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Seminar: Native American Voices: The People – Here and Now


The Navajo Code Talkers

Richard P. Holmes 2014
Keywords: Code Breakers, Native American, Navajo, World War II

Seminar: Our Earth, A Fragile Home


When Batteries Die, Do They Go to Heaven?

Bruce S. Karpe 2016
Keywords: batteries, Chemistry, Electronic Waste, Environmental Science, High School, Physical Science, recycling, Science, sustainability, trash

Climate Change and My World

Jaimie Piotrowicz 2016
Keywords: atmosphere, carbon dioxide, climate change, emissions, greenhouse gas, Natural resources, pollution, temperature

Seminar: Penn Laboratory on Energy, Sustainability and Environment


The Electrochemistry of Cell Phone Batteries

Joseph L. Hill, Jr. 2015
Keywords: batteries, battery, Danielson, Electrochemistry, lithium ion, oxidation, reduction, voltaic cell

What Did that Cell Phone Really Cost?

Alena Newpher-Lockard 2015
Keywords: cell phones, energy, sustainability, Technology

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


How Do We Envision A More Sustainable And Just Philadelphia?

Dr. Joe Alberti 2023
Keywords: Air Pollution, fossil fuels, Renewable and Non-renewable Energy, solar energy, sustainability

Environmental Justice in Philadelphia

Deborah Wei 2023
Keywords: community organizing, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, Philadelphia refineries, power analysis, racism, stakeholders

Natural Tendencies

Maya Bhagat 2023
Keywords: Lenape, Philadelphia, Place-based, sustainability

Seminar: Robotics for Everyone!


Increasing Student Awareness of STEM Careers in High School Science

Stuart Surrey 2014
Keywords: career, Environmental Science, Physical Science, robotics, Robots, Science, Scientific inquiry, STEM Careers

Introduction to Coding: Computer Programming and Robotics

Ambra Hook 2014
Keywords: coding, gaming, Lego, Mindstorm, NXT, programming sprites, robotics, Scratch, STEM

Influencing Environmental Policy with Real Data

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

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

Seminar: Teaching the Holocaust: Bearing Witness


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

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


The Music of New Orleans and How It Shaped Its Culture

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

Seminar: The Evolving Universe


Nuclear Fusion in the Cosmos and the Chemistry Curriculum

Alex Leed 2016
Keywords: astronomy, Chemistry, Fusion, High School, Physical Science, stellar evolution

Seminar: The Science, Engineering, and Operation of Drones


Introduction to Drones- Flying and Coding Skills for the 21st Century Middle School Learner

Justin Guida 2023
Keywords: classroom, coding, Drone, drones, education, flight, flying, Middle School, robotics, Robots, school, Science, STEAM, STEM, students, Technology, UAV

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 2023
Keywords: autonomous flight, Blockly, CoDrone EDU, Drone, programming, RPA, UAS, UAV