Unit Title	Author
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
Changing Technology for a Changing Climate: Knowledge is not always power, but power is rarely ignorant	Chloe Glynn
Keywords: climate change, critical minerals, environment, fossil fuels, geopolitics, green technology, greenhouse gases, hands-on experiments, power, renewable energy, social media
Sustainable? Systemic Dis-illusions?	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: critical metals, rare earth metals, sustainability, systems
Weaving for Healing and Connection	Karen Rufino
Keywords: Diné, Hozhó, Native American, Navajo, reservation, Spider Woman, tribe, weabing
2016
Linking Cultures and History During Colonial Pennsylvania	Karen J. Burrell
Keywords: biography, elementary, Informational text, Pennsylvania History, social studies, William Penn
The Haitian Revolution and Governor General Toussaint Louverture: A Biography	Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: High School, social studies
2015
How to Win a War Without Even Shooting: Haitian Revolution Strategy	Lynn Gourinski Fahr
Keywords: cholera, disease preventions, Haiti, high school history, History, middle school history, revolution strategies, yellow fever
2014
Whispering Rivers: Whatever Happened to the Indians of Pennsylvania?	Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe
Keywords: American History, Historical Context, History, Native American, Native American History, Native American issues, Native Americans, Pennsylvania History, Political Activism, Political thought, political unrest