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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Planning for a Sustainable, Environmentally Just, and Climate-Ready Philadelphia


Building an Environmentally Equitable Community One School at Time

Tia Graves 2023
Keywords: Climate Justice/Racism, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Equity, green stormwater infrastructure, Mitigation, resilience, Sea Level Rise, Urban Heat Island Adaptation

Seminar: Renewable Energy Schemes


How do renewable energy sources reduce our reliance on fossil fuel sources of energy?

Dr. Joe Alberti 2021
Keywords: energy, fossil fuel, middle school science, renewable energy

Seminar: Robotics for Everyone!


Influencing Environmental Policy with Real Data

Meagan C. Rubino 2014
Keywords: Energy Efficiency, Environmental Science, Government, History, legislation

Seminar: Roots of the American Empire


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 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

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: 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

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

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

Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language

Greg Probst 2021
Keywords: Art, artifacts, community, Creative Writing, Culture, English Language Arts, High School, Indigenous, individuality, louise erdrich, Native American, Navajo, neoindigenous, philly, poetry, Pueblo, society, south philadelphia, southwestern

Weaving for Healing and Connection

Karen Rufino 2021
Keywords: Diné, Hozhó, Native American, Navajo, reservation, Spider Woman, tribe, weabing

Telling Stories and Making Connections Through Clay

Katherine Steiner 2021
Keywords: Art, clay, Indigenous Pottery, pottery, Pueblo, storytelling

Seminar: Storytelling Traditions of South Asia and the Middle East


Exploring Culture and Storytelling with Fairy Tales

Cher Baylor 2019
Keywords: Culture, fairy tales, social studies, storytelling

Digital Passport: Exploring geography through folktales and digital storytelling

Tia D. Larese 2019
Keywords: folktales, Geography, stories, storytelling

Seminar: Surfaces, Technology and Life


Bone, Muscle and Prosthetic Unit for Surfaces and Nanotechnology

Nancy Baulis 2009
Keywords: bones, muscles, Nanotechnology, prosthetics