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All TIP Curriculum UnitsView by: Year | Seminar

Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Robots in Healthcare: From Science Fiction to Reality


Humans, Robots & Machines: Simplifying The Lives of Our Community

Kelli Gallagher 2018
Keywords: Healthcare, Machines, Mechanics, Robots, rube goldberg, Science, simple machines, STEM

Seminar: Roots of the American Empire


The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on 18th Century Philadelphia

Keysiah M. Middleton 2015
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 2015
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 2015
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 2015
Keywords: hip-hop, History, language arts, Music, Slaves, songs, spirituals

How to Win a War Without Even Shooting: Haitian Revolution Strategy

Lynn Gourinski Fahr 2015
Keywords: cholera, disease preventions, Haiti, high school history, History, middle school history, revolution strategies, yellow fever

The Overreach of the American Empire in the War for Vietnam

Sydney Hunt Coffin 2015
Keywords: American empire, American History, Memorial Day, vietnam war

Bomba and Chicken: Afro-Latinas in the United States

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2015
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 2015
Keywords: Creole, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialist, Politics

Why Isn’t Puerto Rico a State Yet?

Meagan C. Rubino 2015
Keywords: American empire, American History, Empire, Puerto Rico

From Trade to Plastic: The Evolution of Money in America

Terry Anne Wildman 2015
Keywords: financial health, money, piggy bank, savings, trade, trading

Seminar: Social Justice, Monuments, Museums, and Heritage


Philly Proud: Researching the Cultural History of Philadelphia and How Children See Themselves

Karenin Loinaz
Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Frank Rizzo, Philadelphia, south philadelphia, Southwark

Connecting with our Community: Public Art, Monuments, and Social Justice

Alison Marzuoli
Keywords: Abstract Sculpture, Monuments, Public Art, social justice

Whose Cultural Heritage?

Tia D. Larese
Keywords: Cultural, Digital Learning, diversity, elementary, ELL, English language learners, heritage, Immigrant, Indigenous Voices, Misrepresentation, Monument, Mural, Representation

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