Unit Title	Author
2020
How Can We Expect Them to Stand Up in a Crooked Room?	Regina Hastings
Keywords: cinema, communications, film, Media, Pop culture, Reading, Sociology, writing
2019
Dawning of A Sunrise	Valerie Adams
Keywords: Critical thinking, Drama, ELA, fables, folktales, frame story, frame tale, Middle East, multi-intelligence, narrative, pair, Personal Identity, poetry, Reading, share, short stories, South Asia, storytelling, think, writing
The Art of Literature: Visual Stimuli that Constructs Communication	Silvino J. Alexander Jr.
Keywords: "Third Space" Paradigm, Art, comic books, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP), History, literacy, poetry, THAL (Technology
2017
How Does One Achieve the Good Life?	Colleen Lawson-Thornton
Keywords: Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, close reading, collaborative learning, contemplative practices, Cornell notes, Daoism, discussion board, Eastern philosophy, Eastern religion, Eightfold Path, experiential learning, Four Noble Truths, Good Life, happiness, Hinduism, Meditation, philosophy, tai chi, Tao of Pooh, Tao Te Ching, Upanishads, walking meditation, yoga, zine
Jazz as Black History: Teaching African American History Through Musicology	Matthew Menschner
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
From Civil Rights to #BlackLivesMatter: The Music Is the Movement	Amanda Schear
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights Movement, Compare and contrast, Informational text, literacy, Music, Protest movements, Protest music, Social change, social justice
Investigating Religious and Cultural Spending Trends	Catherine Michini
Keywords: cross, Culture, Social and cross-cultural skills, social studies, World religions
Be the Hero of Your Journey	Terry Anne Wildman
Keywords: Creative Writing, History, Literature
Life on Spinning Rocks	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: alien, astronomy, Earth Science, geology, planets
Creating Life!	Nicole Flores
Keywords: astronomy, Earth Science, Science, Space Science
Models on Earth and Space	Amatise Ponzo
Keywords: Earth Science, listening, Reading, Space Science
Probability and the Observable Universe	Bridget Mason
Keywords: astronomy, combination, compound probability, counting principle, dependent events, experimental Probability, habitable planets, habitable zone, independent events, multiplication, mutually exclusive events, overlapping events, permutation, probability, sample space, Theoretical probability
Volcano Folklore vs. Reality	Tia D. Larese
Keywords: Chemistry, earth sciences, geology, volcano
Music as Activism: Warrior’s Don’t Cry and Protest in the Civil Rights Movement	Renae Curless
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Civil Rights Movement, integration, little rock, melba patillo beals, Music, poetry, racism, segregation
Watch Out! It’s an Earthquake!	Monique Henry
Keywords: Earth disruptions, Earth Science, Earthquakes, occurrences, Philadelphia School District of Philadelphia
2016
Have You Ever Told That Story Before? Student Biographers Asking Important Life Questions, Preserving Memories and Writing History	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: biography, elementary, language arts, social studies, writing
Sisters in the Shadows: Black Women During the Black Arts Movement	Kristian Ali
Keywords: black arts movement, black women, English, feminism, gender awareness, High School, language arts, movement, revolution, self-awareness, social justice
“Men of Bronze”: Reflecting on Legacy of the Hellfighters of Harlem	Tara Ann Carter
Keywords: African Americans, comic books, English, graphic novels, Harlem Hellfighters, History, Max Brooks, Military History, New York, primary source documents, Secondary Source Documents, Sociology, soldiers, The Great Migration, World War I, Writing Workshop
Finding Freedom—Heroes of the Underground Railroad	Lynn Gourinski Fahr
Keywords: Harriet Tubman, James Still, Thomas Garrett, Underground Railroad
Are They REALLY That Different?	Nicole Flores
Keywords: Compare, elementary, English, Fifth-Grade, Literature, poetry, social studies