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
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
Estamos aquí: El ayer, hoy, y mañana de la historia latinx de filadelfia / We are here: The yesterday, today, and tomorrow of Philadelphia’s Latinx history	Jenifer Felix
Keywords: Bilingual, Demographics, Latinx Communities, Latinx History, Philadelphia Geography, Philadelphia history, Spanish as a Heritage Language, Spanish as a Native Language
Hispanic Heritage Month for All: 31 Days of LatinXellence	Alima McKnight
Keywords: Culture, elementary, Hispanic, Indigenous, interactive notebook, Latina, Latine, Latino, LatinX, National Hispanic Heritage Month, social studies
Social Change Through Meditation and Community Building in the Classroom	Shaquita Smith
Keywords: Bhavana, Buddha, community, compassion, dharma, empathy, equanimity, Meditation, meta (Metacognitive thinking) meditation, sangha, Three Jewels
Exploring Identity and Latin(a/o/x/e/@) Culture(s): Archeology of Self	Robert Rivera-Amezola
Keywords: “Latinidad”, Culture, digital poster, expression, LatinX, Personal Identity, racial literacy
Examining the East and West through the Brezhnev Doctrine	Alexander de Arana
Keywords: Brezhnev Doctrine, Cold War, Leonid Brezhnev, Prague Spring, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, World War Two
Peace and War	Deborah Wei
Keywords: Akan, China, Empire, feminism, Gandhi, Greece, hegemony, Mandate of Heaven, Meditation, meta, Pacifism, Peace, peacebuilding, peacemaking, Rome, Satyagraha, war
Nosotros la Gente	Theresa Eck
Keywords: Americanize, Boriken, civic rights and responsibilities, Dr. Albizu Campos, imperialism, insular cases, Jesus Colón, Jones Act, Lolita Lebrón, migration, military contributions, Philadelphia history, picture analysis, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico, Young Lords
Systems	James O'Karma
Keywords: adam smith, capitalism, communism, economic systems, feudalism, History, karl marx, Literature, Marxism, monopoly
The Appeal of Communism to African-Americans in the United States	Bill Chenevert
Keywords: Black Communists, Black history, capitalism, Claude McKay, communism, economics, Friedrich Engels, Jim Crow South, karl marx, Langston Hughes, McCarthyism, Paul Robeson, racism, socialism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Cold War, The Great Migration, the USSR
Understanding Latinidades: Reclaiming the Rite/Right to America	Ryann Rouse
Keywords: “banana republics, “Latinidad”, ” informational texts, Afro-Latinidad, collaborative learning, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, La Bamba, Latin America, Latin American colonial history, Latin American Geography, Latin American Politics, Latina, Latino, LatinX, Literature Circles, Panama, postcolonial Latin American Studies, Son Jarocho, summarization
Daughters of Immigrants: Poetry, Spoken Word, and Collage Essays	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: border crossings, daughter of immigrants, literary collage, national identity, poetry, spoken word, women immigrants, women refugees
“¿Pero las manos de quién?: Using cooking as archaeology to explore Indigenous voice, the Alkebulan diaspora and identity in the Spanish language classroom	Alicia Conquest
Keywords: Abya Yala, Alkebulan, Cooking in class, Decolonization, Foodways, Sancocho, World Language
Mind-Less Meditation	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: Asian Meditation, Emotional Support, mental health, Multicultural Science, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Well-being
The Power of Food Stories	Anna Herman
Keywords: cuisine, Culture, food culture, food stories, global food, migration, seed stories, supply chain
2023
Environmental Justice in Philadelphia	Deborah Wei
Keywords: community organizing, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Philadelphia refineries, power analysis, racism, stakeholders
Natural Tendencies	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: Lenape, Philadelphia, Place-based, sustainability
Where Does All the Water Go?	John Daniel Hartzog
Keywords: global warming, Green Infrastructure, sustainability, Urban Landscape, water cycle