Unit Title	Author
2023
Trauma, Music, and Healing: The Power of Music to Transform a Classroom	Charlette Walker
Keywords: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), digital literacy, ELA, Emotional Health, mental health, Middle School, Music, resilience, social-emotional learning (SEL), toxic stress, Trauma, writing
A Healthy Me is a Better Me	Marie P. Clarke
Keywords: airways, allergy, asthma, pollution, respiratory, triggers, wheezing asthma attack
Elevating Education: The Impact of Drones on 21st Century Learning	Charlette Walker
Keywords: coding, CoDrone EDU, digital literacy, DJI Tello drones, drone applications, drone careers, DroneBlocks, drones, ELA, Google Sites, Google Slides, Middle School, Research, Scratch, STEM
Should the US Military Use Drones in Wartime?	Ariel Coff
Keywords: coding, debate, drones, electromagnetism, energy waves, ethics, experimental design, fields of force, fluid dynamics, forces and motion, Investigation, model, Newton’s Laws, Research, robotics, scientific argument, Technology
Exposure: Lead in Philadelphia	Chloe Glynn
Keywords: children’s health, environmental hazards, environmental justice, exposure model of disease, industrial disease, lead, Philadelphia history
2021
What Happens After the Water Leaves the Sky?	Aisha Kittrell
Keywords: hydrologic cycle, run-off, storm drain, stormwater, the water cycle, water filtration, water pollution, water quality
Environmental Health in the Classroom	Kimberly Sweeney
Keywords: conservation, contamination, plastic pollution, water cycle, water pollution
Freshwater In Our World: Philadelphia’s Freshwater Supply and the Role We Each Play in its Future	Phyllis Hurwitz
Keywords: climate change, distribution of water, hydrologic cycle, impermeable sources, philadelphia middle school science, urban watershed, water, water pollution
Changing Technology for a Changing Climate: Knowledge is not always power, but power is rarely ignorant	Chloe Glynn
Keywords: climate change, critical minerals, environment, fossil fuels, geopolitics, green technology, greenhouse gases, hands-on experiments, power, renewable energy, social media
The Museum of Gold	Kristin Nakaishi
Keywords: economics, geology, gold, minerals, Sociology
Sustainable? Systemic Dis-illusions?	Maya Bhagat
Keywords: critical metals, rare earth metals, sustainability, systems
Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language	Greg Probst
Keywords: Art, artifacts, community, Creative Writing, Culture, English Language Arts, High School, Indigenous, individuality, louise erdrich, Native American, Navajo, neoindigenous, philly, poetry, Pueblo, society, south philadelphia, southwestern
Critical Metals and Their Real-World Applications	Ariel Coff
Keywords: earth metals, mining, periodic table
Weaving for Healing and Connection	Karen Rufino
Keywords: Diné, Hozhó, Native American, Navajo, reservation, Spider Woman, tribe, weabing
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