Unit Title	Author
2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
Environmental Justice in Philadelphia	Deborah Wei
Keywords: community organizing, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Philadelphia refineries, power analysis, racism, stakeholders
“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
The “Peculiar” Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, the Seventh Ward, and The Philadelphia Negro	Robbie Marsden
Keywords: Du Bois, Philadelphia Negro, Seventh Ward, Sociology
The School on Greenberg Street: Using The Philadelphia Negro and The House on Mango Street as models to tell the story of a neighborhood	Katherine Cohen Volin
Keywords: 7th Ward, The House on Mango Street, The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. Du Bois
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
Compounded Environmental Injustice requires Compounded Solutions	Theresa Eck
Keywords: action learning, advocacy, asthma, civic action, civics, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, local government, pollution
Natural Tendencies	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: Lenape, Philadelphia, Place-based, sustainability
A Class Act	Margo A. Pinckney
Keywords: data collection, race relations
Correcting Epistemic Injustices and Memorializing 19th Century Black Women	Shaquita Smith
Keywords: black women, epistemic injustice, historically marginalized voices, marginalized groups, Monuments, murals, Sociology, The Old Seventh Ward, The Philadelphia Negro, using sociology to study history, W.E.B. Du Bois
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
World History or White History?: Deconstructing Race in the World History Classroom	Keeler Park
Keywords: analysis, annotation, Critical Race Theory, criticality, DBQ, discussion, document-based questions, Equity, Geography, History, map reading, power, primary source, race, Slavery, social studies, society, Sociology, world history
2021
Where Does Our Water Come From?	David White
Keywords: water, water cycle, water filtration, water pollution, Watershed