Unit Title	Author
2009
Is Seeing Believing?	Rita Sorrentino
Keywords: camera, digital age, photography
How Do You Know Anything About the Civil War?	Meagan C. McGowan
Keywords: Civil War, History, How do you know?
Bone, Muscle and Prosthetic Unit for Surfaces and Nanotechnology	Nancy Baulis
Keywords: bones, muscles, Nanotechnology, prosthetics
2008
Germantown PA: Researching the Great Road Welcome Mat	Barbara McDowell Dowdall
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
Keywords: clothing trade in Africa, commerce, commercial influence, cultural imperialism, data analysis, History, migration, personal narrative, Philadelphia, worker migration
The Immigrant Journey to Philadelphia	Jonathan Williams
Keywords: American History, cultural opposition, Europe to Philadelphia, Golden Door, immigrant experience in Philadelphia, immigrants, immigrants journey, Lazaretto, social studies
The Peopling of Philadelphia: 19th Century Immigration	Mona Kolsky
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
Keywords: apprentice, apprenticeships, bound labor, Colonial Philadelphia, immigrants, indentured servants, Philadelphia, redemptioners, servitude, workforce
Sew Me a Story: African and African American “Quilt Lore”	Kelly Graham
Keywords: African American History, American History, elementary school, human experience, quilt, Quilt Lore, quilting, stories and designs, storytelling
Using Elder Stories to Understand the Continuity of History	Meagan C. McGowan
Keywords: broader historical narratives, folk lore, folk lorists, local resources, make history relevant, Reading, stories of elders
The African, Caribbean and African American Cultural Connection	Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: aesthetic values, African, African American, Black Atlantic, connect to Africa, cultural expression, dance, Food, interlinked groups, language, Music, pride, shared African background, shared awareness
Kids Love Stories	Nan Richmond
Keywords: attitudes towards young and old people, celebrations, community culture, evaluate, folktales, games, heroes, interactional routines, language arts, language of origin, local settings, problem solving, relating to life, retelling, social studies, Technology, values
Philadelphia Stories: African Transitions from West Africa to Philadelphia as a Means to Study Oral Histories	Stephanie R. Wicks
Keywords: African American History, African immigrants in Philadelphia, English, ethnography, historical research, historiography, learn content through oral history, learning history, love of history, love of learning, oral history project, story time, storytelling
Hip Hop Notions	Audrey J. Jackson
Keywords: African American painters, break dancing, Bronx, expressive performance, fashion, hip hop life style, hip-hop, Jamaica, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kingston, listening, rap music, rhyming, speaking, Visual Art, visual graffiti, writing, youth culture
Dissecting Lyrics	Lisa Katzer
Keywords: 4th Grade, 5th grade, display, dissecting lyrics, figurative language, hip-hop, listening skills, meaning and awareness, meaningful learning, perform, rap music, vocabulary, writing poetry
Scratching beyond the Surface: Hip Hop and Its Art of Persuasion	Samuel A. Reed, III
Keywords: commercial and community, Critical thinking, hip-hop, hip-hop lyrics, media literacy, non-print media, persuasion, persuasive digital stories, persuasive techniques, persuasive writing, rap music, Reading, social studies, traditional literacy, writing
Science, Science Fiction and American History	Myrtle Bastien
Keywords: Civil War, fiction, History, invention, ironclad ships, Monitor and Merrimac, naval warfare, science fiction, secret weapon, submarine
Science Through Science Fiction in a Hot Air Balloon	Nancy Baulis
Keywords: aeronautics, air machines, Dirigibles, fantasy, Hindenburg, hot air balloon, Math, Philadelphia Zoo, Science, science fiction, social studies, weather, Wizard of Oz, writing
Possible Worlds (II)	Kate Reber
Keywords: American History, Bloodchild, Brave New World, Humanities, interdisciplinary, Math, possible world, Science, Technology, world history
Science Fiction of the Fifties: Reflections of Cold War Themes	Steven Shust
Keywords: American History, Cold War, cold war culture, cold war politics, cold war technology, conformity, control, destruction through the lens of science fiction, fear, films, History, novels, science fiction, themes of alientation