Unit Title	Author
2016
Reading Activist Playwrights, Writing Activist Plays	Anissa Weinraub
Keywords: Activist Art, black arts movement, Creative Writing, English, Theater
The Chemistry of Rocks in the Wissahickon Valley	Cristobal Carambo
Keywords: Environmental Science, GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA, rock cycle, WISSAHICKON SCHIST, WISSAHICKON VALLEY
A Cry from the Climate: The Glacier is Talking	Nichole Boyd
Keywords: climate change, Earth Science, Environmental Science, glaciers, global warming, High School
When Batteries Die, Do They Go to Heaven?	Bruce S. Karpe
Keywords: batteries, Chemistry, Electronic Waste, Environmental Science, High School, Physical Science, recycling, Science, sustainability, trash
Kids Can Campaign for Carbon Change and Help Reduce Global Warming	Sharon Karlyn
Keywords: 4th Grade, climate, climate change, Earth Science, elementary, global warming, Science, weather
Is Technology Destroying Earth?	Alena Newpher-Lockard
Keywords: chemical reactions, Chemistry, environment, High School, Science, Technology
Climate Change and My World	Jaimie Piotrowicz
Keywords: atmosphere, carbon dioxide, climate change, emissions, greenhouse gas, Natural resources, pollution, temperature
Earth, Our Fragile Home: Waste, Methane and Climate Change	Cara Wallin
Keywords: climate change, global warming, greenhouse effect, landfills, methane gas
Have You Ever Told That Story Before? Student Biographers Asking Important Life Questions, Preserving Memories and Writing History	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: biography, elementary, language arts, social studies, writing
Planetary Motion From the Ground Up	Klint Kanopka
Keywords: advanced placement, advanced placement physics, ap physics, argument, astronomy, Galileo, geocentric, geometry, gravity, heliocentric, High School, Inquiry, Kepler, Math, mathematics, Newton, observation, orbit, Physical Science, physics, Science, simulation, solar system
Sisters in the Shadows: Black Women During the Black Arts Movement	Kristian Ali
Keywords: black arts movement, black women, English, feminism, gender awareness, High School, language arts, movement, revolution, self-awareness, social justice
2015
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on 18th Century Philadelphia	Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: 18th century Philadelphia, 18th century Philadelphia merchants, affranchise, African American History, American History, big whites, class division in Saint Domingue, Code Noir of 1685, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, eleventh grade American History, Exclusif, francophone, free people of color, French negroes in Philadelphia, French slaves in Philadelphia, gens de couleur libres, Girondists, Global Studies, grands blancs, Haiti, Haitian rebellion, Haitian Revolution, Haitians in Philadelphia, high school history, Jacques Pierre Brissot, literature of Haitian Revolution, Middle school social studies, ninth grade World History, petits blancs, petty whites, Philadelphia 18th century history, Polverel, Saint Dominguan slaves in Philadelphia, Saint Domingue civil war, Saint Domingue rebellion, Saint Domingue refugees in Philadelphia, Saint Domingue slave revolution, slave uprising, small whites, Societie des Amis des Noir, Sonthonax, Stephen Girard, tenth grade African American History, world history
The Panama Canal: Path to Global Destiny	Patrick Naughton
Keywords: American History, Empire, engineering, Geography, Panama Canal, Roosevelt, Socratic Seminar, yellow fever
“Moving on Up”: The Causes and the Impact of the Great Migration on African Americans	Tonya R. Oniyama
Keywords: African American History, eleventh grade, inquiry-based learning, ninth grade, tenth grade, The Great Migration, world history
Our Songs, Our Story: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop- The Use of Music in the African-American Culture	Jada L. Warfield-Henry
Keywords: hip-hop, History, language arts, Music, Slaves, songs, spirituals
“What If…?”	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: being “the other”, ethics, science fiction, social commentary, time travel
(re)viewing bodies: The Walking Dead and Social Constructions in a Post-Apocalyptic Society	Tara Ann Carter
Keywords: “The Comet”, African American History, language arts, Literature, Reading, Social Construction, The Walking Dead, W.E.B. Du Bois, writing
“All of the Same Family”: The Fictional Science that Created America	Benjamin Hover
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism
Un-Zombied and Magically Black: A Kaleidoscope of the African-American’s Supernatural World	Wendi Mungai Umoren
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism
The Electrochemistry of Cell Phone Batteries	Joseph L. Hill, Jr.
Keywords: batteries, battery, Danielson, Electrochemistry, lithium ion, oxidation, reduction, voltaic cell