Unit Title	Author
2023
DuBois and the Seventh Ward: A Study of The Philadelphia Negro and Its Counternarrative of Black People’s Evolution in Urban America	Ryann Rouse
Keywords: author’s purpose, cite evidence, Compare and contrast, high school ELA, historical fiction, informational text analysis, Philadelphia, primary sources, Seventh Ward, social science, summarization, The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. DuBois
A Healthy Me is a Better Me	Marie P. Clarke
Keywords: airways, allergy, asthma, pollution, respiratory, triggers, wheezing asthma attack
Should the US Military Use Drones in Wartime?	Ariel Coff
Keywords: coding, debate, drones, electromagnetism, energy waves, ethics, experimental design, fields of force, fluid dynamics, forces and motion, Investigation, model, Newton’s Laws, Research, robotics, scientific argument, Technology
The School on Greenberg Street: Using The Philadelphia Negro and The House on Mango Street as models to tell the story of a neighborhood	Katherine Cohen Volin
Keywords: 7th Ward, The House on Mango Street, The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. Du Bois
How Do We Envision A More Sustainable And Just Philadelphia?	Dr. Joe Alberti
Keywords: Air Pollution, fossil fuels, Renewable and Non-renewable Energy, solar energy, sustainability
Building an Environmentally Equitable Community One School at Time	Tia Graves
Keywords: Climate Justice/Racism, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Equity, green stormwater infrastructure, Mitigation, resilience, Sea Level Rise, Urban Heat Island Adaptation
Where Does All the Water Go?	John Daniel Hartzog
Keywords: global warming, Green Infrastructure, sustainability, Urban Landscape, water cycle
Soundtrack to Our Class: Reading, Writing, and Speaking about Music	Emma Connolly
Keywords: community building, English Language Arts, figurative language, Identity, Middle School, Reading, social-emotional learning, theme, writing
Imagine a Day Without Clean Water: Middle School English Language Learners Advocate for Clean Water for All	Sondra Gonzalez
Keywords: clean water, English language learners, lead, water contaminants, water scarcity, water treatment plant
Climate Justice and Jurassic Park	Renae Curless
Keywords: climate change, climate justice, ELA, English, environmentalism, High School, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, science fiction
Operation DroneDrop: A study into drones; their capabilities, governmental regulation and ethical considerations; with a deeper dive into drone usage in search and rescue operations	Katherine Smith
Keywords: autonomous flight, Blockly, CoDrone EDU, Drone, programming, RPA, UAS, UAV
Hip Hop Hope: Unlocking English Language Learning with Rhythms and Rhymes	Rebecca Horner
Keywords: brain, Color Vowel Approach, healing, hip-hop, movement, Music
The Power of Sustainability: Growing Climate Problem Solvers	Anna Herman
Keywords: climate change, climate optimism, food security, food systems, food waste, sustainability, urban agriculture, urban foodshed, Wicked Problem
Environmental Justice in Philadelphia	Deborah Wei
Keywords: community organizing, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Philadelphia refineries, power analysis, racism, stakeholders
Songs in the Key of MY Life	Nicole Flores
Keywords: literacy, lyrics, Morning Meeting, Music, Playlists, Socio-emotional Learning, The Brain
Natural Tendencies	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: Lenape, Philadelphia, Place-based, sustainability
2022
Cantor Sets: Functions in the Infinite Realm	Samuel Paul Hickok
Keywords: Cantor, Cantor sets, cardinality, functions, infinite sets, infinity, irrational, natural numbers, rational
Latin Asians: Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in Latin America	Alisha Davis
Keywords: Culture, ethnicity, High School, Identity, Latino, panethnicity, project based learning, race, social studies education
Engaging Philadelphia’s Ward System: How democratic is our system?	Charlie McGeehan
Keywords: authentic assessment, civics, democracy, Government, Inquiry, interview, local politics
The Mystery of Dividing by Zero	Catherine Michini
Keywords: Division, division by grouping, division by repeated subtraction, infinity, math history, number representation, operations with zero, undefined