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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Educating for American Democracy


How Coal Changed Philadelphia: 1820-1865

William McGeehan 2022
Keywords: antebellum Philadelphia, Coal, industrialization, ironworking, locomotives, mineral energy, nativism, poverty, social reform, steamships, textile mills, water pollution, whiteness

Political Parties: Vehicles or Disruptors of American Democracy?

Alexander de Arana 2022
Keywords: Democrats, interest groups, multiparty system, Political parties, Republicans, third parties, two-party system

“There Must Come A Change”: School-Based Black Educational Activism in Philadelphia

Danina M. Garcia-Fuller 2022
Keywords: 1967 Walkout, African American History, Literary Societies, rhetoric, School District History

Impacts of Social Media on Democracy

Timothy Woods 2022
Keywords: Big Tech, democracy, digital literacy, disinformation, misinformation, social media

Exploring Civic Engagement through Early Childhood Special Education

Alissa Capponi 2022
Keywords: autistic support, community engagement, life skills, special education, vocational skills

Who Owns The Land?: The Sparrow’s Principle and Anti-Gentrification in Philadelphia

Tyriese James Holloway 2022
Keywords: gentrification, Marita’s Bargain

Untangling Hair Discrimination

Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau 2022
Keywords: CROWN act, Gender Bias, Hair, hair discrimination, hair laws, hairstyles, Native American boarding school, queue, race bias, tignon

Educating for Democracy TIP Seminar 2022: The 14th Amendment And Persons With Disabilities, What Students Should Know

Peggy Marie Savage 2022
Keywords: Disabilities; Fourteenth Amendment; equal protection; Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; Americans with Disabilities Act; IEP; LRE

Seminar: Electronics from Toys to Tools: An Adventure for Future Engineers


The Electric Human

Nichole Boyd 2015
Keywords: Human body replica, Models of human body, Nervous system, Ohm’s law

Teaching Math Using Electronics

Cara Wallin 2015
Keywords: Algebraic Equations, circuits, Conversions, Robots, STEM

Hey! Who Turned Out the Lights? Electricity in Series and Parallel Circuits

Sharon Mastrobuoni 2015
Keywords: conductors, electrical circuit, electricity, insulators, Parallel Circuit, Physical Science, resistance, Series Circuit

How To: An Adventure in Writing and Designing Circuits

Tia D. Larese 2015
Keywords: breadboard, Circuit, diode, engineering, invention, language arts, LED, light bulb, Physical Science, quiz board, Technology, timeline, transistor, writing

Tinkering with Simple Electric Circuits

Ambra Hook 2015
Keywords: electric circuits, electricity, parallel circuits, Physical Science, series circuits, tinkering

Electricity Through Nonfiction Text

Melissa McPhillips 2015
Keywords: electricity, energy, nonfiction text, primary

Animal & Plant Electricity

Bruce S. Karpe 2015
Keywords: animal, cellular transmissions, electrical signal, electricity, environmental stimuli

Seminar: Environmental Humanities from the Tidal Schuylkill River


Noticing and Wondering, Who Decides How a River is Made?

Vicki Baker 2019
Keywords: algebra, climate change, mathematics, Philadelphia, Schuylkill River

Reading, Writing, Rivers: An Interdisciplinary Environmental Humanities Unit for Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities

Emma Connolly 2019
Keywords: learning disbability, Reading, writing

Ebbs and Flows: The Schuylkill River a Symbol of Rivers Everywhere

Taylor Franko 2019
Keywords: pollution, rivers, Schuylkill River, symbol

A Place Based Climate Change Exploration for Middle School

Rachel Odoroff 2019
Keywords: climate activists, climate change, climate literacy, Philadelphia

Environmental Humanities Through the Lens of a Math Teacher

Tracy Saltz 2019
Keywords: carbon dioxide, environmental humanities, Math, Philadelphia, pollution, Schuylkill River