
A Healthy Me is a Better Me	Marie P. Clarke
Keywords: airways, allergy, asthma, pollution, respiratory, triggers, wheezing asthma attack
Flight of the Coordinates- Math-Driven Drone Search and Rescue in Fairmount Park	Monique Carter
Keywords: area, cartesian graphing, circle, community policing, composite, conditionals, coordinate graphing, criticality, diversity, drones, Equity, Gholdy Muhammad, Inclusion, joy, justice, Math, metric measurement, origin, perimeter, point, polygon, quadrant, quadrilateral, scale, scale factor, search and rescue, sensors, trapezoid, triangle, variables, x-axis, y-axis
Bio-Design Fabrication and Soft/DIY Drones	Christopher Sweeney
Keywords: Bio-Design, Bio-Fabrication, design, Digital Fabrication, drones, Mycelium, Soft drones
High Flying Geometry!	Catherine Michini
Keywords: angle of elevation, area, Blockly for Robolink, campus exploration, clinometer, coding/programing, CoDrone EDU, DJI Mini Pro 4, Drone, drone safety, fermi questions, height, percent error, polygon characteristics, right triangle trigonometry, student challenge, volume
2022
Cultivating our Cultural Identities	Rebecca Horner
Keywords: bilingualism, butterfly, caterpillar, Culture, EL, ESL, ESOL, ethnicity, family, Food, kindergarten, kinesthetic, parental involvement, parents, phonemic awareness, primary, social capital
Untangling Hair Discrimination	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: CROWN act, Gender Bias, Hair, hair discrimination, hair laws, hairstyles, Native American boarding school, queue, race bias, tignon
Bio-Design Fabrication and Soft Robots	Christopher Sweeney
Keywords: Bio-Design, Bio-Fabrication, design, Digital Fabrication, Mycelium, robotics, Robots, soft robotics
2021
Redefining the Teaching & Learning of Mathematics	Tracy Saltz
Keywords: active learning, Equity, Math Education, mathematical practices, problem solving, productive struggle
Framing Africa with 5 Music Narratives	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: Africa, African music, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, freedom songs, griots, gumboot, hip-hop, Kenya, Mali, national anthems, protest dances, protest songs, Pygmies, South Africa, stepping, Zap Mama
Breast Cancer: An Exponential Process	Vicki Baker
Keywords: Algebra 2, Breast cancer, cancer, Elementary Functions, exponential functions, logarithmic functions, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2020
Visualizing Word Problems: A Path to a Solution	Rachel Odoroff
Keywords: algebra, function, Math
Conquering Space: A Voyage to Understanding	Catherine Michini
Keywords: algeba, geometry, Math, NCTM, PSAT