Unit Title	Author
2023
“Rare Ability and Devotion”: Elizabeth Tyler, first visiting Black nurse of Philadelphia, as Counter-Narrative	Danina Garcia
Keywords: African American History, Henrietta Lacks, Medical History, Medicine, Nursing History, Philadelphia, Tuberculosis
What is Home?	Jeannette Moon
Keywords: Du Bois, Genre Analysis, Hansberry, Home, mapping, maps, Raisin in the Sun, Seventh Ward, storytelling, survey, Wayward Lives
A Class Act	Margo A. Pinckney
Keywords: data collection, race relations
Unraveling the Block: DuBois, The Seventh Ward and Our Responsibility	Tyriese James Holloway
Keywords: activism, Heterogeneity, Place, Protagonism, space
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
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
Songs in the Key of MY Life	Nicole Flores
Keywords: literacy, lyrics, Morning Meeting, Music, Playlists, Socio-emotional Learning, The Brain
What Happens When High School Students Study the Role of Trauma in Black Art	Geoffrey Winikur
Keywords: Black Art, Black Lives Matter, brain science, generational trauma, hip-hop, Music, racial violence, Trauma, white supremacy
Music History from Philadelphia and the Emotional Being and Effect of Music on the Brain	Michelle Jackson
Keywords: brain, Emotional Being, local artists, local history, Music, Music History, Philadelphia, public schools
MUSIC IS… JOY! LOVE! HEALING!	Karen Brinkley
Keywords: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Music, Philadelphia International Records
Equipping the Canary to be an Agent of Change: Educating Students to be Activists	Alima McKnight
Keywords: ADVOCATE, CHANGE AGENT, lead, lead poisoning
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
Student Voice: Asthma in OUR World	Amelia Butler
Keywords: asthma, asthma attack, asthma triggers, breathing, chronic, environment, environmental, inhaler, irritants, Respiration, symptoms, triggers, wheezing
Compounded Environmental Injustice requires Compounded Solutions	Theresa Eck
Keywords: action learning, advocacy, asthma, civic action, civics, environmental justice, Environmental Racism, local government, pollution
Introduction to Drones- Flying and Coding Skills for the 21st Century Middle School Learner	Justin Guida
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
Keywords: autonomous flight, Blockly, CoDrone EDU, Drone, programming, RPA, UAS, UAV
Sustainability is the Name of the Game!	Alima McKnight
Keywords: climate change, digital native, elementary, engagement, game based theory, gamification, motivation, pollution, solution, sustainability
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
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Making of Accordion Books, Data Portraits, and People Places	Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
Keywords: 7th Ward, Accordion Books, Data Portraits, Data visualization, Placemaking, Social Epidemiology, The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. Du Bois
Music’s Effect on Community Resilience	Theresa Eck
Keywords: Advanced Placement U.S. History aka APUSH, analyzing historical evidence, free black communities in the early republic, Music, music’s effect on history, Philadelphia history, social emotional learning in history