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All TIP Curriculum UnitsView by: Year | Seminar

Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Social Justice, Monuments, Museums, and Heritage


Evaluate the Power of a “Heart on Fire”

Theresa Eck 2022
Keywords: analyzing historical evidence, APUSH, challenging dominant narratives, dominant narrative, HIPP, nation state, progressivism, Reconstruction

Old City Philadelphia

Mary Patricia Lavin 2022

Blood Money – The Making of Philadelphia’s Heroes

Deborah Wei 2022

Who Tells Your Story? The Power of Debate and Discourse in the High School Classroom

Katherine Steiner 2022
Keywords: Christopher Columbus, debate, High School, Monument, Mural, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rocky

Indigenous Voices: Crossroads between Monuments and Trees

Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau 2022
Keywords: Crazy Horse, indigenous people, Little Bighorn Battlefield., Monuments, Mount Rushmore, Penn Treaty Tree

Don Quixote, the Impossible Dream, and the American Street Empowerment Zone

Jenifer Félix 2022
Keywords: Bilingual, Don Quijote, Don Quixote, Emigration, Empowerment Zones, Kensington, Monuments and Statues, Philadelphia Geography, Philadelphia history, Representation, Spanish as a Heritage Language, Spanish as a Native Language

Monuments, Museums and Murals: An Impact on Individual Identity

Jennifer Gallagher
Keywords: Culture, heritage, identity and social justice, memorial, Monument, Mural, museum, statue, symbol

Seminar: Soft Robots


Makerspaces: Where Precision and Play Intersect

Katherine Steiner 2022
Keywords: collaboration, creative, creativity, High School, lessons, makerspace, play, problem solving, robot, soft robots, visual arts

Soft Robotics: An Introduction to Design Methodology and Engineering

Jessica Duong 2022
Keywords: design, engineering, methodology, process, robot, robotics

Exploring Soft Robotics Through the Movie Big Hero 6

Charlette Walker 2022
Keywords: Big Hero 6, digital literacy, English Language Arts, Google suite, robotics, soft robotics, soft robots, Technology

Bio-Design Fabrication and Soft Robots

Christopher Sweeney 2022
Keywords: Bio-Design, Bio-Fabrication, design, Digital Fabrication, Mycelium, robotics, Robots, soft robotics

Soft Robotics

Maya Bhagat 2022
Keywords: engineering design, origami, soft robots

The Power of Innovation in Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources

Anna Herman 2022
Keywords: agriculture history, agriculture technology, farming, farming technology, food production, food technology, innovation, iteration, urban agriculture

Seminar: Southwest Native American Art & Culture


Representing our Blessings on Pottery Inspired by Southwestern Native American Art

Allison Aubry 2021
Keywords: Art, blessings, clay tools, coil pot, motif, narrative, Native American, pinch pot, pottery, pottery wheel, Pueblo Pottery, secondary, slab, symbolism, symbols, well wishes

Form, Function and Symbolism: Art of The Pueblo Peoples

Kimberley Colasante 2021
Keywords: Acoma, Ancestral Pueblo, Cochiti, Jason Garcia, Maria Martinez, Pueblo Pottery, Pueblo revolt, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Santa Clara Pueblo, Santa Domingo Pueblo, Taos, Tewa, Zuni

The Navajo, the Pueblos and Me

Jennifer Gallagher 2021
Keywords: “The Long Walk”, Art, clay, fry bread, hogan, Native Americans, Navajo, pottery, Pueblo, Southwest, textiles, tradition and culture, weaving

Does Breaking It Down, Break It?: A look at holism’s effect on Euro/Indigenous Relations

Theresa Lord 2021
Keywords: analytic, colonization, divergent worldviews, Holistic, indigenous/U.S. relations, Navajo, primary sources, Pueblo, secondary sources, thesis writing

Honoring Ancestral Cultural Traditions and Finding Community in Contemporary Life through Art Making

Alison Marzuoli 2021
Keywords: Choice Based Art Education, Ethnographic Study, high school art, Navajo Jewelry, Navajo Weaving, Pueblo Pottery, Southwest Native American Art, Southwest Native Americans

Tangible History: Engaging Students Through Art of Indigenous Cultures

Alima McKnight 2021
Keywords: appreciation, appropriation, Art, Blackfoot, Culture, design, hands-on, Indigenous, Native American, Navajo, pottery, Pueblo, symbols, teepees, textiles, weaving

Building Language: Representing and Affirming ELLs’ Home Cultures through Southwest Native American Art

Katie Miller 2021
Keywords: artifacts, English language learners, Indigenous Pottery, language, Navajo, project based learning, Pueblo, Southwest Native American Art, Visual Art Integration, Visual Arts and Language