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    • National Seminars

    Each teacher participating as a National Fellow in a national seminar prepares a curriculum unit to be taught the following year in their school and to be shared with other teachers in the school district and elsewhere.

    Guides to the curriculum units consist of synopses written by their authors and contain recommendations of the school courses and grade levels where the units may best apply.

    Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the Yale National Initiative


    2023

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    Volume 1
    Histories of Art, Race and Empire: 1492-1865
    Preface
    Introduction by Timothy J. Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art
    1.
    Curator as Detective: Looking for Missing Stories in Museums
    Guide Entry
    Amanda McMahon
    2.
    Using Objects and Artifacts to Understand The Crucible
    Guide Entry
    Tara McKee
    3.
    Using art to interpret The Mary Prince- Narrative of a Slave Woman
    Guide Entry
    JD DeReu
    4.
    The Effect of the Navajo Long Walk Through Photos
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Tsosie
    5.
    Colours of Humanity: Artistic representations of the "Other"
    Guide Entry
    Raymond Marshall
    6.
    Clothing and Identity in Early America: Black Women and AmerIndian Men
    Guide Entry
    Melissa Muntz
    7.
    La Francophonie Diverse: French Adjective Agreement Through Art
    Guide Entry
    Brittany Zezima
    8.
    Racialization: Past and Present
    Guide Entry
    Tyriese Holloway
    9.
    Illuminating Gem of the Ocean with Art Representing African Diaspora
    Guide Entry
    Renee Patrick Mutunga
    10.
    This is America: Images and Histories of Racism and Exploitation
    Guide Entry
    Adriana Lopez
    11.
    Perspectives on Race: Slavery and its Legacies in Art
    Guide Entry
    Tina Berry
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    Volume 2
    Writing About Nature
    Preface
    Introduction by Jill Campbell, Professor of English
    1.
    Why Nature? Noticing and Writing in the Wild
    Guide Entry
    Brandon Barr
    2.
    Niños y la Naturaleza: Nature in the World Language Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Holly Bryk
    3.
    Homeland to Hometown: Restorative Awareness in Writing About Nature
    Guide Entry
    Catherine Fee
    4.
    An Inheritance of Cultural Storytelling: Nature-Inspired Paintings
    Guide Entry
    Debra Jenkins
    5.
    Creating First-Class Experiences for Forgotten Schools: Why Not Us?
    Guide Entry
    Sean Means
    6.
    Self-Identity through Nature and Magic
    Guide Entry
    Ricardo Moreno
    7.
    Through the Eyes of a Navajo: Nature Writing
    Guide Entry
    Cheryl Singer
    8.
    Journaling in Nature: Journaling to Improve Observation and Reflection
    Guide Entry
    Christopher Snyder
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    Volume 3
    Transitions in the Conception of Number: From Whole Numbers to Rational Numbers to Algebra
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    Teaching Elementary Fractions Using Fractions Strips
    Guide Entry
    Jessica Mason
    2.
    Using a Length Model of Fractions to Compare Fractions
    Guide Entry
    Irene Jones
    3.
    Money, Money, Money: Decimal Fractions in $ and ¢
    Guide Entry
    Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
    4.
    A Framework for Problem Solving: Schema Development and Discourse
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    5.
    Numerical Development: from whole numbers to fractions
    Guide Entry
    Irina Alekseeva
    6.
    Division of Fractions in Algebra, from real-life applications to abstract equations
    Guide Entry
    Jose Ulises Reveles Ramirez
    7.
    Improving Proportional Reasoning = Improving High School Math Success
    Guide Entry
    Julie Skrzypczak
    8.
    From English to Algebra: Solving Linear Equations with Word Problems
    Guide Entry
    Kristina Kirby
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    Volume 4
    Environmental Justice
    Preface
    Introduction by Jordan Peccia, Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Environmental Engineering
    1.
    We are Not in this Together: The Unequal Impacts of Climate Change
    Guide Entry
    Kariann Flynn
    2.
    Environmental Justice and Land Issues of Indigenous People
    Guide Entry
    Mark Hartung
    3.
    Environmental Injustice in Chicago’s Southwest Side: Pollution, Past and Present
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Ibarra
    4.
    Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
    Guide Entry
    Akela Leach
    5.
    Colored: Environmental Injustice
    Guide Entry
    Gwendolyn Nixon
    6.
    Next Generation Learners to Leaders: Intro to Environmental Justice
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Rorex
    7.
    Environmental Injustice- A Motive for Social Change in the Americas
    Guide Entry
    Danielle Schwartz
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    Volume 5
    Nature-Inspired Solutions to Disease Problems
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul E. Turner, Rachel Carson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    1.
    Biodiversity and Bees in the Primary Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    2.
    Pollination Party
    Guide Entry
    Kirsten Craig
    3.
    Coffee, Cacao, and Chacras – Examining Sustainable Agroecosystems
    Guide Entry
    Michael Doody
    4.
    On the Border of Life: Bacteriophages and Biodiversity
    Guide Entry
    Chloe Glynn
    5.
    Growing A Sustainable Future
    Guide Entry
    Anna Herman
    6.
    Nature Says Do This: Solving Problems by Mimicking Nature
    Guide Entry
    Aliyah Hoye
    7.
    Mimicking Nature to Create a Classroom Culture
    Guide Entry
    Joseph Parrett

    2022

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    Volume 1
    Children and Education in World Cinema
    Preface
    Introduction by Dudley Andrew, R. Selden Rose Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Professor Emeritus of Film Studies
    1.
    The Child Migrant: Evaluating the Journey to the United States through Film and Nonfiction Text
    Guide Entry
    Brandon Barr
    2.
    Film and Art: Setting the Stage with Framing
    Guide Entry
    Tina Berry
    3.
    Social Emotional Learning Through Film
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    4.
    Cultivating a Growth Mindset through Film Studies
    Guide Entry
    Stephany Jimenez
    5.
    Themes in Encanto and Wadjda
    Guide Entry
    Akela Leach
    6.
    Film as a Site for Education and Resistance
    Guide Entry
    Andrew Maples
    7.
    Teaching Writing through Films: A Visual Exploration of Identities
    Guide Entry
    Bradford Pearce
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    Volume 2
    American Global Power from Empire to Superpower
    Preface
    Introduction by David C. Engerman, Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History
    1.
    Let’s Go Bananas! U.S. Imperialism Through the Lens of a Fruit
    Guide Entry
    Sandy Alvarez
    2.
    Public Diplomacy and Consumerism During the Early Cold War
    Guide Entry
    Cinde Berkowitz
    3.
    Imperial Dilemma – Great Society versus Vietnam in the 1960s
    Guide Entry
    Mark Hartung
    4.
    Creating Filipino Nationality: Race and Hierarchy in the Context of Empire (1886-1916)
    Guide Entry
    Melissa Muntz
    5.
    American Imperialism in Latin America: Territory Expansion, Trade, and Immigration
    Guide Entry
    Stephen Straus
    6.
    Immigration narratives: Hidden links between U.S. empire and Filipino immigration to the U.S.
    Guide Entry
    Katherine Volin
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    Volume 3
    The Social Struggles of Contemporary Black Art
    Preface
    Introduction by Roderick A. Ferguson, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and of American Studies
    1.
    Reclaiming the Lost Art of Storytelling Using Textile
    Guide Entry
    Irene Jones
    2.
    “Do you see me?” “I see you.”—Identity and Activism in Black Art
    Guide Entry
    Amy McIntosh
    3.
    The Resiliency of the African American Financial Narrative Presented through Multiple Media of Art
    Guide Entry
    Sean Means
    4.
    Art as Advocacy: Explorations into Literary and Visual Art to Provoke Change
    Guide Entry
    Perrine Punwani
    5.
    Struggle, Defiance, and Triumph: Black Photographers and Their Magic
    Guide Entry
    Katherine Steiner
    6.
    Things Fall Apart: Piecing it all Back Together Using Contemporary Black Art
    Guide Entry
    Tara McKee
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    Volume 4
    Alien Earths
    Preface
    Introduction by Sarbani Basu, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Astronomy
    1.
    To Infinity and Beyond: using non-fiction text and study to promote science-fiction writing
    Guide Entry
    Lauren Freeman
    2.
    The Alien in Your Backyard: Using Exoplanetary Science to Explore the Ecosystems of Earth
    Guide Entry
    Emily Turner
    3.
    Using Out of This World Knowledge to Build Literacy Skills! Space Writer on Board!
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Isaac
    4.
    There’s No “Space” Like Home
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    5.
    An Alien Earth, Far, Far Away!
    Guide Entry
    Malcolm McConner
    6.
    Exploration: The Search for the Next Habitable Planet
    Guide Entry
    Karen Cameron
    7.
    How Gravity Impacts Life
    Guide Entry
    Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
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    Volume 5
    Fires, Floods, and Droughts: Impacts of Climate Change in the U.S.
    Preface
    Introduction by Jordan Peccia, Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Environmental Engineering
    1.
    New Castle and Climate Change – Causes, Evidence, Impacts, and Potential Solutions
    Guide Entry
    Michael Doody
    2.
    Energy Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones: The impacts of climate change
    Guide Entry
    Zachary Meyers
    3.
    The Chemistry of Ocean Acidification and its Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
    Guide Entry
    Eric Lindley
    4.
    Will They Survive? Climate Change and its Impact on Biodiversity
    Guide Entry
    Robert Boughner
    5.
    Graphing the Urban Health Impacts of Rising Temperature, Air Quality and Increased Pollen
    Guide Entry
    Shamira Underwood
    6.
    “To ‘iina ‘ate: Water is Life,” Navajo Farming During a Drought
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Tsosie
    7.
    Climate Change Impact on Agriculture in California
    Guide Entry
    Jhansi Sunkerneni

    2021

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    Volume 1
    U.S. Social Movements through Biography
    Preface
    Introduction by David C. Engerman, Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History
    1.
    Rosa Parks: A Civil Rights Hero
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    2.
    Who Built the American Economy? How Labor Unions Shaped the Early Labor Movement
    Guide Entry
    Alexander de Arana
    3.
    Remembering the Civil War: A Primary Source Comparative Study of Rhetoric and Author Purpose
    Guide Entry
    Kariann Flynn
    4.
    Mobilizing Change: Lessons Learned from Obama’s 2008 Campaign
    Guide Entry
    Sean Means
    5.
    Latinx Biographies and Social Activism: An Untold Latinx History
    Guide Entry
    Cristina Mejia
    6.
    Artist in Action: Examining the Activism of James Weldon Johnson and Augusta Savage
    Guide Entry
    Karen Mullins
    7.
    AIM and Native American political activism in the 20th century
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
    8.
    John Lewis: Examining the Past to Inform Understandings of the Present
    Guide Entry
    Stephen Straus
    9.
    Literary and Historical Reading with Langston Hughes
    Guide Entry
    Alca Usan
    10.
    From Handmaids to Riot Grrrls, using Fiction to Understand Social Movements
    Guide Entry
    Tara McKee
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    Volume 2
    Gender, Race, and Class in Today’s America
    Preface
    Introduction by Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of Political Science
    1.
    Exploring Belonging and Exclusion through Ethnography
    Guide Entry
    Sophia Alvarez
    2.
    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Historical Context through a Critical Lens
    Guide Entry
    Catherine Cunha
    3.
    Family of Empathy
    Guide Entry
    Shaasia Jackson
    4.
    A Nation of Dreamers: Examining American Immigration and Race through Esperanza Rising
    Guide Entry
    Tara McCrone
    5.
    American Intersections: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape our History and Lives
    Guide Entry
    Matthew Menschner
    6.
    How Hip-Hop Moved The Crowd to Social Activism
    Guide Entry
    Sharon Ponder
    7.
    American Policing Disparities: Today’s African-American Males Living in the Shadows of their Male Ancestors
    Guide Entry
    Christine Shaub
    8.
    Giving Voice to the Silenced
    Guide Entry
    Kaitlin Waldron
    9.
    Medical Inequality in America: Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Study, and Covid 19
    Guide Entry
    Krista Waldron
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    Volume 3
    Democracy and Inequality: Challenges and Possible Solutions
    Preface
    Introduction by Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science
    1.
    Examining the Inequitable Treatment of Asians in the US: A Civics Unit for Newcomer ELs
    Guide Entry
    Brittany Zezima
    2.
    The New Brown v. Board of Education in Today’s School Segregation
    Guide Entry
    Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
    3.
    Racial Inequities in Public School Today: Reflecting on Failures of Brown V Board
    Guide Entry
    Emma Kessler
    4.
    Can They Escape from Hot Cheetos & Takis? Black Appetite, White Food: Examining Issues of Race, Democracy, and Place
    Guide Entry
    Debra Jenkins
    5.
    Breaking Barriers: The Fight for Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Civil Rights
    Guide Entry
    Cinde Berkowitz
    6.
    Still Separate and Unequal? A Look at School Equality in the American Democracy
    Guide Entry
    Mark Hartung
    7.
    Cause and Effect: Inequality and Activism
    Guide Entry
    Laura Grisham
    8.
    Jim Crow 2.0: Voter Suppression in the 21st Century
    Guide Entry
    Eun Jung Kim
    9.
    Democracy & Inequality: To be or not to be?
    Guide Entry
    Tiffany Robinson
    10.
    Democracy: The Ancient World and Modern Implications
    Guide Entry
    Brandon Barr
    11.
    Orwell’s Dystopian Inequality: Fact or Fiction?
    Guide Entry
    Raven Sisco
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    Volume 4
    The Sun and Us
    Preface
    Introduction by Sarbani Basu, Professor of Astronomy
    1.
    Our Sun: The Myths, the Facts, and Superman
    Guide Entry
    Joseph Parrett
    2.
    Bringing the Solar System into Our Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Martine Devine
    3.
    The Sun & Chicago: Its Weather, Climate, and Climate Change
    Guide Entry
    Alexandra Wagner
    4.
    Using Case Studies to Understand the Sun's Influence on Earth's Climate System in 3rd Grade
    Guide Entry
    Jason Ward
    5.
    The Sun? the Father of All Energy for Life
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Isaac
    6.
    Stardust Students-Our Class Cosmos of the Stars
    Guide Entry
    Taryn Coullier
    7.
    Our Sun: Through Scientific, Cultural, and Artistic Lenses
    Guide Entry
    Tina Berry
    8.
    Beyond the Rainbow: Investigating the Characteristics of Stars
    Guide Entry
    Joanna Minott
    9.
    Analyzing Electromagnetic Wavelengths and Their Interactions
    Guide Entry
    Zachary Meyers
    10.
    The Sun and Photosynthesis: From Photons to Astrobiology
    Guide Entry
    Christopher Sikich
    ▼
    Volume 5
    Human Centered Design of Biotechnology
    Preface
    Introduction by Anjelica Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    1.
    Human-Centered Design of Biotechnology: Where Will We Be without Bees?
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    2.
    Vertical Farming: The Future of Urban Agriculture
    Guide Entry
    Taissa Lau
    3.
    Human Population Over Time – Analyzing the Demographic Transition Model
    Guide Entry
    Michael Doody
    4.
    Math by Design; Creating Innovators in a Post-Pandemic Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Christianna Loza
    5.
    Data and Graphical Analysis in Life Science
    Guide Entry
    Leslie Solomon
    6.
    The Curb Cut Effect: A Local and Global Citizen Bioengineering Challenge
    Guide Entry
    Michelle Melby
    7.
    More Than Frybread: The Road to Healthy Eating and Physical Fitness
    Guide Entry
    Irene Jones
    8.
    STEAM and Human Centered Design of Biotechnology
    Guide Entry
    Jesse Baker
    9.
    Harnessing the Power of Failure as a Catalyst for Innovation
    Guide Entry
    Charlette Walker

    2020

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    Volume 1
    American History through American Lives
    Preface
    Introduction by David C. Engerman, Leitner Professor of History
    1.
    Emmett Till: A Historical Inquiry
    Guide Entry
    Brandon Barr
    2.
    American History Through American Lives Celebrating Our Family History Through Immigration Stories
    Guide Entry
    Cindel Berlin
    3.
    “Faces in the Frame: More than a Narrative”-The Lives that Frame the True History of the United States through Primary Sources
    Guide Entry
    Taryn Coullier
    4.
    American Heritage: Unmasked, Unpacked & Uncloaked
    Guide Entry
    Lauren Freeman
    5.
    In Their Own Words? - Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Mark Hartung
    6.
    Rhetorical Inquiry Through the Lives of Douglass and Truth
    Guide Entry
    Andrew Maples
    7.
    The History within Toni Morrison’s Sula
    Guide Entry
    Krista Waldron
    8.
    “Boxing” Asian American History
    Guide Entry
    Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
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    Volume 2
    Teaching about Race and Racism Across the Disciplines
    Preface
    Introduction by Daniel Martinez HoSang, Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies
    1.
    Mexican-American Labor in California through Art Literacy
    Guide Entry
    Katherine Leung
    2.
    Who is in Charge Here?: Examining (in)visibility and Cultural Context of Jim Crow Era Monuments in Elementary Art Education
    Guide Entry
    Danielle Houdek
    3.
    Understanding Race and Racism Through Faith’s Ringgold’s Work
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    4.
    Centering Race in Literary Studies in the Kindergarten Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Katherine Swann
    5.
    Race and Racial Formation in Latin America: Racism Conscious Instruction in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Cristina Mejia
    6.
    Collusion in the Owner’s Box: How Racism and Oppression Have Built the American Sports Industry
    Guide Entry
    Sean Means
    7.
    Seeing the World through Race-Colored Glasses: Guiding High-School Journalism Students to Report in a Race-Conscious Way to Create a Race-Conscious World
    Guide Entry
    Raymond Salazar
    8.
    We Are Family: The Importance of Community through an Exploration of Johnathon Upper Elementary Schools
    Guide Entry
    Sabrina Evans
    9.
    No Lye, Nappy or Straight, People Still Gon’ Hate: Getting to the Root of the Issue; Colorblindness and Neutrality within Hairstyles and Hair Types
    Guide Entry
    Debra Jenkins
    ▼
    Volume 3
    Politics and Public Policy in the United States
    Preface
    Introduction by Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs
    1.
    It’s the Economy, Stupid: Lessons in Economics, Banking, and Personal Finance from the Financial Crisis of 2008
    Guide Entry
    Alexander de Arana
    2.
    UBI (Universal Basic Income): Yay! We Don’t Have to Work Anymore?
    Guide Entry
    Christopher Fong
    3.
    Codes of Conduct: Racist Housing and Education Policies that Impact Urban Students
    Guide Entry
    Christiona Hawkins
    4.
    What Have You Done For Me Lately; A Tale of Two Parties
    Guide Entry
    Eun Jung Kim
    5.
    The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change
    Guide Entry
    Christina Marsett
    6.
    Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance
    Guide Entry
    Hunter Najera
    7.
    Health and Public Policy
    Guide Entry
    Jenna O'Neill
    8.
    When downward Mobility Strikes
    Guide Entry
    Tiffany Robinson
    9.
    What Does a Camel and Vaping Have to Do with Public Policy?
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    10.
    Nothing Without Us: Bringing Justice to Public Policy
    Guide Entry
    Jacqueline Travis
    ▼
    Volume 4
    Solving Environmental Problems through Engineering
    Preface
    Introduction by Jordan Peccia, Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
    1.
    The Chemistry of Energy
    Guide Entry
    Luis Bello
    2.
    Building a Heat-Resilient Community in Richmond, Virginia
    Guide Entry
    Ryan Bennett
    3.
    Evaluating and Mitigating Stormwater Runoff Contamination
    Guide Entry
    Sally Cannizzaro
    4.
    The Life Cycle of Rare Earth Elements
    Guide Entry
    Cristobal Carambo
    5.
    A Plastic Struggle for Mother Earth
    Guide Entry
    Marnita Chischilly
    6.
    The Engineering of Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management Practices
    Guide Entry
    Michael Doody
    7.
    Confronting the Plastic Wasteland through Engineering
    Guide Entry
    Taissa Lau
    8.
    How Should I Get to School? A Life Cycle Assessment of DC’s Public Transportation
    Guide Entry
    Zachary Meyers
    9.
    Investigating Surfaces and Water Runoff in Urban Areas
    Guide Entry
    Ricardo Moreno
    10.
    Engineers Wanted: Climate Change Experience Necessary!
    Guide Entry
    Rachel Odoroff
    11.
    Mask On: Clearing the Air: the Challenges of Indoor Air Pollution on Urban Health and Academic Performance
    Guide Entry
    Virginia Redwine Johnson
    12.
    Engineering and Testing a Soil Moisture Sensor
    Guide Entry
    Jhansi Sunkerneni
    ▼
    Volume 5
    Caretakers versus Exploiters: Impacting Biodiversity in the Age of Humans
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul E. Turner, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    1.
    One Clover and A Bee: The Impacts of Bee Sustainability on Biodiversity in Allegheny County
    Guide Entry
    Jesse Baker
    2.
    Strands of One Braided Cord: How Humans Are Impacting Biodiversity Through the Spread of Disease
    Guide Entry
    Chelsea Best
    3.
    Biodiversity in Pocahontas State Park: Being Caretakers with Wildlife Corridors
    Guide Entry
    LaKendra Butler
    4.
    Montessori’s Cosmic Curriculum and Biodiversity in Africa
    Guide Entry
    Sara Conway
    5.
    Biodiversity Beyond the Four Walls
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Frasher
    6.
    Friend or Foe: Human Impact on the Earth’s Ecosystems
    Guide Entry
    Tara McCrone
    7.
    Ecological Effects of Strip Mining Coal on the Black Mesa Mine
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
    8.
    Viral Viruses: Land-Use Changes and Emerging Infectious Diseases
    Guide Entry
    Vanessa Vitug
    9.
    Saving Little Brown Bats: A Case Study of White-Nose Syndrome for Primary Grades
    Guide Entry
    Jason Ward
    10.
    Marine Biotoxins: Invisible, Odorless, and Lethal
    Guide Entry
    Lawrence Yee

    2019

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    Volume 1
    Reading for Writing: Modeling the Modern Essay
    Preface
    Introduction by Jessica Brantley, Associate Professor of English
    1.
    The Death of the Five Paragraph Essay: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay in Middle School
    Guide Entry
    Brandon Barr
    2.
    Pen to Paper with Alexander: The Writing Process for No Good, Very Bad Days
    Guide Entry
    LaKendra Butler
    3.
    To Whom It May Concern: Considering Audience and Purpose in Writing
    Guide Entry
    Simon Edgett
    4.
    Writers Use Risk before Rigor – Essays by Example
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Frasher
    5.
    Becoming Butterflies: A Transformative Writing Unit
    Guide Entry
    Lauren Freeman
    6.
    The Voice in You- A Form of Expression through Writing
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Isaac
    7.
    You Ain’t Gotta Write Like You Speak: Talking White, While Livin’ Brown
    Guide Entry
    Debra Jenkins
    8.
    Writing through Reading
    Guide Entry
    Sheilvina Knight
    9.
    Personal Essays and Storytelling: Trevor Noah, Nelson Mandela, and Nadine Gordimer
    Guide Entry
    Akela Leach
    10.
    How High-School Students Can Echo Professional Writers in Their Own Personal Essays
    Guide Entry
    Raymond Salazar
    11.
    Right Our World as Writers Who Are Readers: Acts of Resistance in Personal Memoirs and Public Arguments
    Guide Entry
    Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau
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    Volume 2
    The Problem of Mass Incarceration
    Preface
    Introduction by James Forman, Jr., Professor of Law
    1.
    Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
    Guide Entry
    Sally Cannizzaro
    2.
    On Criminal Justice Reform: Studying Philadelphia’s New, Reform-Minded District Attorney through a Historical Context
    Guide Entry
    Alexander de Arana
    3.
    Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
    Guide Entry
    Laura Gillihan
    4.
    Understanding and Challenging the Overcriminalization of Youth of Color
    Guide Entry
    Anette Norona
    5.
    Who Watches the Watchmen? How Police Militarization Has Subverted the Constitution
    Guide Entry
    Bret Plavchak
    6.
    Equipping Students with Tools for Positive Change
    Guide Entry
    Trace Ragland
    7.
    A History of Peacemaking and Incarceration with the Dine People
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
    8.
    Learning the System to Overcome the System: Juvenile Justice for High School Students
    Guide Entry
    Krista Waldron
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    Volume 3
    American Democracy and the Promise of Justice
    Preface
    Introduction by Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center
    1.
    Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements
    Guide Entry
    Ludy Aguada
    2.
    The Right to Vote: Empowerment and Civic Engagement in our Democracy
    Guide Entry
    Cinde Berkowitz
    3.
    Understanding Democracy in the Elementary Grades
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    4.
    Grade Level Gavel Student Court: Justice for All
    Guide Entry
    Taryn Coullier
    5.
    Current Refugee and Immigrant Policy in the United States: How Do They Impact Your Community?
    Guide Entry
    Lynn Gallo
    6.
    Expanding Rights in American Democracy – Coalitions, Conflict, & Controversy
    Guide Entry
    Mark Hartung
    7.
    The Different Types of Government and The Vote
    Guide Entry
    Kimberly Jim
    8.
    Á?chíní Bi Beehaz’áanii: Applying Navajo Fundamental Law to Preserve Cultural Heritage
    Guide Entry
    Irene Jones
    9.
    The Different Shades of the Yellow Bus
    Guide Entry
    Sean Means
    10.
    Chasing the Dream: The Civil Rights Movement and Desire for American Equality
    Guide Entry
    Matthew Menschner
    11.
    A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
    Guide Entry
    Lea Stenson
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    Volume 4
    Energy Sciences
    Preface
    Introduction by Gary W. Brudvig, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    1.
    Driving in the Future: How Far Will that Battery Take You?
    Guide Entry
    Cristobal Carambo
    2.
    Acids and Particulate Matter and Mercury, Oh My! An Examination of the Major Impacts of Coal on the Environment
    Guide Entry
    Michael Doody
    3.
    My Future, My Home: Building a Greener House for Tomorrow
    Guide Entry
    Melissa Duran
    4.
    Transfer of Energy through a Food Chain
    Guide Entry
    Joseph Jackson
    5.
    Prototyping a Wind Turbine and Measuring Performance
    Guide Entry
    Drew Katti
    6.
    Assessing Chicago's Carbon Footprint One Step at a Time
    Guide Entry
    Taissa Lau
    7.
    Islands and Their Energy Needs
    Guide Entry
    Krystal Medina
    8.
    Analyzing Energy Efficiency Through Energy Transformations
    Guide Entry
    Zachary Meyers
    9.
    Demystifying Radiation
    Guide Entry
    Vanessa Vitug
    10.
    Harnessing the Wind Like William Kamkwamba: Building Model Windmills in a 4th Grade STEM Lab
    Guide Entry
    Jason Ward
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    Volume 5
    Perimeter, Area, Volume, and All That: A Study of Measurement
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    A Pathway to Understanding Area and Perimeter
    Guide Entry
    Lianne Aubert Sanfeliz
    2.
    SmArt Math: Paper Polyominoes and Ceramic Tetradic Cuboids
    Guide Entry
    Tina Berry
    3.
    Native American Geometric Community
    Guide Entry
    Marnita Chischilly
    4.
    Exploring Perimeter and Area with Third Graders
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Gormley
    5.
    Pentomino Garden: An Explorative Unit in Measurement, Manipulatives, and Gardening
    Guide Entry
    Jamie Griffin
    6.
    When Your Plan to Multiply Polynomials is FOILED
    Guide Entry
    Tierra Ingram
    7.
    Area, Surface Area and Volume: From Misconceptions to Skyscrapers
    Guide Entry
    Ricardo Moreno
    8.
    Measures and Counts and Shapes, Oh...Polyomino?
    Guide Entry
    Joseph Parrett
    9.
    Measuring All Around, Inside and Out: A Unit about Perimeter and Area
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    10.
    Area and Perimeter: Farming Polyominos on the Navajo Nation
    Guide Entry
    Andrea Thomas
    11.
    From Polyominoes to Planters: Using Manipulatives and Project-Based Learning to Explore Measurement
    Guide Entry
    Dennis Williams
    12.
    Geometric, Classroom Object Calculations
    Guide Entry
    Trisha Williams

    2018

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    Volume 1
    Race, Class, and Punishment
    Preface
    Introduction by James Forman, Jr., Professor of Law
    1.
    Decriminalizing Education
    Guide Entry
    Kalah Bell
    2.
    A Church Hill: The Birth, Death, Revival But What About the Children?
    Guide Entry
    Angela Brown
    3.
    The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
    Guide Entry
    Mark Hartung
    4.
    The American Dream,
    Guide Entry
    Sean Means
    5.
    From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
    Guide Entry
    Matthew Menschner
    6.
    Ancient Law Codes to School Discipline: Is it Justice for All?
    Guide Entry
    Sara Mingione
    7.
    This is America: Restorative Peace Circles and the decline of Suspensions and Expulsions
    Guide Entry
    Sharon Ponder
    8.
    Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
    Guide Entry
    Rodney Robinson
    9.
    13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
    Guide Entry
    Robert Schwartz
    10.
    Juvenile Justice in California: A Rhetorical Approach
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Vermillion
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    Volume 2
    Poems about Works of Art, Featuring Women and Other Marginalized Writers
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Anita Galloway
    2.
    Reflections Upon Reflections: Ekphrasis as Self-Exploration in Middle School ELA
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Mullin
    3.
    The Third Space: Ekphrasis, Confessional Poetry, and Mental Health
    Guide Entry
    Krista Waldron
    4.
    Creatively Communicating through Visual and Verbal Art- Poetry and Murals
    Guide Entry
    Stephany Jimenez
    5.
    Activism and Cultural Identity Through Works of Art in Chicago Neighborhoods
    Guide Entry
    Laura Gillihan
    6.
    Ekphrastic Poetry in the Second Language Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Holly Bryk
    7.
    The Words Inside Me: Learning to Express Myself through Words
    Guide Entry
    Desiree Denny
    8.
    Ekphrastic Poetry: Connecting with the Original Language and Culture Through Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Ella Earl
    9.
    Reflective Self Portraits: A Study of Oneself through Ekphrastic Poetry and Art
    Guide Entry
    Leigh Hall
    10.
    The Spirit Task: African Americans Reclaim Power through Art and Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Nina Ford
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    Volume 3
    Adaptation: Literature, Film and Society
    Preface
    Introduction by Brigitte M. Peucker, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature and of Film Studies
    1.
    The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills
    Guide Entry
    Brandon Barr
    2.
    The Snow Queen in Film
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    3.
    From Prince to King: Black Panther in Text and Film
    Guide Entry
    LaKendra Butler
    4.
    Stories Told through Literature, Film and How It Applies to Our Society
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Isaac
    5.
    Native American Literature Adaptation: From Smoke Signals to Reading Comprehension
    Guide Entry
    Irene Jones
    6.
    Fahrenheit 451 in 2018: Can film bring Ray Bradbury’s classic into the modern age?
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Mazzocco
    7.
    Our White Hats: A Study of Heroes
    Guide Entry
    Joseph Parrett
    8.
    Understanding the Apocalyptic Society: The Walking Dead from Comics to Television
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    9.
    Adapting Culture from Book to Film: Laughing Boy
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
    10.
    Wonderstruck: Disability Awareness Through Visual Storytelling
    Guide Entry
    Lea Stenson
    11.
    Filmic Adaptations of Mid-Century Bildungsromans Using The Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar
    Guide Entry
    Tara McKee
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    Volume 4
    Big Numbers, Small Numbers
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    Answering Big Questions by Finally Understanding Big Numbers
    Guide Entry
    Aaron Bingea
    2.
    Place Value Meets Multiplication: Utilizing Place Value to Comprehend Multiplication
    Guide Entry
    LaJuanda Bland
    3.
    Making Number Sense through Relevancy: Place Value, Adding and Subtracting, Decimals, and Estimation
    Guide Entry
    Marnita Chischilly
    4.
    Closing Deficits Exponentially: Addressing Base Ten & Small Numbers Using Exponents
    Guide Entry
    Tierra Ingram
    5.
    Exploring the Metric System and EM Spectrum Through Base Ten Numeration
    Guide Entry
    Zachary Meyers
    6.
    What Makes a Superhero Super? Putting Scientific Notation in Context
    Guide Entry
    Charlotte Perry
    7.
    Estimating Big Numbers: Do You Really Understand Them?
    Guide Entry
    Lynnette Shouse
    8.
    Decimal Place Value: A Culturally Responsive Approach
    Guide Entry
    Krystal Smith
    9.
    Enumerating Daily Life with Counting Principles, Permutations, and Combinations
    Guide Entry
    Lawrence Yee
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    Volume 5
    Manipulating Biology: Costs, Benefits and Controversies
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul E. Turner, Elihu Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Acting Dean of Science
    1.
    Augmenting Bone Regeneration: Structure, Function, and Dysfunction of the Skeletal System
    Guide Entry
    Kwame Adu-Wusu
    2.
    Should We? Possibilities, Perils, and Unintended Consequences of Genetic Engineering
    Guide Entry
    Cristobal Carambo
    3.
    GMOs: Costs, Benefits, and Controversies
    Guide Entry
    Pierre Clark
    4.
    Feeding the World Using Genetically Modified Organisms: A Survey of GMO Technology and its Impact on Agricultural Production
    Guide Entry
    Michael Doody
    5.
    The Power and Responsibility of Human Changes to Biology: Malaria, Mosquitoes, and CRISPR Technology
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Ibarra
    6.
    Chemical Warfare and the Rise of Antibiotic Resistance
    Guide Entry
    Sheila Lacanaria
    7.
    Chemical Footprints: Health Threats of Food Toxins?
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Moncrief
    8.
    Exploring CRISPR Gene Drives for Schizophrenia and Superpowers
    Guide Entry
    Eual Phillips
    9.
    Endangered Species, De-Extinction and MANipulation
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    10.
    Vaccines and the Outbreak of Nonsense
    Guide Entry
    Thomas Teague
    11.
    From Wolf to Woof! Artificial Selection via Selective Breeding
    Guide Entry
    Jason Ward

    2017

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    Volume 1
    The Illustrated Page: Medieval Manuscripts to New Media
    Preface
    Introduction by Jessica Brantley, Associate Professor of English
    1.
    Image as Text: A Bridge to Critical Literary Analysis
    Guide Entry
    Brandon Barr
    2.
    In Their Own Images
    Guide Entry
    Yolanda Bezares-Chavez
    3.
    Bringing Alive the Art of the Past: Modern Tattoos and Illuminated Manuscripts
    Guide Entry
    Donna Bonavia
    4.
    From Panel to Pen: Using Greek Mythology to Create Graphic Stories to Enhance the Writing Process for Young Learners
    Guide Entry
    Shannon Foster-Williams
    5.
    Using Navajo Contemporary Art to Teach Descriptive Writing to ELL Students
    Guide Entry
    Irene Jones
    6.
    Bringing Indigenous Stories to the Classroom through Art and Comics
    Guide Entry
    Amandeep Khosa
    7.
    Multiple Literacies Being Developed in the Literature Classroom: Hieroglyphics to Graphic Novels
    Guide Entry
    Meghan Senjanin
    8.
    An American Myth: How Pictures and Texts Have Changed the Narrative of the American Revolution
    Guide Entry
    Lynnette Shouse
    9.
    Kindergarten Writing: Writing as a Form of Art
    Guide Entry
    Anna Tom
    10.
    Minds in the Gutters and Bleeding on the Page: Literacy and Civil Rights History through the MARCH Comics Trilogy
    Guide Entry
    Krista Waldron
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    Volume 2
    Literature, Life-Writing, and Identity
    Preface
    Introduction by Jill Campbell, Professor of English
    1.
    Identity of Persons with Disabilities: Looking at People and Characters in Novels and Media
    Guide Entry
    Toni Aliskowitz
    2.
    Identity of Past and Present Diné
    Guide Entry
    Priscilla Black
    3.
    Curating an identity: Exploration and Expression in the Elementary Art Room
    Guide Entry
    Robert Graham
    4.
    Finding Me, Knowing You: Exploring and Expressing Identity through Language Arts
    Guide Entry
    Tharish Harris
    5.
    Uncovering Individuality in a Scripted World
    Guide Entry
    Patrice Henry
    6.
    Identity in Transition: Narrative Repair for Changing Times
    Guide Entry
    Marissa King
    7.
    Given, Chosen, and/or Imposed: My Gender, Myself
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    8.
    American Born Readers: A Multicultural, Multimedia Attempt to Challenge Perspectives and Inspire Reading
    Guide Entry
    Robert Schwartz
    9.
    Growing Roots, Stretching Wings: An Exploration of Identity and Voice for English Learners
    Guide Entry
    Sara Stillman
    10.
    "Shi" - Child of the Holy People
    Guide Entry
    Joyce Tsinijinnie
    11.
    Whose America? Americans in the Americas and Inequality
    Guide Entry
    Eduardo Valladares
    12.
    Keeping it Real: Non-Fiction and Identity Formation in Teens
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Vermillion
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    Volume 3
    Poetry and Public Life
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    Poetry in Public Discourse: Reading, Writing, and Circulating the Political Poem
    Guide Entry
    Richard Cuminale
    2.
    Poetry as a Dialectic in the Public Sphere
    Guide Entry
    Matthew D'Agostino
    3.
    Making Our Communities Visible: Poetry, Rhetoric and Social Justice
    Guide Entry
    Jo Flory
    4.
    Poetry and Public Life through Cultural Perspective and Relevancy
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Isaac
    5.
    Poetry of Defiance-From the Progressive Era to Today
    Guide Entry
    Eun Jung Kim
    6.
    Poetry in Notion: The Hartford Wits and the Emergence of an American Identity
    Guide Entry
    Michael McClellan
    7.
    A Private Moment in Public View: Analysis of Muslim Poets and Political Activists from the 20th Century to Today
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Radebaugh
    8.
    America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Debra Titus
    9.
    Poetic Visions and Versions of America
    Guide Entry
    Tara McKee
    10.
    Philadelphia, Do you See What I See?
    Guide Entry
    Terry Anne Wildman
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    Volume 4
    Chemistry of Cooking
    Preface
    Introduction by Gary W. Brudvig, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    1.
    The Math and Science of Kitchen Ratios
    Guide Entry
    Jacqueline Alvarado
    2.
    The Chemistry of Baking Bread
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    3.
    Food Preservation: From Edible School Garden to Science Table
    Guide Entry
    James Churilla
    4.
    The Power of Extracts
    Guide Entry
    Stevara Clinton
    5.
    Being Corny: Using Popcorn to Explore Thermodynamics
    Guide Entry
    Terri Eros
    6.
    Rise and Bind: Substituting binders and flours in pancakes
    Guide Entry
    Robin Harris
    7.
    Matter Chatter: Exploring the effect heat has on states of matter using the five senses
    Guide Entry
    Annie McGill
    8.
    Science of Sugar
    Guide Entry
    Chris Moy
    9.
    Salt and Health – It’s not fair!
    Guide Entry
    Shirley Paulson
    10.
    Confectionery Chemistry: Shifting the Contents of Chocolate
    Guide Entry
    Eual Phillips
    11.
    Everyday Science of Cooking
    Guide Entry
    Cameron Rowe
    12.
    Best Practices for Food Preservation from Lab to Home Kitchen
    Guide Entry
    Thanh-Nhu Tran
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    Volume 5
    From Arithmetic to Algebra: Variables, Word Problems, Fractions and the Rules
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    Helping Struggling Readers Build Math Understanding through Word Problems
    Guide Entry
    Gilbert Carter Jr.
    2.
    Solving Problems Multiple Ways: Using Arithmetic and Literature - Hooray!
    Guide Entry
    Brittany McCann
    3.
    Understanding Problems: Using Bar Models with Common Core Taxonomies
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    4.
    Math Word Problems and the Diné Hooghan
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
    5.
    Mathematics as a Language of Symbols
    Guide Entry
    Irina Alekseeva
    6.
    "Simplifying" the Issues with Expressions
    Guide Entry
    Xiomara Pacheco
    7.
    Introduction of the Variable by Forming and Interpreting Expressions
    Guide Entry
    Jeffrey Rossiter
    8.
    Formulating Algebraic Equations from Word Problems
    Guide Entry
    Rachelle Soroten
    9.
    Making Sense of Solving Equations Through Word Problems
    Guide Entry
    Sally Yoo
    10.
    Exploring Kinematic Proportional Relationships
    Guide Entry
    Zachary Meyers
    11.
    Sequencing Math DNA: Differences, Nth Terms, and Algebraic Sequences
    Guide Entry
    Lawrence Yee
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    Volume 6
    Engineering of Global Health
    Preface
    Introduction by W. Mark Saltzman, Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
    1.
    Gene Therapy and Muscular Dystrophy: Structure, Function, and Dysfunction of the Muscular System
    Guide Entry
    Kwame Adu-Wusu
    2.
    A Cell's Story - From Growth to Mitosis
    Guide Entry
    Monica Cohen
    3.
    Economics and Community Health - The Wealth-Health Paradigm
    Guide Entry
    Michael Doody
    4.
    Water... "Good To The Last Drop"
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Moncrief
    5.
    Cure for the Common Cold: Fantasy or Reality?
    Guide Entry
    Alexa Freshour
    6.
    HeLa Cells, Cervical Cancer, and the HPV Vaccine
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Ibarra
    7.
    Micro Life in a Macro World: Understanding Life at the Microscopic Scale and the Spread of Disease
    Guide Entry
    Beth Pellegrini
    8.
    Germs Attack!
    Guide Entry
    Jessica Johnson

    2016

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    Volume 1
    Contemporary American Indian History
    Preface
    Introduction by Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History and of American Studies
    1.
    Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
    Guide Entry
    Ludy Aguada
    2.
    Interpreting Moments of American Indian Activism
    Guide Entry
    Travis Bouldin
    3.
    First and Second Wave Native American Literature
    Guide Entry
    Tara Ann Carter
    4.
    Rewriting the Narrative of American History: American Indian Identity and the Process of Recovery
    Guide Entry
    Jo Flory
    5.
    The Constitutional Crisis of Indian Removal
    Guide Entry
    Danielle Greene
    6.
    Relationships of African Americans and Creeks in Oklahoma to 1936
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Hodge
    7.
    Agents of Change: How American Indians Helped Change the World in Only Seven Years
    Guide Entry
    Michael McClellan
    8.
    The Menominee Journey to Self Determination
    Guide Entry
    Ashley Pate
    9.
    Indian Boarding Schools: A Case Study of Assimilation, Resistance, and Resilience
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    10.
    Code-Switching: From Indian Boarding Schools to Urban Classrooms
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Zavacky
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    Volume 2
    Why Literature Matters
    Preface
    Introduction by Janice Carlisle, Professor of English
    1.
    Reading for Craft through an Author Study
    Guide Entry
    Debra Titus
    2.
    William Butler Yeats Meets an Eighth Grader from West Philadelphia
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Radebaugh
    3.
    Connecting it All: How Connecting Students to a Text Increases Motivation to Read
    Guide Entry
    Carla Jones
    4.
    Learning Social Skills and Problem Solving with Winnie-the-Pooh
    Guide Entry
    Amandeep Khosa
    5.
    Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
    Guide Entry
    Tim Smith
    6.
    Creating Connections to Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire
    Guide Entry
    Maureen Becker
    7.
    Using Art-Based Research to Explore Metaphors in Romeo and Juliet with English Language Learners
    Guide Entry
    Sara Stillman
    8.
    Reading One Another: Fostering Passion and Identity Growth through African-American Literature
    Guide Entry
    Robert Schwartz
    9.
    Who Am I?: Culturally Relevant Text and American Identity
    Guide Entry
    Mark Holston
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    Volume 3
    "Over the Rainbow": Fantasy Lands, Dream Worlds, and Magic Kingdoms
    Preface
    Introduction by Joseph R. Roach, Sterling Professor of English and Professor of African American Studies, of American Studies, and of Theater Studies
    1.
    Magical Multi-Culti Yellow Brick Road Realism: Using Imagination to Find Reality
    Guide Entry
    Krista Waldron
    2.
    Afirmando Nuestra Identidad (Affirming Our Identity): Exploring Dream Worlds and Storytelling through Alebrijes
    Guide Entry
    Mary Moreno
    3.
    Stick to Your Story: Fleshing out Existing Narrative Structures
    Guide Entry
    Tharish Harris
    4.
    Getting Graphic about Writing
    Guide Entry
    Corrina Christmas
    5.
    Easing on Down the Road: Reading Critically, Writing Fantastically
    Guide Entry
    Brandon Barr
    6.
    Seeking a Home: The Wiz and the Black Arts Movement
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Mazzocco
    7.
    Dreaming on Imaginary Stages and Writing Imaginative Scripts: The Magical "If" Fulfilled, in "Hamilton"
    Guide Entry
    Sydney Coffin
    8.
    Unraveling the Dream World Stereotype of the Arab People
    Guide Entry
    Priya Talreja
    9.
    Journey to the Sun: Reclaiming Imagination and Self-esteem through Culture and History
    Guide Entry
    Tiffany Tracy
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    Volume 4
    Energy Sciences
    Preface
    Introduction by Gary W. Brudvig, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    1.
    What is Our Energy Past, Present, and Future?
    Guide Entry
    Josh Bearman
    2.
    The Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell
    Guide Entry
    Cristobal Carambo
    3.
    Plant, Watch, and Grow
    Guide Entry
    Jessica Johnson
    4.
    Energetics of Biofuel - Investigating Alternative Energy Sources by Manufacturing Biodiesel
    Guide Entry
    Zachary Meyers
    5.
    It Ain't Easy Being Green
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Moncrief
    6.
    Solar and Wind and Batteries, Oh My!
    Guide Entry
    Joseph Parrett
    7.
    Náhasdzáán Níłchi Binaadohígíí - Carbon Dioxide
    Guide Entry
    Shirley Paulson
    8.
    The Future of Energy
    Guide Entry
    Jacqueline Alvarado
    9.
    Get Charged Up: The Past, Present and Future of Electricity
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    10.
    The Backwards and Forwards of Photosynthesis
    Guide Entry
    Larissa Spreng
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    Volume 5
    The Number Line in the Common Core
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers on the Number Line
    Guide Entry
    Aaron Bingea
    2.
    Using the Number Line in Second Grade
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    3.
    Moving from Rods to Number Lines to Understand Fractions
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Gormley
    4.
    Beyond the Number Line: Coordinate Systems and Vector Arithmetic
    Guide Entry
    Klint Kanopka
    5.
    Decimal Expansion: An Address System for All Numbers
    Guide Entry
    Jung Lee
    6.
    The Starting Line-Up: Analyzing the Number Line to Conceptualize Foundational Skills for Algebra
    Guide Entry
    Coretta Martin
    7.
    Rational Number Placement on the Number Line
    Guide Entry
    Jeffrey Rossiter
    8.
    Diyogi (Navajo Rug) and the Number Line
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
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    Volume 6
    Making Sense of Evolution
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul E. Turner, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    1.
    Silent Witnesses: Hexapod Helpers in Crime Scene Investigation
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Claudio
    2.
    Genetic Engineering and the Potential Effects on Evolution
    Guide Entry
    Akemi Hamai
    3.
    Gotta Evolve ‘Em All! Evolutionary Ideas for 1st Graders
    Guide Entry
    David Ostheimer
    4.
    Understanding Earth's History and Geologic Time through Evolution
    Guide Entry
    Amanda Snow
    5.
    Transitional Forms: The Evidence for Evolution by Natural Selection
    Guide Entry
    Thomas Teague
    6.
    The Ever Evolving Brain and Neurodegenerative Disease
    Guide Entry
    Vanessa Vitug

    2015

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    Volume 1
    Literature and Information
    Preface
    Introduction by Jessica Brantley, Associate Professor of English
    1.
    Wandering Through The Bad Times: Children Making Their Way Through the Great Depression
    Guide Entry
    Joyce Arnosky
    2.
    Helping Students
    Guide Entry
    Luke Holm
    3.
    Farming, Food and a Balanced Navajo Lifestyle
    Guide Entry
    LeTanya James
    4.
    Defining Culture through the Lens of Literature and Text in Kindergarten
    Guide Entry
    Joseph Parrett
    5.
    Different Cultures in Chicago's Neighborhoods: Chinese and Mexican Communities
    Guide Entry
    Nadra Ruff
    6.
    Dystopian Societies in Adolescent Literature: Can Compliance and Freedom Coexist Peacefully In A Dark, Dystopian World?
    Guide Entry
    Teresa Rush
    7.
    Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    8.
    Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders
    Guide Entry
    Julie So
    9.
    Revisiting Race and Riot: Exploring Tulsa’s Conflicts in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Image
    Guide Entry
    Krista Waldron
    10.
    Words of Patriotism: The Pledge of Allegiance
    Guide Entry
    Keisha Wheat
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    Volume 2
    Explaining Character in Shakespeare
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    Sticks and Stones: The Bully and the Bullies in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest
    Guide Entry
    Joyce Jacobson
    2.
    Tragedies and Plots Shaped by Characters of Shakespeare and Navajo Oral Myths
    Guide Entry
    Irene Jones
    3.
    Fate or Action: Character Agency & What the 21st Century Student Gains from The Merchant of Venice
    Guide Entry
    Christina Cancelli
    4.
    To Thine Own self Be True: the Uncovering the Hamlet in You
    Guide Entry
    Chenise Gregory
    5.
    Character in Hamlet: Family & Loss
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Weidmann
    6.
    Examining Shakespeare’s Characters, Character’s Choices and the Consequences to Make Them Relevant to Middle School
    Guide Entry
    Michelle Hilbeck
    7.
    Removing the Mask: An Untamed Look at Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
    Guide Entry
    Quinn Jacobs
    8.
    Convincing the Masses: Rhetoric in Julius Caesar
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Vermillion
    9.
    Shaping a Multi-Dimensional Villain: Richard III
    Guide Entry
    Teresa Harrold
    10.
    How Our Moral Views Shape Our Judgment of Characters in Julius Caesar
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Mazzocco
    11.
    The Question of Desire: A Comparison of Love in Shakespeare
    Guide Entry
    Justin Brady
    12.
    Take a Stab at It: Exploring Character in Julius Caesar
    Guide Entry
    Tara Ann Carter
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    Volume 3
    History in Our Everyday Lives
    Preface
    Introduction by Mary Lui, Professor of History and of American Studies
    1.
    Richmond’s Divisive Monuments: A Look into One City’s Debate over Public Art, Memory, and History
    Guide Entry
    Jeanne Callahan
    2.
    Silicon Valley’s Otro Lado, Youth Voices Speak About Their Community in Film
    Guide Entry
    William Cavada
    3.
    My City Need' Something
    Guide Entry
    Sydney Coffin
    4.
    French History in Your City: San Jose, California - the Pellier Brothers
    Guide Entry
    Glenn Davis
    5.
    A Public History of Public Housing: Richmond, Virginia
    Guide Entry
    Libby Germer
    6.
    Looking at Desegregation through Local Narratives: A Case Study at Tulsa Central High School
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Hodge
    7.
    Telling Stories: Place, Space, and Memory in Chicago's Parks
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Miller
    8.
    Ripple Effect: How Major Events Effect Everyone
    Guide Entry
    Raymond Ott
    9.
    The History and Analysis of Public Art: Using Delaware’s Desegregation History as a Ground to Learn, Interpret, and Create
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Terlecki
    10.
    Pittsburgh: Contending with its Steel Past
    Guide Entry
    Tracy Watkins
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    Volume 4
    Using Film in the Classroom/How to Read a Film
    Preface
    Introduction by Brigitte M. Peucker, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature and of Film Studies
    1.
    Look Behind You! Mastering the Art of Suspense with Poe and Hitchcock
    Guide Entry
    Margaret Deweese
    2.
    The Visual Art of Writing
    Guide Entry
    Shannon Foster-Williams
    3.
    Film, Freud and Fitzgerald: A Psychoanalytical Critique of The Great Gatsby and Jazz Age Values
    Guide Entry
    William Greene
    4.
    Film Analysis and Contemporary Issues: The Surveillance State
    Guide Entry
    Eric Maroney
    5.
    You Should Be in a Dress and Camisole
    Guide Entry
    Molly Myers
    6.
    Deepening One's Understanding of Psychological Disorders Through Film: From One Extreme to Another - Depression and Schizophrenia
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    7.
    Immigration and the Narrative Voice: Analysis of Image and Sound in Film and Its Connection to the Immigrants' Stories
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Radebaugh
    8.
    Lights, Camera, Action! Reading Children’s Literature through Film in the Spanish Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Sobeyda Rivera
    9.
    The Authenticity of Native American Indian Character and Culture in Book and Film
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
    10.
    Life in the DDR through Film: German II
    Guide Entry
    Arcadia Teel
    ▼
    Volume 5
    Problem Solving and the Common Core
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    Taking the Problems out of Story Problems
    Guide Entry
    Corrina Christmas
    2.
    Math is All Around Us: Representing and Solving One-Step Addition and Subtraction Word Problems within 20
    Guide Entry
    Danyelle Frye
    3.
    Real World Problem Solving in Second Grade Mathematics
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    4.
    Planting a Seed for Problem Solving
    Guide Entry
    Christy Schmidt-Applegate
    5.
    Math at School: Modeling Addition and Subtraction in Everyday Classroom Scenarios
    Guide Entry
    Joshua Lerner
    6.
    Creating a Culture of Critical Thinkers in the Mathematics Classroom: Reducing Dependency on Key Words
    Guide Entry
    Melissa Anderson
    7.
    Fractions: Building a Foundation through Conceptual Understanding and Problem Solving
    Guide Entry
    Melissa Grise
    8.
    Developing Proportional Reasoning
    Guide Entry
    Aaron Bingea
    9.
    Equations in the Common Core: Algebraic Reasoning and Problem Solving
    Guide Entry
    Hilary Waldo
    10.
    Personalizing Problem Solving
    Guide Entry
    Lawrence Yee
    11.
    Solving Big Problems: Using Estimation to Develop Scientific Number Sense
    Guide Entry
    Klint Kanopka
    ▼
    Volume 6
    Physiological Determinants of Global Health
    Preface
    Introduction by W. Mark Saltzman, Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
    1.
    Diabetes and Navajo Nation
    Guide Entry
    Priscilla Black
    2.
    Towards an Understanding of Disease Burdens in Developing and Developed Nations
    Guide Entry
    Cristobal Carambo
    3.
    Effects of Carcinogens on Cells
    Guide Entry
    Dawn Curtis
    4.
    Genetics and Mechanisms of Disease
    Guide Entry
    Corryn Nikodemski
    5.
    Recombinant DNA Technology and Global Health
    Guide Entry
    Tarie Pace
    6.
    Statistical Methods and Health in Chicago
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Schneider
    7.
    The Changing Threat of Malaria and the Impact on Global Health
    Guide Entry
    Joe Van Sambeek
    8.
    Every Breath You Take - Air Pollution’s Effects on Respiratory Health
    Guide Entry
    Vanessa Vitug
    9.
    The Role of Hormones in Homeostasis
    Guide Entry
    Andrea Zullo

    2014

    Guide to Curriculum Units
    ▼
    Volume 1
    Understanding History and Society through Images, 1776-1914
    Preface
    Introduction by Timothy J. Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of History of Art
    1.
    Dramatizing Art: Tableaux Vivants
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    2.
    American Genre Painting: Visual Representations of Slavery and Emancipation, 1850-1870
    Guide Entry
    Tara Ann Carter
    3.
    "Whose Destiny? Viewing America's Westward Expansion through Artful Eyes"
    Guide Entry
    Margaret Deweese
    4.
    Anasazi Images on Navajo Land
    Guide Entry
    Audrelia Dugi
    5.
    Experiencing the Revolutionary War Era through Visual Images
    Guide Entry
    Alexandra Edwards
    6.
    Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
    Guide Entry
    William Greene
    7.
    Taking a Close Look at Pirates and Mothers
    Guide Entry
    Meredith Ostheimer
    8.
    Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
    Guide Entry
    Kristie Reid
    9.
    Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
    Guide Entry
    Rodney Robinson
    10.
    Making Art Against the Odds: The Triumph of Edmonia Lewis
    Guide Entry
    Kimberly Towne
    11.
    Civil Disobedience in Words and Images
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Vermillion
    12.
    Reading Art in Language Arts: Characterizing Human Atrocities from the Slave Trade to the Second World War
    Guide Entry
    Alveda Zahn
    ▼
    Volume 2
    Playing with Poems: Rules, Tools, and Games
    Preface
    Introduction by Langdon L. Hammer, Professor of English and of American Studies
    1.
    Life Happens: Thinking about Key Life Transitions and Identity through Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Brandon Barr
    2.
    Growing Up Yo in New Haven: Teaching Spanish through Bilingual Slam Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Jean Capacetti
    3.
    Tearing Poetry Apart: A Short History of How Collage, Concrete, and Conceptual Poems Are Made
    Guide Entry
    Sydney Coffin
    4.
    Dulce et Decorum Est: Common Core and The Poetry of War
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Daniell
    5.
    The ABCs of Elementary Reading and Writing Poetry with Animals
    Guide Entry
    Karin Foss
    6.
    The Sestina: Having Fun with Form and Content
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Mazzocco
    7.
    Poetry Café: The World of Langston Hughes
    Guide Entry
    Joyce Jacobson
    8.
    Using Poetry Songs to Teach Fluency Using Literature about Navajo Culture in an ELL Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Irene Jones
    9.
    Pictures, Poems, and Planets
    Guide Entry
    Kristen Rosenthal
    10.
    Don't Fear the Symmetry: The Poetry of William Blake
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Muller
    11.
    Visual Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Teresa Strohl
    ▼
    Volume 3
    Immigration and Migration and the Making of a Modern American City
    Preface
    Introduction by Mary Lui, Professor of History and of American Studies
    1.
    Lights, Camera, Immigration! An Examination of Global Cities Through Film
    Guide Entry
    Erin Breault
    2.
    Neighborhood as Palimpsest: An Examination of Chicago's Back of the Yards Neighborhood Through Urban Historical Geography
    Guide Entry
    Molly Myers
    3.
    Tug-of-War: Mexican Immigration to the United States
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    4.
    The Cultural Move: Impact of Mexican Migration on Today's American Food
    Guide Entry
    Sobeyda Rivera
    5.
    Immigration and Migration: My Family and My Community
    Guide Entry
    Julie So
    6.
    Understanding San Francisco Bay Area Immigration Through an Exploration of Laws and Images
    Guide Entry
    Sara Stillman
    7.
    The Settled and the Unsettled, Then and Now: Rites of Passage in Urban Life and Narrative
    Guide Entry
    Krista Waldron
    ▼
    Volume 4
    Eloquence
    Preface
    Introduction by Joseph R. Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and Professor of English, of African American and of American Studies
    1.
    Medea: Innocent or Guilty? It's Just Rhetoric
    Guide Entry
    Ludy Aguada
    2.
    Eloquence and Culture Leading with Words
    Guide Entry
    Priscilla Black
    3.
    Articulations: Crafting Credible Discourse on Art, Aesthetics, and Design
    Guide Entry
    Gloria Brinkman
    4.
    Re-tweet This: Personal Branding through Social Media is the New Rhetoric of Persuasion
    Guide Entry
    Christina Cancelli
    5.
    From Insurgent Listener to Word Warrior: Self-advocating through Spoken Word
    Guide Entry
    Cheree Charmello
    6.
    Elements of Rhetoric in the Language-Learning Classroom: Convince Me You are Fluent!
    Guide Entry
    Crecia Cipriano
    7.
    Energizing the Debate: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Sources of Energy
    Guide Entry
    April Higgins
    8.
    The Politics of Rhetoric: William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Leadership Speeches of World War II
    Guide Entry
    Joe Lovato
    9.
    Rhetoric in My World: Engaging Students in Rhetorical Analysis Through Political Speechwriting
    Guide Entry
    Jo Flory
    10.
    Eloquence and Authenticity: Who Are You and Why Should I Listen to You?
    Guide Entry
    Rachel Stayton
    11.
    Auditorium Building, Chicago: "The Temple of Peace."
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Weidmann
    ▼
    Volume 5
    Place Value, Fractions, and Algebra: Improving Content Learning through the Practice Standards
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    Practice Standards = Perfect Problem Solvers
    Guide Entry
    Torrieann Kennedy
    2.
    Fractions Aren't So Scary! Using the Unit Fraction to Ease the Fear
    Guide Entry
    Josephine Carreno
    3.
    Defending a Fractions Position
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Lee
    4.
    Protect My House: Developing a Family Over the Counter Drug Dosage Chart
    Guide Entry
    Rajendra Jaini
    5.
    Developing Mathematical Minds – Learning Fractions Through Career and Technical
    Guide Entry
    Minerva Jackson
    6.
    Fearless Problem Solvers Can "Express" Themselves Mathematically
    Guide Entry
    Anne Agostinelli
    7.
    The FAL of Linear Relationships: Simple and Complex Word Problem Scenarios with Two Variables
    Guide Entry
    Marissa Brown
    8.
    Using Math Practice Standards to Understand Functions and Their Inverses
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Rudolph
    ▼
    Volume 6
    Microbes Rule!
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul E. Turner, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    1.
    Microbes Rule the School and the Entire Planet
    Guide Entry
    Phil Carver
    2.
    This Means War! The Battle of Humans and Viruses
    Guide Entry
    Troy Holiday
    3.
    The magic of microbes may save our lives!
    Guide Entry
    Maria Orton
    4.
    A Gardenful of Microbes
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    5.
    Microbes as a Driving Force of Change
    Guide Entry
    Arcadia Teel
    6.
    Microbiome within the Circle of Life
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
    7.
    Making connections in science: viruses and the immune system
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Tysiak
    8.
    It'll Make Your Skin Crawl – Microbes and Skin Physiology
    Guide Entry
    Vanessa Vitug

    2013

    Guide to Curriculum Units
    ▼
    Volume 1
    Picture Writing
    Preface
    Introduction by Janice Carlisle, Professor of English
    1.
    Picture-Tellers: How to "Write" a Story, the Kindergarten Way
    Guide Entry
    Katie Adams
    2.
    Our Visible Social Contract
    Guide Entry
    April Higgins
    3.
    One Starfish at a Time: Combining Animals, Art, Literature, and Community Service
    Guide Entry
    Kimberly Towne
    4.
    Seeing Oedipus Rex: Using the Chorus to Understand the Tragedy
    Guide Entry
    Sara Delman
    5.
    Inspiring American Women: Painting Them into the Picture
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Kephart
    6.
    Picturing a Different America: "Reading" Images, Reading Strategies, and Historical Contradiction — Without "Frontloading"?
    Guide Entry
    Sheila McBride
    7.
    Picturing Paris: Sites and Sights of the City
    Guide Entry
    Crecia Cipriano
    8.
    Medals, Monuments, and Money: Nationalist Art in Spain and Mexico
    Guide Entry
    Matthew Kelly
    9.
    Weather and Building Knowledge
    Guide Entry
    Julie So
    10.
    Challenging Perceptions: Persepolis Beyond the American Lens
    Guide Entry
    Amanda Targgart Neeley
    ▼
    Volume 2
    Interpreting Texts, Making Meaning: Starting Small
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    Moving Beyond "Huh?": Ambiguity in Heart of Darkness
    Guide Entry
    Ludy Aguada
    2.
    Pathways to Making Meaning: Inroads to Interpretation of The Nature of Evil in Heart of Darkness
    Guide Entry
    Jo Flory
    3.
    Seasonal Dine/Navajo Poetry: Interpreting the Seasons through Dine/Navajo Culture
    Guide Entry
    LeAndrea James
    4.
    Teaching Post-Civil War History in Document-Based Fiction
    Guide Entry
    Alexandra Edwards
    5.
    Real American: Making Literature a Means for Displacing Native American Stereotypes
    Guide Entry
    Christen Schumacher
    6.
    Interpreting the Urban Landscape
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Miller
    7.
    Interpreting the Literal for the Revelational
    Guide Entry
    Jeffry Weathers
    8.
    Teaching Tone, Mood and Purpose through the Interpretation of Activist Poetry
    Guide Entry
    William Greene
    9.
    Epigraph-allacy: Using Epigraphs to Elicit Student Interpretations
    Guide Entry
    Leilani Esguerra
    10.
    Living Texts: Analyzing S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders by Thinking, Reading, Acting, and Thinking Again
    Guide Entry
    Cheree Charmello
    11.
    Giant Reading with The BFG
    Guide Entry
    Whitney Davis
    ▼
    Volume 3
    The Art of Biography
    Preface
    Introduction by John L. Gaddis, Professor of History
    1.
    The Story of Me
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    2.
    Character Traits in Biography
    Guide Entry
    Torrieann Kennedy
    3.
    Memoir: Magical Moments in Young Children's Lives
    Guide Entry
    Camille Pires
    4.
    From Narratives to Biography: Who will listen to their stories?
    Guide Entry
    Terry Anne Wildman
    5.
    Inspire, Reach, and Teach Through Biography
    Guide Entry
    Lisa Christenson
    6.
    Will They Remember Me? Finding Our Identity by Writing Memoirs and Biographies
    Guide Entry
    Michelle Hilbeck
    7.
    A picture is worth a thousand words: Rediscovering biography
    Guide Entry
    Audra Bull
    8.
    Understanding Character Development Through the Use of Autobiography
    Guide Entry
    Taylor Davis
    9.
    Other's Mistakes Don't Have to be Your Own
    Guide Entry
    Raymond Smith
    10.
    The Significance of My Great-Grandparent
    Guide Entry
    Audrelia Dugi
    11.
    The Tangled Web of Richard III: Shakespeare and the Art of Biography
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Daniell
    12.
    Glory Daze: Gloria Steinem's Biography Untangles the Mystique of Feminism
    Guide Entry
    Sonia Henze
    ▼
    Volume 4
    Invisible Cities: The Arts and Renewable Community
    Preface
    Introduction by Joseph R. Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and Professor of English, of African American and of American Studies
    1.
    The Study of a Zip Code: Tulsa's Invisible City
    Guide Entry
    Krista Waldron
    2.
    Paseo Boricua: Discovering Our Own Division
    Guide Entry
    Andrea Kulas
    3.
    Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure
    Guide Entry
    Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins
    4.
    Travel Stories: Mapping the Vision, Walking the Journey
    Guide Entry
    Gloria Brinkman
    5.
    Invisible Migrations: The Journey from Spanish to English and Back Again Through Performance Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Sydney Coffin
    6.
    People with Disabilities: An Invisible Community
    Guide Entry
    Benjamin Barnett-Perry
    7.
    Appetizers, Main Courses, and Desserts: A Menu of Sociological Research Methods
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    8.
    Invisible Richmond: The History Behind the Urban Landscape
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    9.
    Vacant Lot: The Chicago Ickes Community Remembered
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Weidmann
    10.
    Discovering the Invisible Bay Street: Uncovering Emeryville's History and Understanding Our Own
    Guide Entry
    Sara Stillman
    ▼
    Volume 5
    Energy Sciences
    Preface
    Introduction by Gary W. Brudvig, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    1.
    Energy Usage and Conservation: My Impact on the World
    Guide Entry
    Leonardo DeAndrade
    2.
    Soaking Up the Sun!
    Guide Entry
    Miesha Gadsden
    3.
    A Chemistry Perspective: Gasoline or Biodiesel?
    Guide Entry
    Jinsue Hafalia
    4.
    Fusion: The Energy of the Future?
    Guide Entry
    Eric Laurenson
    5.
    Mathematics of Energy Efficiency: Use Less, Save More
    Guide Entry
    Kenya Lawrence
    6.
    Math Equations of Energy
    Guide Entry
    Luis Magallanes
    7.
    It Don't Come Easy: The Promises and Challenges of Biofuel Production
    Guide Entry
    Robert McDowell
    8.
    From Plants to Horsepower – an Introduction into the World of Oil
    Guide Entry
    Arcadia Teel
    9.
    Nihodzaan (Mother Earth)
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
    ▼
    Volume 6
    Genetic Engineering and Human Health
    Preface
    Introduction by W. Mark Saltzman, Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
    1.
    Imagine the Unimaginable Harnessing the Power of DNA: Principles of Genetic Engineering
    Guide Entry
    Laura Carroll-Koch
    2.
    Genetically Engineering Cures for Single Gene Diseases
    Guide Entry
    Amanda Issa
    3.
    The Evolution of Genetic Engineering
    Guide Entry
    Laura Kessinger
    4.
    Effects of Genetically Modified Organisms on Agriculture
    Guide Entry
    Maria Orton
    5.
    HIV: From Horror to Hope
    Guide Entry
    Timothy Spence
    6.
    Controversial Issues Regarding the Consumption of Genetically Modified Crops
    Guide Entry
    Stuart Surrey
    7.
    DNA in Forensic Science: genetic engineering applications in forensics
    Guide Entry
    Vanessa Vitug

    2012

    Guide to Curriculum Units
    ▼
    Volume 1
    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consumer Culture
    Preface
    Introduction by Jean-Christophe Agnew, Professor of American Studies and History
    1.
    War on the Home Front: Politics and the Zoot Suit
    Guide Entry
    Natalia Gomez
    2.
    Splitting Hairs: Comparing Themes in Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts
    Guide Entry
    Jessica Shupik
    3.
    Seussology: Moral Parables and Consumer Culture
    Guide Entry
    Amanda Davis-Holloway
    4.
    Do We Really Need What We Want?: Consumerism and Second Graders
    Guide Entry
    Mary Grace Flowers
    5.
    Teenage Dream: Consuming Subtext
    Guide Entry
    Andrea Kulas
    6.
    The Stuff We Have: Ethnographies, Material Culture, and Art
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Lasure
    7.
    Present, Past, and Future: Using a Consumer Lens to Help Students Envision a Future
    Guide Entry
    Molly Myers
    8.
    Food Choice: How the ingredients on food packaging influence the foods we eat
    Guide Entry
    Laura Turner
    ▼
    Volume 2
    Storytelling: Fictional Narratives, Imaginary People, and the Reader's Real Life
    Preface
    Introduction by Jill Campbell, Professor of English
    1.
    Non-Violent Fictional Characters as a Means to Character-Building: Ferdinand the Flower-Friendly Bull and Chrysanthemum the Brave Blooming Mouse
    Guide Entry
    Justine Ferguson
    2.
    The Storytelling Cycle: Navigating Our Way through the Listening and Sharing of Stories
    Guide Entry
    Derrick Kimbrough
    3.
    Fact or Fiction: Analyzing why the Author includes Truth in Fiction and the Influence and Effect on the Audience
    Guide Entry
    Michelle Hilbeck
    4.
    Hungry for Knowledge: Using The Hunger Games to teach American Principles of Citizenship
    Guide Entry
    Chantea Wright
    5.
    The Truth about Lies: Recognizing Lies, Stereotypes, and Prejudice through Memoir Reading and Writing
    Guide Entry
    Cheree Charmello
    6.
    Development of the Latina Voice in The House on Mango Street
    Guide Entry
    Joseph Mitacek
    7.
    Reading, Writing, and Recidivism: Healing to Learn through Memoir and Vignette for Adjudicated and/or Traumatized Youth
    Guide Entry
    Krista Waldron
    8.
    Beloved: A Case Study in Storytelling Analysis
    Guide Entry
    Tiffany DiMatteo
    9.
    Empathy Through The Eyes of A Creature: A Journey Into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
    Guide Entry
    Harriet Garcia
    10.
    Stylistic Voice and Questions of Speaking for the Voiceless in The Poisonwood Bible
    Guide Entry
    Kristen Kurzawski
    ▼
    Volume 3
    The American Presidency
    Preface
    Introduction by Bryan Garsten, Professor of Political Science
    1.
    I think, therefore I do? Conscious and unconscious factors influencing our choice for President of the United States
    Guide Entry
    Audra Bull
    2.
    George Washington, Benito Juarez, and Simon Bolivar: an in-depth look into why we remember them.
    Guide Entry
    Elisha Burns
    3.
    The Women's Movement in Presidential Rhetoric
    Guide Entry
    Stefano Cadoppi
    4.
    What the Founders could not have Known
    Guide Entry
    Adam Canning
    5.
    Could YOU be President?: Explaining and Exploring Presidential Possibility through Autobiography
    Guide Entry
    Tara Ann Carter
    6.
    The First Twenty Years: Whiskey, Aliens… and Shopping!
    Guide Entry
    Leonardo DeAndrade
    7.
    Behind the Scenes of the Constitutional Convention
    Guide Entry
    Nicole Fraser
    8.
    The American President and War Powers: Combatting views
    Guide Entry
    Sonia Henze
    9.
    Judges, Presidents, and the People: Who Should Interpret the Constitution?
    Guide Entry
    Daniel Holder
    10.
    Naataanii'
    Guide Entry
    Lucille Mitchell-Gagnon
    11.
    What do Presidents really do?
    Guide Entry
    Ellen Shackelford
    ▼
    Volume 4
    Narratives of Citizenship and Race since Emancipation
    Preface
    Introduction by Jonathan Holloway, Professor of History, African American Studies and American Studies
    1.
    An Introduction to African American Participation in Citizenship
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Boyd
    2.
    Exchanging Letters - Changing Legacies
    Guide Entry
    Jeffry Weathers
    3.
    For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws
    Guide Entry
    Louise Krasnow
    4.
    Our Understanding of the Meaning of Race: A Sociological Critical Lens
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    5.
    From Three Rivers to Arlington: Mexican American Civil Rights to 1954
    Guide Entry
    Matthew Kelly
    6.
    Why do you want my children? A Glimpse into Native American Citizenship
    Guide Entry
    Barsine Benally
    7.
    Diverse Journeys - Americans All!
    Guide Entry
    Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins
    8.
    True Citizenship: A Question of Race
    Guide Entry
    Tauheedah Wren
    9.
    The Resiliency of the Black Family
    Guide Entry
    Joy Beatty
    10.
    Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s
    Guide Entry
    Sydney Coffin
    11.
    The Heart's Migration: Finding, Making, Coming Home
    Guide Entry
    Karen Kennedy
    ▼
    Volume 5
    How Drugs Work
    Preface
    Introduction by W. Mark Saltzman, Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
    1.
    Diné Be'azee': Diné Traditional Medicine
    Guide Entry
    Marilyn Dempsey
    2.
    Can You Pill It? Demystifying Painkillers
    Guide Entry
    Marlene Gutierrez
    3.
    The Down-Low (DL) on High Blood Pressure
    Guide Entry
    Stephen Lewia
    4.
    What Is Going On Inside My Body? An Introduction to the Central Nervous System and the Digestive System
    Guide Entry
    Tracy Lewis
    5.
    A, C, E Detective: Calculating Percentages
    Guide Entry
    Aimee MacSween
    6.
    Toxic Effects of Mercury, Alcohol, and Cannabis on Human Cellular Function
    Guide Entry
    John Miklaszewski
    7.
    Caution! Drug Diffusion Underway: Using Inquiry to Understand How Drugs and the Body Interact
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    8.
    Medicines between Two Worlds
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
    9.
    Cardiovascular Medications, Beta-Blockers and their Effect on Cells
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Smithey
    10.
    Antibacterial Gone Viral – Understanding Immune Response in Bacterial and Viral Infectious Diseases
    Guide Entry
    Vanessa Vitug
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    Volume 6
    Asking Questions in Biology: Discovery versus Knowledge
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul E. Turner, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    1.
    Asking Questions about Learning Disabilities: A Gateway to Self-Determination
    Guide Entry
    Benjamin Barnett-Perry
    2.
    Using Biology to Teach Children to Think Like a Scientist
    Guide Entry
    Emily Dentel
    3.
    Understanding Evolutionary Biology through Physical Adaptations in Insects
    Guide Entry
    Rebekah Edwards
    4.
    No Guts, No Glory
    Guide Entry
    Jane Gerughty
    5.
    Inquiring Minds Want to Know...Teaching Vertebrates through Inquiry
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Gormley
    6.
    Inquiry in the Middle School Classroom: Students as Watershed Stewards
    Guide Entry
    Georgia Karns
    7.
    What Can We Learn About Animals?
    Guide Entry
    Megan McLaughlin
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    Volume 7
    Energy, Environment, and Health
    Preface
    Introduction by John P. Wargo, Tweedy Ordway Professor of Environment, Health, and Politics
    1.
    Quantifying Solutions to Reduce Our Food's Environmental Impact
    Guide Entry
    Anne Agostinelli
    2.
    Solar VS Fossil Fuel Generated Electricity: Can Physics Determine Which is Best For You and Your School?
    Guide Entry
    Brian Barrientez
    3.
    Knowing Your Watershed
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    4.
    Energy, Environment and Health Electromagnetic Fields: Are They Buzzing You?
    Guide Entry
    Kristy Hutton
    5.
    Math Facts of Natural Gas & Pollution
    Guide Entry
    Luis Magallanes
    6.
    Risk Analysis of Shale Drilling Mock Trial: Shale we or Shale we not?
    Guide Entry
    Maria Orton
    7.
    Humans: Champions of Justice or Villains of the Ecosystem?
    Guide Entry
    Jashonai Payne
    8.
    Energy for the Future, Superheroes Need Not Apply
    Guide Entry
    Debra Semmler
    9.
    Processed Food for Thought: Exploring Chemical Additives in Processed Foods
    Guide Entry
    Ann Shioji
    10.
    School Redesign with Environmental Health in Mind
    Guide Entry
    Sara Stillman
    11.
    How Green Is Our School? Energy Conservation Challenge 2012
    Guide Entry
    Amy Thwaite

    2011

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    Volume 1
    The Art of Reading People: Character, Expression, Interpretation
    Preface
    Introduction by Jill Campbell, Professor of English
    1.
    The Other Side: Experiencing Cultures through the Eyes of My Students
    Guide Entry
    Joy Beatty
    2.
    Are You Talkin' to Me? A Bibliotherapeutic Realization of Intelligence and Self-efficacy in Traumatized Adolescents
    Guide Entry
    Audra Bull
    3.
    You'll Stumble in My Footsteps: Character Traits, Choices, and Outcomes in Literature
    Guide Entry
    Lori Hiura
    4.
    Making Friends with Characters: Exploring Friendship through Literature
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Kiesler
    5.
    Approaching Portraiture: The Character on the Page and on the Canvas
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Lasure
    6.
    Reading Independently with the Bluford Series
    Guide Entry
    Marsha Liberatore
    7.
    Taking Pride in Our Character
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Murphy
    8.
    An Unforgettable Snapshot of Reading Character in The Help and Romeo and Juliet
    Guide Entry
    Stacia Parker
    9.
    Reading Between the Lines: The Secret Lives of Characters
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Ventresca
    10.
    Taking a Role in History: Reading Biography with Empathy
    Guide Entry
    Gretchen Wolfe
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    Volume 2
    Love and Politics in the Sonnet
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    Unfettered Genius: The African American Sonnet
    Guide Entry
    Karen Kennedy
    2.
    Lyric Poetry: The Sonnet
    Guide Entry
    Andrea Kulas
    3.
    The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History
    Guide Entry
    Paul Landshof
    4.
    Teaching History through Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Anjali Kamat
    5.
    From Inquiry to Interpretation: A Passage through the Sonnet
    Guide Entry
    Razan Almiladi
    6.
    Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets
    Guide Entry
    Intisar Hamidullah
    7.
    Sounds So Sweet
    Guide Entry
    Torrieann Kennedy
    8.
    Using the Sonnet and Other Poems to Unlock the Speaker's Voice
    Guide Entry
    Denise Hall
    9.
    The Concealed Story
    Guide Entry
    Lori Wiley
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    Volume 3
    The Idea of America
    Preface
    Introduction by Bryan Garsten, Professor of Political Science
    1.
    Let Freedom Ring!
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    2.
    American Ideas in Three Artist Collectives
    Guide Entry
    Emily Faxon
    3.
    My Fellow Americans…A Trip through American History via Presidential Inaugural Addresses
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Gormley
    4.
    Exporting the Idea of America
    Guide Entry
    Amanda Hatcher
    5.
    Reviving American Ideas: The U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists and the 28th Amendment
    Guide Entry
    Sonia Henze
    6.
    American Musicals, American Freedom
    Guide Entry
    Michael Husni
    7.
    American Tapestry: Interconnectedness Revealed through Historical Fiction
    Guide Entry
    Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins
    8.
    An Opportunity for All? Andrew Jackson and the American Indian
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Mitchell-Keita-Doe
    9.
    The Hip-Hopcracy of America
    Guide Entry
    Rodney Robinson
    10.
    The Declaration of Independence: Still Inspiring Americans to Fight for Freedom!
    Guide Entry
    Laura Turner
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    Volume 4
    The Big Easy: Literary New Orleans and Intangible Heritage
    Preface
    Introduction by Joseph R. Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and Professor of English, of African American and of American Studies
    1.
    Performing Resilience: The Study of Culture and the African Diaspora through Literature and Dance
    Guide Entry
    Mika Cade
    2.
    Strange Fruit: An Exploration of Imagery and Socio-politics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
    Guide Entry
    Amanda Davis-Holloway
    3.
    The Intangible Heritage of Diné
    Guide Entry
    Marilyn Dempsey
    4.
    The Scene of the Crime, Mexico City: Performing History in the Language Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Matthew Kelly
    5.
    Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
    Guide Entry
    Andrew Martinek
    6.
    La Francophonie, beyond the Hexagon
    Guide Entry
    Patrizia Mauti
    7.
    Mind the Gap: Planting the Seeds of Cultural Awareness
    Guide Entry
    Molly Myers
    8.
    The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text
    Guide Entry
    Shanedra Nowell
    9.
    The Responsibility Is Ours: Preserving Intangible Heritage
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    10.
    New Orleans: Human Gifts, Human Lessons
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Schaudel
    11.
    'Imaginal' Performances in Memory
    Guide Entry
    Jeffry Weathers
    12.
    Feathers and Beads: Exploring Heritage through the Mardi Gras Indians
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Wesselman
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    Volume 5
    Chemistry of Everyday Things
    Preface
    Introduction by Gary W. Brudvig, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    1.
    Soap: Clean for the Environment or Just Us?
    Guide Entry
    Arlene Burns-Moguel
    2.
    The Problems and Potential of Portable Power
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Fleck
    3.
    It's All about Plastic, Everywhere…
    Guide Entry
    Jane Gerughty
    4.
    Bad Hair Days? Chemistry to the Rescue
    Guide Entry
    Marlene Gutierrez
    5.
    Survival Chemistry: Using Everyday Things to Create Energy and Drinking Water
    Guide Entry
    Rajendra Jaini
    6.
    The Chemistry of Weather
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Johnson
    7.
    Materials for the Future
    Guide Entry
    Sally Martin
    8.
    Trash – Seriously!
    Guide Entry
    Ellen Shackelford
    9.
    I Got the Power! Misconceptions of Recycling Batteries
    Guide Entry
    Nancy VanKirk
    10.
    Polytails and Urban Tumble Weaves: The Chemistry of Synthetic Hair Fibers
    Guide Entry
    Lesia Whitehurst
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    Volume 6
    Great Ideas of Primary Mathematics
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    Using Place Value to Teach Addition and Subtraction, Let's Count the Ways
    Guide Entry
    Emily Dentel
    2.
    Exploring Valuable Places: Extended Place Value Concepts into Operations
    Guide Entry
    Autumn Laidler
    3.
    Cracking the Place Value Code
    Guide Entry
    Kishayla Payne-Miller
    4.
    Algebra Really Is Just Arithmetic
    Guide Entry
    Michael Pillsbury
    5.
    Exponential Explosion: Analyzing Scientific Notation and Its Application to Astronomy and Order of Magnitude
    Guide Entry
    Troy Holiday
    6.
    Fractions: Building a Strong Foundation Based on Conceptual Understanding
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    7.
    A Deeper Understanding of Fractions through Number Line Explorations
    Guide Entry
    Joe Condon
    8.
    A Fraction of What We Know
    Guide Entry
    Jonathan Fantazier
    9.
    What an Expression Expresses
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Kingon
    10.
    Strong Foundations = Success In Equations
    Guide Entry
    Aimee MacSween
    11.
    Boosting Number Sense in High School Students
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Rudolph
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    Volume 7
    Organs and Artificial Organs
    Preface
    Introduction by W. Mark Saltzman, Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
    1.
    Symmetry and Fractals in the Lungs
    Guide Entry
    Shamsu Abdul-Aziz
    2.
    A Recipe for Success: The Semi-sweet Pancreas
    Guide Entry
    Deanna Boyd
    3.
    The Cardiovascular System: Mechanics and Dynamics
    Guide Entry
    Stephen Griffith
    4.
    Building a Heart: The Function and Mechanics
    Guide Entry
    Eric Laurenson
    5.
    There is Math in Your Heart
    Guide Entry
    Luis Magallanes
    6.
    The Perfect Team—Our Heart and Lungs
    Guide Entry
    Kristin (Peterson) Anton
    7.
    Teaching Osmosis and Diffusion through Kidney Dialysis
    Guide Entry
    Amanda Reasoner
    8.
    Diabetes, the Silent Enemy
    Guide Entry
    Jolene Smith
    9.
    Heart Disease, Transplants and New Technology
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Smithey
    10.
    Dimensional Analysis: A Mathematics Tool to Dissect the Circulatory System
    Guide Entry
    Richard Taylor
    11.
    Under Pressure! The Circulatory System and Hypertension
    Guide Entry
    Vanessa Vitug
    12.
    Your Liver, Can It Survive Your Abuse?
    Guide Entry
    Mary Whalen

    2010

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    Volume 1
    Connecting the Visual to the Verbal in the Classroom
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    Art and Poetry of the Afro Mestizos
    Guide Entry
    Yolanda Bezares-Chavez
    2.
    Historical Perspectives through Analysis of Art and Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Renee Kreczmer
    3.
    From the Thoughts of Another: Comprehension through the Genres of Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Chante Givens
    4.
    Exploring Cultural Conflict through Poetry and Art
    Guide Entry
    Anne Marie Esposito
    5.
    Reading Art through Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Sean Griffin
    6.
    Finding the Story through Intermediality: PoetryComics, Animated Poetry and Tableu Vivant
    Guide Entry
    Cara Goldstein
    7.
    Writing about the Big Picture: American Ekphrasis
    Guide Entry
    James Foltz
    8.
    A Palette of Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Rochelle Baba
    9.
    Lying to Tell the Truth: Archetypes, Art, and Imagery
    Guide Entry
    Brook Blaylock
    10.
    Examining Poems about Love and Loss
    Guide Entry
    Karen Scher
    11.
    Demystifying Poetry Using Women's Ekphrasis
    Guide Entry
    Kristen Kurzawski
    ▼
    Volume 2
    Persuasion in Democratic Politics
    Preface
    Introduction by Bryan Garsten, Professor of Political Science
    1.
    Hugo Chávez: ¿Persuasión Retórica o Demagógica?
    Guide Entry
    Maria Cardalliaguet Gómez-Málaga
    2.
    Tune into the Tone: What Should We Hear Here?
    Guide Entry
    Aisha Collins
    3.
    Responsible Citizens Speak Out
    Guide Entry
    Torrieann Kennedy
    4.
    The Role of Persuasion in Global Politics: The United Nations and Millennium Development Goals
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Fetzer
    5.
    Speak up! Presidential Rhetoric in the Modern Era
    Guide Entry
    Sonia Henze
    6.
    Creating Authentic Student Leadership through Rhetoric
    Guide Entry
    Anjali Kamat
    7.
    Educating Tomorrow's Orators
    Guide Entry
    Adam Kubey
    8.
    To Persuade or Not to Persuade: The Makings of a Persuasive Speech
    Guide Entry
    David Probst
    9.
    Barack Obama's Rhetoric: The Trajectory of a Post-Racial America?
    Guide Entry
    Samuel Reed
    10.
    Paths into Excellence: Journal-Writing as Bedrock for Rhetoric
    Guide Entry
    Jeffry Weathers
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    Volume 3
    Creating Lives: An Introduction to Biography
    Preface
    Introduction by Langdon L. Hammer, Professor of English and of American Studies
    1.
    American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy
    Guide Entry
    Holly Banning
    2.
    I Have a Story to Tell: Learning through Peer Biographical Inquiry
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Brown-Bryant
    3.
    Discovering the Entrepreneur
    Guide Entry
    Edina Buzgon
    4.
    Voices of Emery Secondary: An Oral History Project
    Guide Entry
    Mika Cade
    5.
    Approaching Literacy: The Lives of Walt Disney, Helen Keller, and Dr. Seuss
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Johnson
    6.
    Micro Biographical Essays: Students Helping Students Learn about American History
    Guide Entry
    Jeffrey Joyce
    7.
    Biography through the Use of Document-Based Questions
    Guide Entry
    Andrea Kulas
    8.
    Voices of France: Understanding the Power of Individual Voice through Biography
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Monroy
    9.
    Who is Sylvia Plath?–An Inquiry-Based Biography Primer
    Guide Entry
    Molly Myers
    10.
    Barack Obama: A Nonfiction Approach to Reading in the "Reel" World through Documentary, Political Images, and Speech
    Guide Entry
    Stacia Parker
    11.
    Contando Vidas/Telling Life Stories: The Biographies of Influential Hispanics in Our Community
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    12.
    Connecting to Community: Biography and the Digital Age
    Guide Entry
    Dean Whitbeck
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    Volume 4
    The Mathematics of Wallpaper
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    Geometry and the Real World
    Guide Entry
    Shamsu Abdul-Aziz
    2.
    Repeat After Me!
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    3.
    Putting the Pieces Together
    Guide Entry
    Elwanda Butler
    4.
    The Art of Symmetry
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Colombo
    5.
    Beyond the Wumps: Exploring Symmetry in Seventh Grade
    Guide Entry
    Jane Fraser
    6.
    The Power of the Number Line: Building the Bridge from Mathematics to Symmetry
    Guide Entry
    Holly Grandfield
    7.
    Patterns, a Different Point of View
    Guide Entry
    Luis Magallanes
    8.
    Making Connections in Symmetry
    Guide Entry
    Katherine Radcliff
    9.
    Math and Design
    Guide Entry
    Rosemary Schmitt
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    Volume 5
    Nanotechnology and Human Health
    Preface
    Introduction by W. Mark Saltzman, Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
    1.
    The Relative Nature of Size in Biological Sciences: Let's Start Small and Work Our Way Up
    Guide Entry
    Conchita Austin
    2.
    Nanotechnology and Clean Water: How Safe Is Our Drinking Water?
    Guide Entry
    Ram Bhagat
    3.
    Teeny Tiny Wonders: Nanotechnology and Machines
    Guide Entry
    Stephen Griffith
    4.
    Nanotechnology and Quantum Mechanics: Bringing High School Physics into the 21st Century
    Guide Entry
    Eric Laurenson
    5.
    Nanotechnology for Enhancing Math, Science, and Language Arts in the Elementary Grades: How Small Is Your Future?
    Guide Entry
    Doriel Moorman
    6.
    The Size of Matter: Why Properties Change at the Nanoscale
    Guide Entry
    Sharon Mott
    7.
    If You Can See It, It's Not Nano: Working with Numbers at the Extremes
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Rudolph
    8.
    Health and the Invisible World
    Guide Entry
    Mary Whalen
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    Volume 6
    Evolutionary Medicine
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul E. Turner, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    1.
    I Use Sanitizer; Why Do I Still Get Sick?
    Guide Entry
    Vivienne Bartman-McClellan
    2.
    The Impact of Disease on the Civil War
    Guide Entry
    Intisar Hamidullah
    3.
    The Human Impact on the Environment and the Effects on Asthma and Allergies
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Johnson
    4.
    Human Health: Correlation, Causation, and Evolution
    Guide Entry
    Madeline Keleher
    5.
    Nutritional Adaptations and Nutritional Choices
    Guide Entry
    Laura Kessinger
    6.
    Teaching Principles of Evolutionary Medicine through a Historical Lens
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    7.
    AIDS in The Teenage Community
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Smithey
    8.
    Survival of the Fittest?—Evolution and Human Health
    Guide Entry
    Connie Wood

    2009

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    Volume 1
    Storytelling around the Globe
    Preface
    Introduction by Dudley Andrew, Professor of Film and Comparative Literature
    1.
    Using Stories and Film in the English Language Learner Classroom to Teach Immigration History
    Guide Entry
    Darlene Anaya
    2.
    Lo “real maravilloso” y el cine
    Guide Entry
    Maria Cardalliaguet Gómez-Málaga
    3.
    A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character
    Guide Entry
    Jill Spaulding
    4.
    Cinderella: A Cross-cultural Story
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Kite
    5.
    SHAZAM! Exploring Superhero Comics to Study Character Origin and Creative Writing
    Guide Entry
    Karlene McGowen
    6.
    Interpreting Vietnam: War Stories and Film
    Guide Entry
    Kate Reber
    7.
    A Study of Oral Tradition: Storytelling in Ireland, West Africa and Japan
    Guide Entry
    Nicole Schubert
    8.
    Keeping the Tradition of African Storytelling Alive
    Guide Entry
    Octavia Utley
    9.
    The Global Bildungsroman: A Film Study of Individual Identity and Integration into Society
    Guide Entry
    Elouise White-Beck
    10.
    Movie Posters: Capturing the Essence of a Story
    Guide Entry
    Karen Yarnall
    ▼
    Volume 2
    The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the Civil Rights Movement
    Preface
    Introduction by Robert A. Burt, Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law
    1.
    Competing Paths of Struggle: African American Resistance to White Oppression, 1863-1896
    Guide Entry
    Kyle Beckham
    2.
    The Audacity of Hope for a Hopeless Generation
    Guide Entry
    Marlene Cabiness
    3.
    Turning Hope into Reality
    Guide Entry
    Mary Caruso
    4.
    The Great African/African-American Intellectual Tradition for Liberation: Resistance Past, Present and Beyond
    Guide Entry
    Artnelson Concordia
    5.
    Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
    Guide Entry
    Adam Kubey
    6.
    Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
    Guide Entry
    Lynn Pleveich
    7.
    That’s My Right, too: Punishment for Being Different
    Guide Entry
    Joseph Corsetti
    8.
    Setbacks to Suffrage: Inquiry into the Process
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Fetzer
    9.
    Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
    Guide Entry
    Meredith Tilp
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    Volume 3
    Shakespeare and Human Character
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    That Lady is Loca! or Speech as the Main Method of Characterization in Shakespeare's Plays
    Guide Entry
    Amanda Stefanski
    2.
    "Life's But a Poor Player:" Macbeth and Performing Ourselves
    Guide Entry
    Aleco Julius
    3.
    King Lear, Part II--It's All About the Play
    Guide Entry
    Janelle Price
    4.
    Getting to Know Shakespeare's Characters
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    5.
    Shakespeare on the Cell Phone: Texting Romance
    Guide Entry
    Lisa Ernst
    6.
    "A Tide in the Affairs of Men": Looking at Leadership in Shakespeare's Roman Plays
    Guide Entry
    Terri Blackman
    7.
    Single Parenting and Family Dynamics Then and Now: King Lear
    Guide Entry
    Jane Hall
    8.
    African Americans and Shakespeare: Partners in Search of Humanity
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Dowdall
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    Volume 4
    The Sound of Words: An Introduction to Poetry
    Preface
    Introduction by Langdon L. Hammer, Professor of English and of American Studies
    1.
    Embracing the Frumious Bandersnatch: Sound, Rhyme, and Nonsense in Poetry for Young Children
    Guide Entry
    Holly Banning
    2.
    Change Moans and Groans to a Love of Tone: Teaching Students to Listen to Text
    Guide Entry
    Marva Hutchinson
    3.
    Poetic Sounds: Symphonic Synchronization of the Word
    Guide Entry
    Bonnee Breese Bentum
    4.
    Discovering Voice
    Guide Entry
    Andrea Kulas
    5.
    ?Que Bello es el Sonido de la Poes?a! Teaching Sounds and Culture through Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Thelma Uzeta
    6.
    The Unknown Voice of My Students
    Guide Entry
    Martha Tamez
    7.
    Speak Up and Sound Off! Vocal and Rhythmic Patterns in Public Speaking
    Guide Entry
    Nicole Dobbs
    8.
    The Sound Within: An Exploration of Prosodic Elements in Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Cheree Charmello
    9.
    Listen to the Sound of My Voice: Teaching Poetry to Make Language Whole
    Guide Entry
    Jeanette Gibson
    10.
    The Sound of Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Melissa McCormack
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    Volume 5
    Green Chemistry
    Preface
    Introduction by Gary W. Brudvig, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    1.
    "How Much Is Too Much"? Teaching Measurement and Solution Concentration through Bioaccumulation and Levels of Toxicity
    Guide Entry
    Myrna Alvarez
    2.
    Reducing the Environmental Impact of the Green Industry with Green Chemistry
    Guide Entry
    Justin Benz
    3.
    It's Not Waste: Teaching Recycling through Density, Phase Change and Solubility
    Guide Entry
    Victoria Deschere
    4.
    Green Chemistry: The Future Is in Your Hands
    Guide Entry
    Stephen Griffith
    5.
    Effects of Rates of Change and Accumulated Change in a Throw-Away Society
    Guide Entry
    Joseph Irizarry
    6.
    Using Green to Catalyze the Changing of The World
    Guide Entry
    Rajendra Jaini
    7.
    Experiencing Positive Relationships with Managing the Environment
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Johnson
    8.
    What's Your Green Bottom Line? The Truth About What We Leave Behind
    Guide Entry
    Kathryn Kinsman
    9.
    Green Chemistry: Is Water, Water?
    Guide Entry
    Francisca Rebullida
    10.
    The Science of Environmental Justice: Can Green Chemistry Change Our World?
    Guide Entry
    Catherine Salvin
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    Volume 6
    The Brain in Health and Disease
    Preface
    Introduction by W. Mark Saltzman, Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
    1.
    An Investigative Approach to the Brain: The 5 Senses, the 5W's and an H
    Guide Entry
    Vivienne Bartman-McClellan
    2.
    Sensing Our Five Senses
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    3.
    Mathematics and the Brain: Easy as 1-2-3 Simple Like A-B-C
    Guide Entry
    Karen Brinkley
    4.
    Memory Boot Camp
    Guide Entry
    Shelley Freedman-Bailey
    5.
    An Investigation into Learning Using the Regions of the Brain
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Gormley
    6.
    This Is Your Brain…This is Your Brain on Fire…Any Questions?
    Guide Entry
    Sharyn Gray
    7.
    The Brain Desynchronized
    Guide Entry
    Eric Laurenson
    8.
    Our Brain's Fat and Carbohydrate Connection
    Guide Entry
    Sharon Mott
    9.
    Brain Structure and Function and Disease
    Guide Entry
    Chanh Quach
    10.
    Art is Not Just in the Eye of the Beholder But in the Brain
    Guide Entry
    Kimberly Towne
    11.
    Neurobiology Using BOTH Sides of the Brain
    Guide Entry
    Connie Wood
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    Volume 7
    Energy, Climate, Environment
    Preface
    Introduction by John P. Wargo, Tweedy Ordway Professor of Environment, Health, and Politics
    1.
    Flexible Enthusiasm: Consumption and Awareness of Plastics in Our Lives
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Brown-Bryant
    2.
    Energy Quest: Exploring Sun, Wind, and Water
    Guide Entry
    Ann-Marie Chiyeni
    3.
    EFP&W: Energy Food-Production & Waste
    Guide Entry
    Kelly Clark
    4.
    Toxic, Persistent Chemicals in Human Environments: Case Studies of Agent Orange Use in Vietnam, 1965-1970 and Methyl Mercury in Minamata Bay, Japan, 1932-1968
    Guide Entry
    Jeffrey Davis
    5.
    Math and Consequences: Environmental Context in Math Instruction
    Guide Entry
    Jonathan Fantazier
    6.
    Unconventional Transportation
    Guide Entry
    Laura Kessinger
    7.
    Energy, Climate, Environment: What's Plastic Got To Do with It?
    Guide Entry
    Doriel Moorman
    8.
    Teaching Ecology Principles through the Study of an Ecosystem
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    9.
    Social and Cultural Shifts in the Wake of Climate Change
    Guide Entry
    Francisca Sorensen
    10.
    Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Oh My!
    Guide Entry
    Huwerl Thornton, Jr.
    11.
    Learning Ecology through Endangered Species
    Guide Entry
    Cynthia Woolery

    2008

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    Volume 1
    Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    Men vs. Women: Examining the Relationship between Genre and Gender in Shakespeare
    Guide Entry
    Kristen Kurzawski
    2.
    Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
    Guide Entry
    Marialuisa Sapienza
    3.
    English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Prillaman
    4.
    Shakespeare's Characters: A Visual Analysis
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Sandoval
    5.
    To See or Not to See? A Visual Approach to Identity in Shakespeare
    Guide Entry
    Kimberly Towne
    6.
    Shakespeare's World: an Integrated Unit for Third Grade
    Guide Entry
    Catherine Perez
    7.
    Queen Elizabeth's Influence on Disguise in Shakespeare's Plays and Spenser's The Faerie Queene
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Humphrey
    8.
    The Language of Power in Shakespeare
    Guide Entry
    Raymond Theilacker
    9.
    Religious Elements in Shakespeare's Hamlet
    Guide Entry
    Pamela Ronson
    10.
    Detecting Shakespeare's Sonnets
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Samuel
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    Volume 2
    American Voices: Listening to Fiction, Poetry, and Prose
    Preface
    Introduction by Langdon L. Hammer, Professor of English and of American Studies
    1.
    Voice in Poetry: Dream a World with Langston Hughes
    Guide Entry
    Octavia Utley
    2.
    The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice
    Guide Entry
    Zuri Bryant
    3.
    The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters
    Guide Entry
    Nicole Schubert
    4.
    Speak Words, Recite Messages: The Oral Interpretation of the Word
    Guide Entry
    Bonnee Breese Bentum
    5.
    "Lift Every Voice and Sing" An Analysis of Social Change "Hope" through Voices of Hip-Hop
    Guide Entry
    Sharon Ponder
    6.
    In Their Shoes: Finding Voice through Personal Narrative
    Guide Entry
    Victoria Deschere
    7.
    Getting Into Character: Finding Voice in Realistic Fiction
    Guide Entry
    Karlene McGowen
    8.
    Finding One's Voice
    Guide Entry
    Danielle Gothie
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    Volume 3
    Democracy in Theory and Practice
    Preface
    Introduction by Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center
    1.
    Road to the White House: Campaign for the Presidency
    Guide Entry
    Adam Kubey
    2.
    I'll Vote for That, but Why? The United States Constitution and Presidential Elections
    Guide Entry
    Lisa Lee
    3.
    The Elections of 1800 and 2000. How Crisis Elections Have Shaped the Practice of Democracy in United States History
    Guide Entry
    Ralph Russo
    4.
    Our Spiritual Strivings: Understanding African American Identities in a Conflicted American Democracy
    Guide Entry
    Jesse Senechal
    5.
    Democracy (in)Action: Promoting Critical Youth Consciousness and Participation
    Guide Entry
    Artnelson Concordia
    6.
    Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One: An Examination of Democratic and Other Political Values as Depicted in Literature
    Guide Entry
    Elouise White-Beck
    7.
    Why Rome Fell and Is the United States Next?
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Pooner
    8.
    Is America a Successful Democracy: A Critical Inquiry
    Guide Entry
    Meagan McGowan
    9.
    Taxes, Rebellion, and the Birth of a New Nation
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    10.
    MySpace in Democracy: inquiry on how social networks and media technologies promote and disrupt democratic practices
    Guide Entry
    Samuel Reed
    11.
    Democracy, Terrorism and the American Criminal Justice System
    Guide Entry
    Christine Shaub
    12.
    Who decides who benefits? A comparative view of wealth distribution using examples from New Mexico's Legislature, Santa Fe City and the Pueblo of Pojoaque
    Guide Entry
    Meredith Tilp
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    Volume 4
    Bridges: The Art and Science for Creating Community Connections
    Preface
    Introduction by Martin D. Gehner, Professor Emeritus of Architectural Engineering
    1.
    Puentes, Civilizaciones y Cultura
    Guide Entry
    Maria Cardalliaguet Gómez-Málaga
    2.
    Building Bridges in Earthquake Country: From the Past to the Present
    Guide Entry
    Lisa Ernst
    3.
    Learning by Mistakes-Bridge Failures
    Guide Entry
    Shelley Freedman-Bailey
    4.
    Building Bridges Over Turbulent Middle School Waters
    Guide Entry
    Kennan Girdner
    5.
    The Art, Science, and Mathematics of Bridges: An Integrated Unit for Middle School
    Guide Entry
    Joan Henderson
    6.
    Terrific Ts- Truss, Triangle, Tangram and Technology Exploring Bridge Design with the Elementary Student
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Johnson
    7.
    The Design and Analysis of Structures
    Guide Entry
    Debra Semmler
    8.
    The Use of Bridge Design in Teaching Mechanics
    Guide Entry
    Stuart Surrey
    9.
    Bridges: Inspired by Nature
    Guide Entry
    Karen Yarnall
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    Volume 5
    Estimation
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    Each Number in Its Place: Teaching Place Value to First Graders
    Guide Entry
    Carol Boynton
    2.
    Take Your Best Guess: Exploring 1, 10 and 100
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Kiesler
    3.
    The Amazing Zero; Starring in: "Place Value, Estimation and Order of Magnitude"
    Guide Entry
    Vivienne Bartman-McClellan
    4.
    Crunching Numbers for Lunch
    Guide Entry
    Sharyn Gray
    5.
    Ballpark Figures: Quantitative Inquiries of Baseball and Beyond!
    Guide Entry
    Kathryn Kinsman
    6.
    The Power of Estimation
    Guide Entry
    Francisca Rebullida
    7.
    Rice to Feed the World- Estimations on Rice Consumption and Production
    Guide Entry
    Elaine Tam
    8.
    Estimation in Ecology - the Horseshoe Crab Census
    Guide Entry
    Brian Bell
    9.
    Estimation: What's the Big Deal?
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Marasco
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    Volume 6
    Nutrition, Metabolism, and Diabetes
    Preface
    Introduction by W. Mark Saltzman, Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
    1.
    Eat to Live: The Connection between Food, Digestion and Diabetes
    Guide Entry
    Emily Betts
    2.
    Fast Food, Fast Track… To No Where
    Guide Entry
    Karen Brinkley
    3.
    Healthy Choices Lead To Healthy Bodies! A Child's Guide to Good Nutrition and Exercise
    Guide Entry
    Brian Coons
    4.
    Getting an Early Start to a Healthy Life
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Gormley
    5.
    Stoichiometry - A Necessary Tool in Chemistry
    Guide Entry
    Aruna Kailasa
    6.
    Food Allergies Beware: We Know your Secret!
    Guide Entry
    Lori Paderewski
    7.
    Feeding our Bodies, Fueling our Minds
    Guide Entry
    Christina Pavlak
    8.
    The Way Food Works: Analyzing the Short and Long Term Effects of What We Eat
    Guide Entry
    Kristin (Peterson) Anton
    9.
    School Lunch, How Healthy Is It?
    Guide Entry
    Sara Thomas
    10.
    Childhood Obesity and High Fructose Corn Syrup. What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing!
    Guide Entry
    Huwerl Thornton, Jr.
    11.
    Developing Student Leaders through Nutritional Empowerment
    Guide Entry
    Cynthia Woolery
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    Volume 7
    Urban Environmental Quality and Human Health: Conceiving a Sustainable Future
    Preface
    Introduction by John P. Wargo, Tweedy Ordway Professor of Environment, Health, and Politics
    1.
    What Is She Eating?
    Guide Entry
    Myrna Alvarez
    2.
    Eat, Drink, and Be Wary: Recognizing Toxic Chemicals in Foods and Beverages
    Guide Entry
    Ram Bhagat
    3.
    Relating Air Quality and Prevalence of Asthma in Children
    Guide Entry
    Ella Boyd
    4.
    Our Environment: A World Away?
    Guide Entry
    Michell Carter
    5.
    Considering Case Studies of Chemical Contamination
    Guide Entry
    Jeffrey Davis
    6.
    Life Cycle Analysis of an ordinary plastic water bottle
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Esty
    7.
    Mercury: An assessment of its life
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Harvey
    8.
    Many Neighborhoods -- One Community: Learning Chemistry through the History of the Hunters Point Naval Station
    Guide Entry
    Sally Meneely
    9.
    The Effect of Vehicular Emissions on Human Health
    Guide Entry
    Ronni Rossman
    10.
    Environmental Health Issues Meet Algebra
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Rudolph
    11.
    Effects of Plastics on Top Predators' Health
    Guide Entry
    Francisca Sorensen

    2007

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    Volume 1
    Adapting Literature
    Preface
    Introduction by Dudley Andrew, Professor of Film and Comparative Literature
    1.
    The Odyssey: Seeing My Journey through Film
    Guide Entry
    Susan Greene
    2.
    Hamlet and Hollywood: Using Film Adaptation to Analyze Ophelia and Gertrude
    Guide Entry
    Kristen Kurzawski
    3.
    Macbeth and Issues of Gender
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Samuel
    4.
    Modernizing Shakespeare: Finding Contemporary Themes from Othello
    Guide Entry
    Thomas Vari
    5.
    War of the Worlds-Multimedia Adaptations
    Guide Entry
    Claudia Miller
    6.
    The Color Purple's Three-Fold Adaptation: Examining Protagonists and Media through a Self-Reflective, Critical Lens
    Guide Entry
    Ane Ebie-Mouton
    7.
    Blade Runner Redux: Teaching a Sci-Fi Meta-Art Classic
    Guide Entry
    Clary Carleton
    8.
    Spanish Cultures Through Film and Literature
    Guide Entry
    Maria Cardalliaguet Gómez-Málaga
    9.
    Using Film and Literature to examine The Great black Migration: An Analysis of "A Raisin in the Sun" through poetic voices
    Guide Entry
    Sharon Ponder
    10.
    Political Socialization: Finding Ourselves in Film
    Guide Entry
    Jeffrey Joyce
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    Volume 2
    Across the Curriculum with Detective Fiction for Young People and Adults
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    Using Walter Mosley Detective Novels (Devil in a Blue Dress) to Motivate Reluctant High School Readers
    Guide Entry
    Jessica Colbert
    2.
    Using a Mystery Novel to Encourage Pleasure Reading and Imaginative Thinking
    Guide Entry
    Cathy Kinzler
    3.
    Using Detective Fiction to Reinforce Problem Solving Strategies and the Scientific Method
    Guide Entry
    Ella Boyd
    4.
    D. I. E.
    Guide Entry
    Mary Lou Narowski
    5.
    Uncloaking the Clues: Details, Daggers, and Detection
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Dabbs
    6.
    Crime Fiction Investigation: "Socially Correct or Not, Let Me Tell You Who Did It"
    Guide Entry
    Bonnee Breese Bentum
    7.
    Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction
    Guide Entry
    Laura Sturgeon
    8.
    More Than Just Whodunit - Using a Mystery Story to Motivate Tenth-Grade Students to Read
    Guide Entry
    William Lewis
    9.
    Police Investigative Challenges: To Snitch or Not to Snitch, That is the Unanswered Question
    Guide Entry
    Christine Shaub
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    Volume 3
    Maps and Mapmaking
    Preface
    Introduction by Mary E. Miller, Sterling Professor of History of Art and Dean of Yale College
    1.
    The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Freedom: Using Slave Narratives and Negro Spirituals as Maps
    Guide Entry
    Sheila Carter-Jones
    2.
    Mapping Change: How Colonialism Changed a Man, His Community, and His Culture
    Guide Entry
    Anne Marie Esposito
    3.
    Maps and Mapmaking for the Artist
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Lasure
    4.
    The Beautiful Art of Map Making
    Guide Entry
    Mayra Muller-Schmidt
    5.
    Mapping + Episodic Short Short Stories = Classroom Writing Success
    Guide Entry
    Janelle Price
    6.
    The Rhetoric of Maps and the Westward Expansion of the United States
    Guide Entry
    Ralph Russo
    7.
    Santa Fe and the World: Maps and Mapmaking of People, Places and Poverty
    Guide Entry
    Meredith Tilp
    8.
    Portraits of Places: Maps and Art from the European City View to the Aboriginal Dreamtime Paintings
    Guide Entry
    Kimberly Towne
    9.
    Mapping the Great Migration 1916-1930: African American Movement from the South to the North
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Felder
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    Volume 4
    Latino Cultures and Communities
    Preface
    Introduction by Stephen Joseph Pitti, Professor of History and of American Studies
    1.
    Boricua, Morena: Latin-Caribbean American and African American Cultural Connections En ciudad de Filadelfia
    Guide Entry
    Samuel Reed
    2.
    Examining Mexican Immigration Thru First Person Point-of-view
    Guide Entry
    Nicole Schubert
    3.
    Context Clues: The Appropriation of Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe
    Guide Entry
    Sara Thomas
    4.
    I Know You Are, but What Am I? A Latino Literature Unit
    Guide Entry
    Raymond Theilacker
    5.
    Latino Children's Folk Music: A Series of Thematic Writing Exercises
    Guide Entry
    Yvette Carter
    6.
    La voz y la vida: Literacy and Identity in Young Latino Immigrant Students
    Guide Entry
    Paulina Salvador
    7.
    Cuéntame Una Historia, Por Favor! (Tell Me A Story, Please!)
    Guide Entry
    Kathy Zimbaldi
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    Volume 5
    Renewable Energy
    Preface
    Introduction by Gary W. Brudvig, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    1.
    Petroleum: Our Best Transportation Option?
    Guide Entry
    Justin Benz
    2.
    Solar energy: Using Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere to Produce a Viable Fuel Source
    Guide Entry
    Emily Betts
    3.
    Environmentalists and Chemists Unite: A Chemistry Class for our Changing World
    Guide Entry
    Cherisse Campbell
    4.
    Catch the Wind
    Guide Entry
    Jeffrey Davis
    5.
    Stylin' Your Ride: A Student's Guide to Designing Green Vehicles
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Esty
    6.
    The Power of the Sun
    Guide Entry
    Danielle Gothie
    7.
    Solar Energy -- Architectural Alternatives for Home Building
    Guide Entry
    Georgia Redonet
    8.
    Modeling Photosynthesis
    Guide Entry
    Connie Wood
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    Volume 6
    Keeping the Meaning in Mathematics: The Craft of Word Problems
    Preface
    Introduction by Roger E. Howe, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    1.
    Teaching Addition and Subtraction Word Problems to Children
    Guide Entry
    Tanya Shannon
    2.
    Crafting Word Problems Even a Child Can Do
    Guide Entry
    Huwerl Thornton, Jr.
    3.
    A = C - B: Subtraction is the Cousin of Addition
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Wasser
    4.
    Word Problems in Picture Books: Literature as a Source of Math Word Problems
    Guide Entry
    Karlene McGowen
    5.
    Dr. Word Problem - Solving Word Problems with the Four Operations Using Singapore Bar Models
    Guide Entry
    Valerie Schwarz
    6.
    Percents in Real Life Situations
    Guide Entry
    Moses Jackson
    7.
    Linear Expressions and Evaluations
    Guide Entry
    Angel Johnson
    8.
    The Art of Solving Word Problems by Using Proportions
    Guide Entry
    Jill Smith
    9.
    Word Problems: Looking for the Similarities in Problems to Help Categorize and Solve Them
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Marasco
    10.
    Assisting the Transition from English to Mathematical Language
    Guide Entry
    Paula Shaffer-Roche
    11.
    Applying System of Equations to Real-World Scenarios: A Practical Curriculum
    Guide Entry
    Tyler Willoughby
    12.
    Quadratic Equations in Word Problems Students Can Relate To
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Rudolph
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    Volume 7
    The Science and Technology of Space
    Preface
    Introduction by Sabatino Sofia, Professor of Astronomy
    1.
    The Origin of the Elements
    Guide Entry
    Stuart Surrey
    2.
    Beyond The Atom: Interpreting the Origin of the Elements
    Guide Entry
    Ram Bhagat
    3.
    Are We Alone?
    Guide Entry
    Eric Laurenson
    4.
    The Integration of Space Technology into the Physics Classroom
    Guide Entry
    Debra Semmler
    5.
    Traveling the Solar System through Literature
    Guide Entry
    Lori Paderewski
    6.
    Space Illustrated: There and Back
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Natale
    7.
    The Science and Technology of the Apollo Space Program
    Guide Entry
    Francisca Rebullida

    2006

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    Volume 1
    Stories around the World in Film
    Preface
    Introduction by Dudley Andrew, Professor of Film and Comparative Literature
    1.
    Cultural Literacy through Media: Breaking Down Stereotypes by Building Up Knowledge
    Guide Entry
    Erin Ellis
    2.
    Life Made Aware: Scripting Lives through Eyes Only
    Guide Entry
    Bonnee Breese Bentum
    3.
    The Spanish Civil War through Film
    Guide Entry
    Maria Cardalliaguet Gómez-Málaga
    4.
    Women in World Cinema: Stories of Struggle and Resistance
    Guide Entry
    Clary Carleton
    5.
    The Delicate Marriage of Theatre and Film
    Guide Entry
    Michea Carter
    6.
    Uniting Children of the World through Film: Planning an International Film Festival for Middle School Students
    Guide Entry
    Lynn Marsico
    7.
    Oral Tradition and Memory in African Film
    Guide Entry
    Claudia Miller
    8.
    I Search - Exploring Culture and Gender through Films Made in or about China
    Guide Entry
    Samuel Reed
    9.
    From Africa to America: The Untold Story
    Guide Entry
    Beverly Rice-Hooper
    10.
    Raising Social Consciousness
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Vermillion
    11.
    The Rhetorical Nature of Narrative
    Guide Entry
    Eric Whiteside
    12.
    Back to the Future: How Earlier Art Forms Have Influenced Contemporary Cinema in Ireland, Iran, and Africa
    Guide Entry
    Laura Sturgeon
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    Volume 2
    The Supreme Court in American Political History
    Preface
    Introduction by Robert A. Burt, Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law
    1.
    The Language of Justice
    Guide Entry
    Daniel Addis
    2.
    The Powers We Accept: A Brief Unit on the Supreme Court
    Guide Entry
    Justin Boucher
    3.
    Why Do We Have to Rely on the Supreme Court? An Interactive Examination of How the Supreme Court Shapes Policy through Individual Rights and Public Opinion
    Guide Entry
    Florilis Davis, Jr.
    4.
    Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education
    Guide Entry
    Danielle Gothie
    5.
    Obedience and Defiance: The Rule of Law in American History
    Guide Entry
    Jeffrey Joyce
    6.
    Chinese Immigration, Exclusion and the Chinese-American Experience
    Guide Entry
    Deborah Samuel
    7.
    Our Right to Read, to Learn, and to Think: Ray Bradbury's Prediction
    Guide Entry
    Elouise White-Beck
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    Volume 3
    Children's Literature, Infancy to Early Adolescence
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    Picture This: A Journey through Fairy Tale Production
    Guide Entry
    Sara Thomas
    2.
    Teaching the Elements of Literature Using Stories from Infancy to Age-appropriate
    Guide Entry
    Thomas Vari
    3.
    Reading as an Act of Creating Value: Character Education in a Public Montessori School
    Guide Entry
    Sheila Carter-Jones
    4.
    Examining War through a Child's Perspective
    Guide Entry
    Isabel Carter
    5.
    "Hey Wait! I Think I've Read about Something Like That!" Using Bibliotherapy to Help Teenagers Cope with Issues in Their Lives
    Guide Entry
    Katrina Short
    6.
    Students: Take Charge of Your Reading
    Guide Entry
    Lorena Amos
    7.
    From Aztecs to Aztlan: Building Cultural Bridges through Literature
    Guide Entry
    Nancy Wasser
    8.
    Fantasy Books: There's a Whole Other World Out There
    Guide Entry
    Karlene McGowen
    9.
    Using African and African-American Folktales in a Genre Study
    Guide Entry
    Rita Sorrentino
    10.
    The Big Con: Tricking the High School Student into Writing a Research Paper
    Guide Entry
    Sarah Humphrey
    11.
    Children's Literature for Students with Reading Challenges Using Pictures Books and Film
    Guide Entry
    Jurline Franklin
    12.
    Using Traditional Literature to Address Standards
    Guide Entry
    Alison Kennedy
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    Volume 4
    Native America: Understanding the Past through Things
    Preface
    Introduction by Mary E. Miller, Sterling Professor of History of Art and Dean of Yale College
    1.
    Let Our Things Speak True: Native American Writers Journey Back
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Dowdall
    2.
    Things, Foods, and How We Know
    Guide Entry
    Jennifer Esty
    3.
    Native American Art Traditions in the Middle School Arts Curriculum
    Guide Entry
    Kennan Girdner
    4.
    The Circle of Life
    Guide Entry
    Jayme Hicks
    5.
    Culture Graphics -- An Experience with Native American Things for the Elementary Student
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Johnson
    6.
    Native American Traditions and Identity in the Art Room
    Guide Entry
    Cristian Koshock
    7.
    Noble Savage: Depictions of Native Americans throughout U.S. History
    Guide Entry
    Teresa Pardee
    8.
    Mythology of the Inca and Maya
    Guide Entry
    Janelle Price
    9.
    Native American Music and Dance
    Guide Entry
    Enetta Rose
    10.
    Symbols of Hierarchy: Things of Bling in the Pre-Columbian Americas
    Guide Entry
    Ralph Russo
    11.
    The Popol Vuh: A High School Literature Unit
    Guide Entry
    Raymond Theilacker
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    Volume 5
    The Science of Global Warming
    Preface
    Introduction by Sabatino Sofia, Professor of Astronomy
    1.
    Global Warming: Is Our Local Environment Ready for the Change?
    Guide Entry
    Justin Benz
    2.
    The Consequences of Global Warming on Human Health
    Guide Entry
    Ella Boyd
    3.
    Educating the Community about Global Warming and Sea Level Rise through Earth Day
    Guide Entry
    Matthew Cacopardo
    4.
    Global Warming: A Physical Explanation and Implications on Climate
    Guide Entry
    Eric Laurenson
    5.
    Teaching Science and Global Warming
    Guide Entry
    Michele Murzak
    6.
    A Planet Worth a Thousand Words: An English Teacher's Guide to Global Warming
    Guide Entry
    Kimberlee Presswood
    7.
    The Case for Biodiesel with Selected Experiments
    Guide Entry
    Matthew Van Kouwenberg

    2005

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    Volume 1
    The Uses of Poetry in the Classroom
    Preface
    Introduction by Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English
    1.
    Discovering Self through Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Carolyn Clark
    2.
    Thematic Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop
    Guide Entry
    Monica Jackson
    3.
    Making the Relevant Connection: The Middle School Student and Poetry An Understanding and Appreciation of Poetry to Inspire the Poet Within
    Guide Entry
    Maureen Lynch
    4.
    Leaving, Longing, and Left Behind: Poems of Home
    Guide Entry
    Mary Moran
    5.
    Rhymes and Rhythms of Black History
    Guide Entry
    Jacqueline Porter-Clinton
    6.
    A Curriculum Unit in Poetry for Vocational Students
    Guide Entry
    Raymond Theilacker
    7.
    Who’s Your Daddy? Comprehension Strategies and Poetry Basics through Poems about Fathers
    Guide Entry
    Mnikesa Whitaker
    8.
    Crime and Poetry: Examining Crimes Against Humanity Through the Poetry of the Oppressed, Specifically Poetry from the African American Experience Through the Jim Crow Era, and The Holocaust
    Guide Entry
    Cary Brandenberger
    9.
    A Century of War in Poetry: 1915-2015
    Guide Entry
    Kinta Flemming
    10.
    Looking Forward: Whitman and the Creative Spirit in American Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Clary Carleton
    11.
    Studying the Sonnet: An Introduction to the Importance of Form in Poetry
    Guide Entry
    Lynn Marsico
    12.
    The Inspired Voice: Invoking Poetry through Music
    Guide Entry
    Kimberlee Presswood
    13.
    Poetry's Idyllic and Intriguing Patterns for Kindergarten
    Guide Entry
    Stephanie Johnson
    14.
    Building Blocks for Poetry: Vertical Team Sequencing for Effective Poetic Analysis
    Guide Entry
    Susan Greene
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    Volume 2
    Art and Identity in Mexico, from Olmec Times to the Present
    Preface
    Introduction by Mary E. Miller, Sterling Professor of History of Art and Dean of Yale College
    1.
    Taste the Richness of Mexico
    Guide Entry
    Patricia Gordon
    2.
    The Ceramic History of the Olmec Culture
    Guide Entry
    Elizabeth Lasure
    3.
    Studying the Biographies of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
    Guide Entry
    Karlene McGowen
    4.
    "Viva La Raza", Students inherit their Culture through Art research
    Guide Entry
    Mayra Muller-Schmidt
    5.
    Conflict and Resolution through Sports: A Question of Civil Rights: The 1968 Olympics and Tlatelolco
    Guide Entry
    Carol Petett
    6.
    Representations of Family in Mexican Art
    Guide Entry
    Alexandra Reyes
    7.
    Multiple Perspectives on the Spanish Invasion of Mexico
    Guide Entry
    Ralph Russo
    8.
    An Approach to Biology, Population Dynamics, and Disease via the Analysis of Mexican Art, History, and Texts
    Guide Entry
    Yvonne Spinner
    9.
    The Influence of Mexican Muralists on Wpa Art
    Guide Entry
    Donna Sussman
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    Volume 3
    War and Civil Liberties
    Preface
    Introduction by Rogers M. Smith, Professor of Political Science
    1.
    The Courage to Be An Enemy of the People
    Guide Entry
    Daniel Addis
    2.
    The Critical Balance Threatened: Personal Liberties and National Security in Time of War
    Guide Entry
    Charles Avery
    3.
    Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: Using Enlightenment Philosophy to Teach Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
    Guide Entry
    Justin Boucher
    4.
    Science, Safety, and Civil Liberties
    Guide Entry
    Victoria Brown
    5.
    Citizen Voices in Peace and War: A Portal into Ap English Lit
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Dowdall
    6.
    Biblioclasm: The Organized Destruction of Books
    Guide Entry
    Jayme Hicks
    7.
    Racial Profiling and Terrorism
    Guide Entry
    Ralph Holmes
    8.
    Postmodernism and the Flexibility of the Constitution
    Guide Entry
    Jeffrey Joyce
    9.
    Free, but Not Free: Civil Liberties in a Time of War
    Guide Entry
    Keysiah Middleton
    10.
    Precedents for the Usa Patriot Act: Military Tribunals
    Guide Entry
    Mary Ann Natunewicz
    11.
    A Long Road to Liberty
    Guide Entry
    Amanda Sanders
    12.
    Dilemma of a Democracy: Liberty and Security
    Guide Entry
    Rita Sorrentino
    13.
    Arthur Miller's History Lesson: The Crucible as a Link from the Past through Mccarthyism to Present-Day Terrorism
    Guide Entry
    Elouise White-Beck
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    Volume 4
    Astronomy and Space Sciences
    Preface
    Introduction by Sabatino Sofia, Professor of Astronomy
    1.
    Mathematical Tools to Obtain Astronomical Knowledge
    Guide Entry
    Barbara Burton
    2.
    Is There Life Out There?
    Guide Entry
    Marty Cummings
    3.
    Volcanoes in the Solar System
    Guide Entry
    Mary Jefferson
    4.
    The Birth of the Universe: The Current State of Cosmology
    Guide Entry
    Eric Laurenson
    5.
    Algebra in Elementary Astronomy and Space Science
    Guide Entry
    Ishan Malik
    6.
    Dreams Toward the Stars: A View of the Solar System from Earth
    Guide Entry
    Janet Purvis
    7.
    Qu’est-ce qu’il y a dans le ciel etoile? Basic Astronomy for Middle School French Students
    Guide Entry
    Crecia Cipriano
    8.
    Why Earth? A Study of Planetary Habitability
    Guide Entry
    Kathleen Thompson
    9.
    The Use of Astronomy to Teach Statistical Concepts
    Guide Entry
    Michael Vasileff
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