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Unit TitleAuthor

2015


Economic Sustainability: Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover

Matt Hunn
Keywords: algebra, economic sustainability, functions, intercepts, linear equations, slope, unit rates

Five Earths

Alexander Maxfield Arnosky
Keywords: being “the other”, ethics, science fiction, social commentary, time travel

Tinkering with Simple Electric Circuits

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

Electricity Through Nonfiction Text

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

Conservation: The Thermodynamics of Sustainability

Klint Kanopka
Keywords: advanced placement, ap physics, climate, design, energy, engineering, heat, maker, makered, making, Math, mathematics, physics, problem based learning, problem solving, project based learning, sustainability, Technology, temperature, Thermodynamics

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

African-American Narratives Exploratory: Detective Gazes & Futuristic Furies

Bonnee Breese Bentum
Keywords: African American literature, African-American authors, African-American heroes, Barbara Neely, Cosmic Slop, detective fiction, Easy Rawlins, fantasy, Great American Migration, Octavia Butler, race in fiction, Samuel Delany, science fiction, snitches, speculative fiction, time travel, UbD, Understanding by Design, Walter Mosley

“Mystery and Detective Literature Activities” “That’s Elementary, My Dear Watson”

Karen J. Burrell
Keywords: literacy, literature activities, literature genres, problem solving

Employing Science Fiction to Increase Literacy in the Science Classroom

Cristobal Carambo
Keywords: Science, science fiction, science literacy

A Brave New World?

Nicole Flores
Keywords: literacy, literacy skills, Parable of the Sower, Reading, science fiction, The Giver

You Lookin’ For Me?

Glenza Lowman
Keywords: Black history, Black History month, writing

An Alien in the Cotton Fields: 47 by Walter Mosley

Joan Taylor
Keywords: cotton fields, Literature, Slavery, social realism, Walter Mosley

Animal & Plant Electricity

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

LEED, Leadership in engineering and Environmental Design. Helping Student to Understand Energy and the Light Pollution

Mark Marshall
Keywords: electricity, engineering, environmental design, LEED, power, Technology

The Overreach of the American Empire in the War for Vietnam

Sydney Hunt Coffin
Keywords: American empire, American History, Memorial Day, vietnam war

Bomba and Chicken: Afro-Latinas in the United States

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe
Keywords: Afro latinas, Afro-latin culture, Bomba, Bomba dance, chicken

Causes of the Haitian Revolution revealed in primary sources and its challenges on a fragile structure of an imperialist nation

Kathleen Radebaugh
Keywords: Creole, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialist, Politics

Why Isn’t Puerto Rico a State Yet?

Meagan C. Rubino
Keywords: American empire, American History, Empire, Puerto Rico

From Trade to Plastic: The Evolution of Money in America

Terry Anne Wildman
Keywords: financial health, money, piggy bank, savings, trade, trading

2014


You’re OK, I’m OK, It’s Good We Are Different

Elters, Pamela
Keywords: differences, literacy, similarities, tolerance