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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Teaching Science with Science Fiction


Science, Science Fiction and American History

Myrtle Bastien 2008
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 2008
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 2008
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 2008
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

Seminar: Teaching the Holocaust: Bearing Witness


You’re OK, I’m OK, It’s Good We Are Different

Elters, Pamela 2014
Keywords: differences, literacy, similarities, tolerance

One Story, Innumerable Losses: Themes in Genocide

Brynn Allison McGinn 2014
Keywords: close reading, genocide, History, Holocaust, Literature, Rwanda, witness testimonies, writing

In their Shoes: Teaching the Holocaust through the Journey of a Chain of Witnesses, Survivors, and Rescuers

Stacia D. Parker 2014
Keywords: advocacy, bearing witness, History, rescuers, survivors, testimony, world history

Teaching the Holocaust in Kindergarten Classrooms

Krista Spera 2014
Keywords: 20th century, discrimination, Holocaust, Holocaust education, kindergarten

Heart to Heart: Adolescents Connect to Holocaust Survivors

Joan Taylor 2014
Keywords: History, Holocaust, survivors, video transcripts

Seminar: That's My Song! Musical Genre as Social Contract


Jazz as Black History: Teaching African American History Through Musicology

Matthew Menschner 2017
Keywords: African American History, American History, Bebop, Grades 9-12, Jazz, Jazz History, Jazz Studies, Literature, Music History, Music Studies, Musicology, Swing Music, The Harlem Renaissance, The Jazz Age, World War II

The Music of New Orleans and How It Shaped Its Culture

Chanelle Harley 2017
Keywords: History, Reading, social studies, writing

Music as Activism: Warrior’s Don’t Cry and Protest in the Civil Rights Movement

Renae Curless 2017
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Civil Rights Movement, integration, little rock, melba patillo beals, Music, poetry, racism, segregation

Seminar: The Aesthetics of Hip Hop


Hip Hop Notions

Audrey J. Jackson 2008
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 2008
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 2008
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

Seminar: The City in History


A History of Philadelphia: Redlining and the Founding Ideals of Democracy

Alexander de Arana 2020
Keywords: democracy, History, Philadelphia, social science

Planting the Seeds of Responsibility and Growing Citizens

Alima McKnight 2020
Keywords: African Americans, change, citizen, citizenship, Government, rights, society, voting

Establishing Inclusion and Belonging in a Globalized City

Amanda Fiegel 2020
Keywords: belonging, brain drain, brain waste, care drain, city space, Culture, discrimination, globalization, Identity, immigration, Marxism, public and private spheres, push and pull factors, Social Identity Theory, spatial immobility, structural violence and, xenophobia

Heritage or Renewal: The Impacts of Gentrification

Matthew Menschner 2020
Keywords: gentrification, heritage, local history, Philadelphia Neighborhoods

Studying Mexico City Through Many Layers

Meghan Agnew 2020
Keywords: city systems, Mexico city, Mexico history