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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Penn Laboratory on Energy, Sustainability and Environment


What Is It Like to Live Without Electricity?

Catherine Michini 2015
Keywords: choice boards, data displays, electricity, Environmental Science, physics, probability, Probability and Statistics, quantitative tools, real world problems, scientific context, Statistics

What Did that Cell Phone Really Cost?

Alena Newpher-Lockard 2015
Keywords: cell phones, energy, sustainability, Technology

What a Waste!

Tiffany Moyer 2015
Keywords: literacy, litter, Math, recycling, Science, social studies, trash, waste

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

Matt Hunn 2015
Keywords: algebra, economic sustainability, functions, intercepts, linear equations, slope, unit rates

Five Earths

Alexander Maxfield Arnosky 2015
Keywords: being “the other”, ethics, science fiction, social commentary, time travel

Conservation: The Thermodynamics of Sustainability

Klint Kanopka 2015
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

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

Mark Marshall 2015
Keywords: electricity, engineering, environmental design, LEED, power, Technology

Seminar: Philadelphia and the Immigrant Experience


Latino Immigrants and Communities in Philadelphia

Alison McCartney 2008
Keywords: building community, Critical thinking, Culture, English, group work, immigration process, interdisciplinary skills, Latino, Latinos in Philadelphia, Puerto Rico, social studies, stereotypes, World Language

Statistics of Immigration in Philadelphia

Anatol Kondili 2008
Keywords: Algebra 2, analyze, central tendency, charts, Data, flux of immigrants, history of immigration, predictions, rates of immigration, samples of population, sampling method, Statistics

Germantown PA: Researching the Great Road Welcome Mat

Barbara McDowell Dowdall 2008
Keywords: 9th grade, African, Daniel Pastorious, Dutch trading company, English 1, Germantown, Irish, Italian, Philadelphia

Give and Take from the Great Demographic Fact: A Vagarious Look At Commercial Influence over Cultural Exchange in 20th- and 21st-century Philadelphia

Chadd S. Johnson 2008
Keywords: clothing trade in Africa, commerce, commercial influence, cultural imperialism, data analysis, History, migration, personal narrative, Philadelphia, worker migration

The Latest Refugees: A New Wave from Africa

Cheryl L. Fox 2008
Keywords: Africa, Afro-American, civil unrest, economic migrants, economics, nationality, political opinion, political unrest, race, refugee, religion

The Immigrant Journey to Philadelphia

Jonathan Williams 2008
Keywords: American History, cultural opposition, Europe to Philadelphia, Golden Door, immigrant experience in Philadelphia, immigrants, immigrants journey, Lazaretto, social studies

La Gente De Latinoamérica En Filadelfia

Michael Steele-Eytle 2008
Keywords: Caribbean, Central America, Hispanic presence, immigrants, immigration, Latinos in Philadelphia, lectura, Level Two Spanish, Mexico, South America, Spanish

The Peopling of Philadelphia: 19th Century Immigration

Mona Kolsky 2008
Keywords: 19th Century Immigration, advertisements, Graphs, industrial city, Lazaretto Quarantine Station, national trends, Philadelphia, photographs, political cartoons, ship manifests, stereotyping

Bound Labor in Philadelphia

Sandy O’Keefe 2008
Keywords: apprentice, apprenticeships, bound labor, Colonial Philadelphia, immigrants, indentured servants, Philadelphia, redemptioners, servitude, workforce

Crossing Borders and Crossing Time: A Tableau of African Immigration and Migration in America

Stacia D. Parker 2008
Keywords: Africa, African Diaspora, cultural traditions, Culture, immigrants, journey, languages, Liberia, memoirs, migrants, migratory experiences, oral history, Senegal, Sierra Leone, social traditions, trasnformation, tribes, world history

Seminar: Philadelphia: A 300-Year History


The Black Press and the Philadelphia Tribune

Florence B. Oliver 2006
Keywords: Democratic Society, Media, Philadelphia Tribune, Press, society

The Evolution of Law Enforcement in Philadelphia

Tim Woods 2006
Keywords: Criminal Justice, Philadelphia Law Enforcement, Philadelphia Police Department, Police, PPD, United States Government

Lenni-Lenape (Delaware) Indians’ History, Culture and Food

Nancy Baulis 2006
Keywords: beans, Corn, Culture, Growing of Food, History, Lenni-Lenape People, Philadelphia Region, Plant