Unit Title	Author
2023
Environmental Justice in Philadelphia	Deborah Wei
Keywords: environmental justice, Environmental Racism, community organizing, Philadelphia refineries, stakeholders, power analysis, racism
Natural Tendencies	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: Philadelphia, Lenape, Place-based, sustainability
Climate Justice and Jurassic Park	Renae Curless
Keywords: ELA, English, environmentalism, climate change, climate justice, Michael Crichton, High School, Jurassic Park, science fiction
Where Does All the Water Go?	John Daniel Hartzog
Keywords: global warming, Green Infrastructure, water cycle, Urban Landscape, sustainability
Sustainability is the Name of the Game!	Alima McKnight
Keywords: elementary, engagement, climate change, digital native, motivation, game based theory, gamification, solution, sustainability, pollution
Building an Environmentally Equitable Community One School at Time	Tia Graves
Keywords: environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Equity, Climate Justice/Racism, Mitigation, green stormwater infrastructure, Urban Heat Island Adaptation, Sea Level Rise, resilience
The Power of Sustainability: Growing Climate Problem Solvers	Anna Herman
Keywords: Wicked Problem, food security, food waste, climate change, climate optimism, food systems, urban foodshed, urban agriculture, sustainability
2022
Evaluate the Power of a “Heart on Fire”	Theresa Eck
Keywords: dominant narrative, challenging dominant narratives, nation state, HIPP, analyzing historical evidence, APUSH, progressivism, Reconstruction
Brain Games	Audrey Golub
Keywords: Critical thinking, Cryptograms, Four Color Theorem, games, justify, Standards of Mathematical Practice, Battleships, reasoning, puzzles
Modular Arithmetic for Developing Fact Fluency	Tessa Murphy Nitkin
Keywords: elementary, fact fluency, clock arithmetic, mathematics, modular arithmetic, intervention, addition
Using Mathematical Representations to Provide Student Choice and Enrichment	Kara Yanochko
Keywords: enrichment, extension, flexibility, choice boards, mathematics, menus, choice, centers, student choice, rotations, reasoning
Indigenous Voices: Crossroads between Monuments and Trees	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: Crazy Horse, Penn Treaty Tree, Little Bighorn Battlefield., Monuments, Mount Rushmore, indigenous people
Who Tells Your Story? The Power of Debate and Discourse in the High School Classroom	Katherine Steiner
Keywords: Christopher Columbus, debate, Monument, Philadelphia Museum of Art, High School, Mural, Rocky
Blood Money – The Making of Philadelphia’s Heroes	Deborah Wei
Old City Philadelphia	Mary Patricia Lavin
Latin Asians: Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in Latin America	Alisha Davis
Keywords: ethnicity, Culture, panethnicity, Latino, High School, Identity, social studies education, race, project based learning
Engaging Philadelphia’s Ward System: How democratic is our system?	Charlie McGeehan
Keywords: civics, democracy, local politics, Government, Inquiry, interview, authentic assessment
Considering Cultural Communities in the Middle School Literacy Classroom	Emma Connolly
Keywords: ethnicity, comprehension instruction, Culture, discussion, Middle School, graphic novels, Identity, special education, vocabulary instruction, assimilation
How Coal Changed Philadelphia: 1820-1865	William McGeehan
Keywords: Coal, locomotives, nativism, mineral energy, industrialization, ironworking, social reform, whiteness, water pollution, textile mills, steamships, poverty, antebellum Philadelphia
“Teaching Black visual culture through PBL”	Alla Dolderer
Keywords: ekphratic poems, photography, visual culture, video clips, African American culture, Art, Black culture, Black History month, moving pictures