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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

Climate Justice and Jurassic Park

Renae Curless 2023
Keywords: climate change, climate justice, ELA, English, environmentalism, High School, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, science fiction

Natural Tendencies

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

Sustainability is the Name of the Game!

Alima McKnight 2023
Keywords: climate change, digital native, elementary, engagement, game based theory, gamification, motivation, pollution, solution, sustainability

Seminar: Robotics for Everyone!


Engineering Physics: Modding and Making

Klint Kanopka 2014
Keywords: 3d, 3d carving, 3d printing, advanced placement, advanced placement physics, ap, ap physics, Arduino, building, CAD, construction, design, design thinking, engineering, fabrication, maker, makered, makerspace, making, Math, mathematics, physics, problem based learning, problem solving, project based learning, robot, robotics, Science, tools

Seminar: Roots of the American Empire


Our Songs, Our Story: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop- The Use of Music in the African-American Culture

Jada L. Warfield-Henry 2015
Keywords: hip-hop, History, language arts, Music, Slaves, songs, spirituals

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

Seminar: Southwest Native American Art & Culture


Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language

Greg Probst 2021
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

Weaving for Healing and Connection

Karen Rufino 2021
Keywords: Diné, Hozhó, Native American, Navajo, reservation, Spider Woman, tribe, weabing

Seminar: Storytelling Traditions of South Asia and the Middle East


Dawning of A Sunrise

Valerie Adams 2019
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

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

Bearing Witness: Understanding Holocaust Testimony Within Urban High School Students’ Lives

Lynn Gourinski Fahr 2014
Keywords: bystander, elementary, English, Holocaust, Literature, upstander

Students are Survivors Too: Bearing Witness to the Stories of Our Lives Through Holocaust Survivor Testimony

Eilis Hood 2014
Keywords: European history, Holocaust, witness testimony, writing

Consider, is this a Man? Retaining Humanity in the Face of Dehumanizing Narratives

Benjamin Hover 2014
Keywords: bearing witness, Common Core Standards, Concentration Camps, Death Fugue, Holocaust Literature, Holocaust Music, Literature, Middle Years Literacy, Resistance to Nazis, survivor testimony

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

I, Too, Bear Witness: An Analysis of Dehumanization through Testimonies of the Holocaust

Margery Willis 2014
Keywords: active listening, Auschwitz, bearing witness, close reading, dehumanization, memoirs, survivor testimony, The Holocaust, USC Shoah Foundation, video testimony

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

From Civil Rights to #BlackLivesMatter: The Music Is the Movement

Amanda Schear 2017
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

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