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Index of all Curriculum Units, 2005-2024
section "C"
Selecting a Unit number will take you to the Guide Entry for that Unit.
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Directory of Volumes | Yale National Initiative
Carver, George Washington
17.04.10 Confectionery Chemistry: Shifting the Contents of Chocolate
10.03.01 American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy
Chavez, Cesar
15.01.08 Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders
11.03.10 The Declaration of Independence: Still Inspiring Americans to Fight for Freedom!
10.03.11 Contando Vidas/Telling Life Stories: The Biographies of Influential Hispanics in Our Community
Chemistry
and Food (see Food)
19.04.04 Transfer of Energy through a Food Chain
18.05.07 Chemical Footprints: Health Threats of Food Toxins?
17.04.03 Food Preservation: From Edible School Garden to Science Table
17.04.04 The Power of Extracts
17.04.06 Rise and Bind: Substituting binders and flours in pancakes
17.04.08 Science of Sugar
17.04.10 Confectionery Chemistry: Shifting the Contents of Chocolate
13.06.04 Effects of Genetically Modified Organisms on Agriculture
13.06.06 Controversial Issues Regarding the Consumption of Genetically Modified Crops
12.07.09 Processed Food for Thought: Exploring Chemical Additives in Processed Foods
09.06.08 Our Brain's Fat and Carbohydrate Connection
08.06.05 Stoichiometry - A Necessary Tool in Chemistry
08.06.11 Developing Student Leaders through Nutritional Empowerment
08.07.01 What Is She Eating?
08.07.02 Eat, Drink, and Be Wary: Recognizing Toxic Chemicals in Foods and Beverages
and Warfare
18.05.06 Chemical Warfare and the Rise of Antibiotic Resistance
Biochemistry
22.04.06 Exploration: The Search for the Next Habitable Planet
22.05.04 Will They Survive? Climate Change and its Impact on Biodiversity
18.05.06 Chemical Warfare and the Rise of Antibiotic Resistance
14.06.03 The Magic of Microbes May Save Our Lives!
13.06.05 HIV: From Horror to Hope
09.05.01 How Much Is Too Much? Teaching Measurement and Solution Concentration through Bioaccumulation and Levels of Toxicity
08.06.03 Healthy Choices Lead To Healthy Bodies! A Child's Guide to Good Nutrition and Exercise
Cooking
17.04.01 The Math and Science of Kitchen Ratios
17.04.02 The Chemistry of Baking Bread
17.04.05 Being Corny: Using Popcorn to Explore Thermodynamics
17.04.07 Matter Chatter: Exploring the effect heat has on states of matter using the five senses
17.04.11 Everyday Science of Cooking
Drugs
14.05.04 Protect My House: Developing a Family Over the Counter Drug Dosage Chart
13.06.05 HIV: From Horror to Hope
12.05.06 Toxic Effects of Mercury, Alcohol, and Cannabis on Human Cellular Function
12.05.07 Caution! Drug Diffusion Underway: Using Inquiry to Understand How Drugs and the Body Interact
Elemental
07.07.01 The Origin of the Elements
07.07.02 Beyond The Atom: Interpreting the Origin of the Elements
Energy (see Energy)
21.04.10 The Sun and Photosynthesis: From Photons to Astrobiology
20.04.01 The Chemistry of Energy
19.04.01 Driving in the Future: How Far Will that Battery Take You?
19.04.03 My Future, My Home: Building a Greener House for Tomorrow
19.04.04 Transfer of Energy through a Food Chain
16.04.04 Energetics of Biofuel - Investigating Alternative Energy Sources by Manufacturing Biodiesel
16.04.10 The Backwards and Forwards of Photosynthesis
13.05.03 A Chemistry Perspective: Gasoline or Biodiesel?
13.05.07 It Don't Come Easy: The Promises and Challenges of Biofuel Production
13.05.08 From Plants to Horsepower – an Introduction into the World of Oil
11.05.02 The Problems and Potential of Portable Power
11.05.09 I Got the Power! Misconceptions of Recycling Batteries
Environmental (see Ecology and Environmental Science)
22.05.03 The Chemistry of Ocean Acidification and its Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
22.05.04 Will They Survive? Climate Change and its Impact on Biodiversity
19.04.01 Driving in the Future: How Far Will that Battery Take You?
16.04.04 Energetics of Biofuel - Investigating Alternative Energy Sources by Manufacturing Biodiesel
11.05.01 Soap: Clean for the Environment or Just Us?
09.05.01 How Much Is Too Much? Teaching Measurement and Solution Concentration through Bioaccumulation and Levels of Toxicity
09.05.02 Reducing the Environmental Impact of the Green Industry with Green Chemistry
09.05.03 It's Not Waste: Teaching Recycling through Density, Phase Change and Solubility
09.05.04 Green Chemistry: The Future Is in Your Hands
09.05.05 Effects of Rates of Change and Accumulated Change in a Throw-Away Society
09.05.06 Using Green to Catalyze the Changing of The World
09.05.07 Experiencing Positive Relationships with Managing the Environment
09.05.10 The Science of Environmental Justice: Can Green Chemistry Change Our World?
08.07.05 Considering Case Studies of Chemical Contamination
08.07.08 Many Neighborhoods -- One Community: Learning Chemistry through the History of the Hunters Point Naval Station
08.07.10 Environmental Health Issues Meet Algebra
07.05.03 Environmentalists and Chemists Unite: A Chemistry Class for our Changing World
General
11.05.03 It's All about Plastic, Everywhere…
11.05.06 The Chemistry of Weather
Green
20.04.01 The Chemistry of Energy
20.04.04 The Life Cycle of Rare Earth Elements
11.05.08 Trash – Seriously!
09.05.02 Reducing the Environmental Impact of the Green Industry with Green Chemistry
09.05.04 Green Chemistry: The Future Is in Your Hands
09.05.06 Using Green to Catalyze the Changing of The World
09.05.07 Experiencing Positive Relationships with Managing the Environment
09.05.08 What's Your Green Bottom Line? The Truth About What We Leave Behind
Medicine (see Medicine)
18.05.10 Vaccines and the Outbreak of Nonsense
15.06.09 The Role of Hormones in Homeostasis
14.05.04 Protect My House: Developing a Family Over the Counter Drug Dosage Chart
14.06.07 Making Connections in Science: Viruses and the Immune System
13.06.05 HIV: From Horror to Hope
12.05.01 Diné Be'azee': Diné Traditional Medicine
12.05.02 Can You Pill It? Demystifying Painkillers
12.05.05 A, C, E Detective: Calculating Percentages
12.05.06 Toxic Effects of Mercury, Alcohol, and Cannabis on Human Cellular Function
09.05.06 Using Green to Catalyze the Changing of The World
Mercury
08.07.07 Mercury: An assessment of its life
Molecular
11.05.01 Soap: Clean for the Environment or Just Us?
11.05.06 The Chemistry of Weather
11.05.07 Materials for the Future
09.05.10 The Science of Environmental Justice: Can Green Chemistry Change Our World?
Plastics
20.04.05 A Plastic Struggle for Mother Earth
20.04.07 Confronting the Plastic Wasteland through Engineering
11.05.03 It's All about Plastic, Everywhere…
11.05.08 Trash – Seriously!
09.05.03 It's Not Waste: Teaching Recycling through Density, Phase Change and Solubility
09.05.08 What's Your Green Bottom Line? The Truth About What We Leave Behind
09.07.01 Flexible Enthusiasm: Consumption and Awareness of Plastics in Our Lives
08.07.06 Life Cycle Analysis of an Ordinary Plastic Water Bottle
08.07.11 Effects of Plastics on Top Predators' Health
Synthetics
11.05.10 Polytails and Urban Tumble Weaves: The Chemistry of Synthetic Hair Fibers
Water
11.05.05 Survival Chemistry: Using Everyday Things to Create Energy and Drinking Water
11.05.06 The Chemistry of Weather
09.05.09 Green Chemistry: Is Water, Water?
Chicago, Illinois
Culture
18.02.05 Activism and Cultural Identity Through Works of Art in Chicago Neighborhoods
14.04.11 Auditorium Building, Chicago: "The Temple of Peace."
11.04.07 Mind the Gap: Planting the Seeds of Cultural Awareness
Environment
23.04.02 Environmental Injustice in Chicago’s Southwest Side: Pollution, Past and Present
21.04.03 The Sun & Chicago: Its Weather, Climate, and Climate Change
21.05.02 Vertical Farming: The Future of Urban Agriculture
19.04.06 Assessing Chicago's Carbon Footprint One Step at a Time
Geography
14.03.02 Neighborhood as Palimpsest: An Examination of Chicago's Back of the Yards Neighborhood Through Urban Historical Geography
13.04.02 Paseo Boricua: Discovering Our Own Division
12.01.07 Present, Past, and Future: Using a Consumer Lens to Help Students Envision a Future
Health
15.06.06 Statistical Methods and Health in Chicago
History
20.01.01 Emmett Till: A Historical Inquiry
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
15.03.07 Telling Stories: Place, Space, and Memory in Chicago's Parks
14.03.02 Neighborhood as Palimpsest: An Examination of Chicago's Back of the Yards Neighborhood Through Urban Historical Geography
13.04.02 Paseo Boricua: Discovering Our Own Division
13.04.09 Vacant Lot: The Chicago Ickes Community Remembered
10.01.02 Historical Perspectives through Analysis of Art and Poetry
Immigration
15.01.05 Different Cultures in Chicago's Neighborhoods: Chinese and Mexican Communities
China
Art
17.01.09 Kindergarten Writing: Writing as a Form of Art
Chinese Americans
24.01.07 Extraction of Profits in the Gold Rush: Chinese Miners and California Ecology
17.02.08 American Born Readers: A Multicultural, Multimedia Attempt to Challenge Perspectives and Inspire Reading
08.05.07 Rice to Feed the World- Estimations on Rice Consumption and Production
Culture
15.01.04 Defining Culture through the Lens of Literature and Text in Kindergarten
06.01.08 I Search - Exploring Culture and Gender through Films Made in or about China
in Film
15.04.02 The Visual Art of Writing
06.01.08 I Search - Exploring Culture and Gender through Films Made in or about China
06.01.10 Raising Social Consciousness
Gender
06.01.08 I Search - Exploring Culture and Gender through Films Made in or about China
Chocolate
17.04.10 Confectionery Chemistry: Shifting the Contents of Chocolate
Cicero
The Orator
10.02.01 Hugo Chávez: ¿Persuasión Retórica o Demagógica?
10.02.07 Educating Tomorrow's Orators
10.02.08 To Persuade or Not to Persuade: The Makings of a Persuasive Speech
10.02.10 Paths into Excellence: Journal-Writing as Bedrock for Rhetoric
Civil Disobedience
14.01.11 Civil Disobedience in Words and Images
06.02.04 Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education
06.02.05 Obedience and Defiance: The Rule of Law in American History
Civil Rights (see Law; Social Justice)
American
and Disability
13.04.06 People with Disabilities: An Invisible Community
and Gender (see Gender)
21.02.05 American Intersections: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape our History and Lives
13.03.12 Glory Daze: Gloria Steinem's Biography Untangles the Mystique of Feminism
12.03.03 The Women's Movement in Presidential Rhetoric
12.04.10 Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s
and Race (see Race)
24.02.05 Through the Labor of Literacy
24.02.06 Freedom Dreaming: Critical Thought Through Imagination
21.01.08 John Lewis: Examining the Past to Inform Understandings of the Present
20.01.08 “Boxing” Asian American History
19.02.01 Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
19.02.06 Equipping Students with Tools for Positive Change
19.03.01 Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements
19.03.02 The Right to Vote: Empowerment and Civic Engagement in our Democracy
19.03.10 Chasing the Dream: The Civil Rights Movement and Desire for American Equality
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
18.01.04 The American Dream,
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
17.01.10 Minds in the Gutters and Bleeding on the Page: Literacy and Civil Rights History through the MARCH Comics Trilogy
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
12.04.03 For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws
12.04.08 True Citizenship: A Question of Race
12.04.10 Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s
11.04.08 The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text
10.02.09 Barack Obama's Rhetoric: The Trajectory of a Post-Racial America?
10.03.10 Barack Obama: A Nonfiction Approach to Reading in the "Reel" World through Documentary, Political Images, and Speech
09.02.03 Turning Hope into Reality
09.02.04 The Great African/African-American Intellectual Tradition for Liberation: Resistance Past, Present and Beyond
09.02.05 Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
09.02.09 Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
08.03.04 Our Spiritual Strivings: Understanding African American Identities in a Conflicted American Democracy
06.02.04 Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education
05.03.07 Racial Profiling and Terrorism
and Sexuality
19.03.06 Expanding Rights in American Democracy – Coalitions, Conflict, & Controversy
09.02.07 That’s My Right, too: Punishment for Being Different
Constitution
20.03.05 The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change
20.03.06 Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance
11.03.05 Reviving American Ideas: The U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists and the 28th Amendment
06.02.01 The Language of Justice
05.03.08 Postmodernism and the Flexibility of the Constitution
History (see History)
21.02.05 American Intersections: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape our History and Lives
20.01.06 Rhetorical Inquiry Through the Lives of Douglass and Truth
19.03.06 Expanding Rights in American Democracy – Coalitions, Conflict, & Controversy
19.03.10 Chasing the Dream: The Civil Rights Movement and Desire for American Equality
13.04.06 People with Disabilities: An Invisible Community
11.03.10 The Declaration of Independence: Still Inspiring Americans to Fight for Freedom!
09.02.03 Turning Hope into Reality
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
09.02.07 That’s My Right, too: Punishment for Being Different
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters
08.03.04 Our Spiritual Strivings: Understanding African American Identities in a Conflicted American Democracy
05.03.05 Citizen Voices in Peace and War: A Portal into Ap English Lit
05.03.13 Arthur Miller's History Lesson: The Crucible as a Link from the Past through McCarthyism to Present-Day Terrorism
19th Century
20.01.05 In Their Own Words? - Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
19.03.02 The Right to Vote: Empowerment and Civic Engagement in our Democracy
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
12.04.03 For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
09.02.08 Setbacks to Suffrage: Inquiry into the Process
05.01.08 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
05.03.09 Free, but Not Free: Civil Liberties in a Time of War
05.03.10 Precedents for the USA PATRIOT Act: Military Tribunals
20th Century
20.01.01 Emmett Till: A Historical Inquiry
20.03.05 The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change
17.01.10 Minds in the Gutters and Bleeding on the Page: Literacy and Civil Rights History through the MARCH Comics Trilogy
13.03.12 Glory Daze: Gloria Steinem's Biography Untangles the Mystique of Feminism
13.04.02 Paseo Boricua: Discovering Our Own Division
12.01.01 War on the Home Front: Politics and the Zoot Suit
12.04.08 True Citizenship: A Question of Race
12.04.10 Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
06.02.01 The Language of Justice
06.02.04 Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education
05.02.05 Conflict and Resolution through Sports: A Question of Civil Rights: The 1968 Olympics and Tlatelolco
05.03.10 Precedents for the USA PATRIOT Act: Military Tribunals
21st Century
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
in Literature (see Literature)
16.02.08 Reading One Another: Fostering Passion and Identity Growth through African-American Literature
12.04.11 The Heart's Migration: Finding, Making, Coming Home
07.01.06 The Color Purple's Three-Fold Adaptation: Examining Protagonists and Media through a Self-Reflective, Critical Lens
in Music (see Music)
09.02.04 The Great African/African-American Intellectual Tradition for Liberation: Resistance Past, Present and Beyond
School Desegregation
21.03.02 The New Brown v. Board of Education in Today’s School Segregation
21.03.03 Racial Inequities in Public School Today: Reflecting on Failures of Brown V Board
20.03.03 Codes of Conduct: Racist Housing and Education Policies that Impact Urban Students
19.03.09 The Different Shades of the Yellow Bus
15.01.07 Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
15.03.06 Looking at Desegregation through Local Narratives: A Case Study at Tulsa Central High School
15.03.09 The History and Analysis of Public Art: Using Delaware’s Desegregation History as a Ground to Learn, Interpret, and Create
13.03.07 A picture is worth a thousand words: Rediscovering biography
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
06.02.04 Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education
Segregation
21.03.03 Racial Inequities in Public School Today: Reflecting on Failures of Brown V Board
21.03.06 Still Separate and Unequal? A Look at School Equality in the American Democracy
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
12.04.05 From Three Rivers to Arlington: Mexican American Civil Rights to 1954
Supreme Court (see Supreme Court)
11.03.08 An Opportunity for All? Andrew Jackson and the American Indian
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
06.02.03 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
06.02.04 Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education
and Science (see Science)
05.03.04 Science, Safety, and Civil Liberties
and Terrorism
05.03.07 Racial Profiling and Terrorism
and War (see War)
12.01.01 War on the Home Front: Politics and the Zoot Suit
05.03.01 The Courage to Be An Enemy of the People
05.03.02 The Critical Balance Threatened: Personal Liberties and National Security in Time of War
05.03.12 Dilemma of a Democracy: Liberty and Security
Philosophy (see Philosophy)
13.01.02 Our Visible Social Contract
05.03.03 Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: Using Enlightenment Philosophy to Teach Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Class
and Economics (see Economics)
22.02.02 Public Diplomacy and Consumerism During the Early Cold War
20.03.08 When downward Mobility Strikes
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
15.03.05 A Public History of Public Housing: Richmond, Virginia
12.01.04 Do We Really Need What We Want?: Consumerism and Second Graders
08.03.12 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
and Education
21.03.04 Can They Escape from Hot Cheetos & Takis? Black Appetite, White Food: Examining Issues of Race, Democracy, and Place
21.03.06 Still Separate and Unequal? A Look at School Equality in the American Democracy
and Gender (see Gender)
15.04.03 Film, Freud and Fitzgerald: A Psychoanalytical Critique of The Great Gatsby and Jazz Age Values
and Health (see Health)
20.03.07 Health and Public Policy
17.06.03 Economics and Community Health - The Wealth-Health Paradigm
17.06.06 HeLa Cells, Cervical Cancer, and the HPV Vaccine
and Incarceration
19.02.01 Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
18.01.10 Juvenile Justice in California: A Rhetorical Approach
and Law (see Law)
19.02.08 Learning the System to Overcome the System: Juvenile Justice for High School Students
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
and Race (see Race)
22.02.04 Creating Filipino Nationality: Race and Hierarchy in the Context of Empire (1886-1916)
21.02.05 American Intersections: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape our History and Lives
18.01.02 A Church Hill: The Birth, Death, Revival But What About the Children?
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
15.03.05 A Public History of Public Housing: Richmond, Virginia
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
12.04.09 The Resiliency of the Black Family
in Art (see Art)
14.01.06 Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
History (see History)
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
in Literature (see Literature)
15.04.03 Film, Freud and Fitzgerald: A Psychoanalytical Critique of The Great Gatsby and Jazz Age Values
13.03.09 Other's Mistakes Don't Have to be Your Own
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
Social Structure
20.03.08 When downward Mobility Strikes
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
18.01.04 The American Dream,
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
06.04.10 Symbols of Hierarchy: Things of Bling in the Pre-Columbian Americas
Climate Change (see Ecology and Environmental Science; Energy; Global Warming; Sustainability)
21.04.03 The Sun & Chicago: Its Weather, Climate, and Climate Change
21.04.04 Using Case Studies to Understand the Sun’s Influence on Earth’s Climate System in 3rd Grade
Education
24.01.04 The Eye of the Beholder: Climate Change Awareness
24.01.05 Manufacturer's Mist: How the Anthropocene is Filled with Dead Men's Souls
20.04.10 Engineers Wanted: Climate Change Experience Necessary!
19.04.06 Assessing Chicago's Carbon Footprint One Step at a Time
19.04.07 Islands and Their Energy Needs
16.04.07 Náhasdzáán Nílchi Binaadohígíí - Carbon Dioxide
09.07.08 Teaching Ecology Principles through the Study of an Ecosystem
09.07.11 Learning Ecology through Endangered Species
06.05.03 Educating the Community about Global Warming and Sea Level Rise through Earth Day
06.05.05 Teaching Science and Global Warming
06.05.06 A Planet Worth a Thousand Words: An English Teacher's Guide to Global Warming
Impact on
Environment
22.05.01 New Castle and Climate Change – Causes, Evidence, Impacts, and Potential Solutions
22.05.02 Energy Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones: The impacts of climate change
22.05.04 Will They Survive? Climate Change and its Impact on Biodiversity
22.05.05 Graphing the Urban Health Impacts of Rising Temperature, Air Quality and Increased Pollen
22.05.06 "To 'iina 'ate: Water is Life," Navajo Farming During a Drought
22.05.07 Climate Change Impact on Agriculture in California
20.04.03 Evaluating and Mitigating Stormwater Runoff Contamination
20.04.06 The Engineering of Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management Practices
20.05.01 One Clover and A Bee: The Impacts of Bee Sustainability on Biodiversity in Allegheny County
20.05.02 Strands of One Braided Cord: How Humans Are Impacting Biodiversity Through the Spread of Disease
20.05.03 Biodiversity in Pocahontas State Park: Being Caretakers with Wildlife Corridors
20.05.06 Friend or Foe: Human Impact on the Earth’s Ecosystems
20.05.07 Ecological Effects of Strip Mining Coal on the Black Mesa Mine
20.05.08 Viral Viruses: Land-Use Changes and Emerging Infectious Diseases
20.05.09 Saving Little Brown Bats: A Case Study of White-Nose Syndrome for Primary Grades
19.04.01 Driving in the Future: How Far Will that Battery Take You?
19.04.06 Assessing Chicago's Carbon Footprint One Step at a Time
06.05.01 Global Warming: Is Our Local Environment Ready for the Change?
06.05.03 Educating the Community about Global Warming and Sea Level Rise through Earth Day
06.05.04 Global Warming: A Physical Explanation and Implications on Climate
06.05.05 Teaching Science and Global Warming
Humans
23.04.01 We are Not in this Together: The Unequal Impacts of Climate Change
23.04.02 Environmental Justice and Land Issues of Indigenous People
23.04.02 Environmental Injustice in Chicago’s Southwest Side: Pollution, Past and Present
23.04.04 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
23.04.06 Next Generation Learners to Leaders: Intro to Environmental Justice
23.04.07 Environmental Injustice- A Motive for Social Change in the Americas
22.05.01 New Castle and Climate Change – Causes, Evidence, Impacts, and Potential Solutions
22.05.05 Graphing the Urban Health Impacts of Rising Temperature, Air Quality and Increased Pollen
20.04.02 Building a Heat-Resilient Community in Richmond, Virginia
20.05.02 Strands of One Braided Cord: How Humans Are Impacting Biodiversity Through the Spread of Disease
20.05.06 Friend or Foe: Human Impact on the Earth’s Ecosystems
20.05.07 Ecological Effects of Strip Mining Coal on the Black Mesa Mine
20.05.08 Viral Viruses: Land-Use Changes and Emerging Infectious Diseases
06.05.02 The Consequences of Global Warming on Human Health
Oceans and Water
23.04.04 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
22.05.02 Energy Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones: The impacts of climate change
22.05.03 The Chemistry of Ocean Acidification and its Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
22.05.06 "To 'iina 'ate: Water is Life," Navajo Farming During a Drought
20.04.03 Evaluating and Mitigating Stormwater Runoff Contamination
20.04.06 The Engineering of Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management Practices
20.05.10 Marine Biotoxins: Invisible, Odorless, and Lethal
09.07.08 Teaching Ecology Principles through the Study of an Ecosystem
06.05.03 Educating the Community about Global Warming and Sea Level Rise through Earth Day
Mathematics and
09.07.05 Math and Consequences: Environmental Context in Math Instruction
Physics of
06.05.04 Global Warming: A Physical Explanation and Implications on Climate
Renewable Energy
19.04.01 Driving in the Future: How Far Will that Battery Take You?
19.04.05 Prototyping a Wind Turbine and Measuring Performance
19.04.07 Islands and Their Energy Needs
19.04.10 Harnessing the Wind Like William Kamkwamba: Building Model Windmills in a 4th Grade STEM Lab
13.05.03 A Chemistry Perspective: Gasoline or Biodiesel?
13.05.05 Mathematics of Energy Efficiency: Use Less, Save More
13.05.06 Math Equations of Energy
09.07.02 Energy Quest: Exploring Sun, Wind, and Water
07.05.03 Environmentalists and Chemists Unite: A Chemistry Class for our Changing World
07.05.06 The Power of the Sun
06.05.07 The Case for Biodiesel with Selected Experiments
Waste
23.04.04 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
23.04.06 Next Generation Learners to Leaders: Intro to Environmental Justice
20.04.07 Confronting the Plastic Wasteland through Engineering
11.05.08 Trash – Seriously!
09.07.10 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Oh My!
Colonialism
07.03.02 Mapping Change: How Colonialism Changed a Man, His Community, and His Culture
America
23.01.01 Curator as Detective: Looking for Missing Stories in Museums
23.01.05 Colours of Humanity: Artistic representations of the "Other"
23.01.06 Clothing and Identity in Early America: Black Women and AmerIndian Men
Philippines
22.02.06 Immigration narratives: Hidden Links between U.S. empire and Filipino immigration to the U.S.
Postcolonialism
17.02.11 Whose America? Americans in the Americas and Inequality
Settler Colonialism
23.04.02 Environmental Justice and Land Issues of Indigenous People
14.01.03 Whose Destiny? Viewing America's Westward Expansion through Artful Eyes
France
23.01.07 La Francophonie Diverse: French Adjective Agreement Through Art
Settler Colonialism
23.01.08 Racialization: Past and Present
Comic Books (see Literature; Visual Arts)
09.01.05 SHAZAM! Exploring Superhero Comics to Study Character Origin and Creative Writing
in Film
18.03.03 From Prince to King: Black Panther in Text and Film
Science Fiction
18.05.08 Exploring CRISPR Gene Drives for Schizophrenia and Superpowers
The Walking Dead
18.03.08 Understanding the Apocalyptic Society: The Walking Dead from Comics to Television
Criminal Justice (see Forensic Science; Law)
and Race (see Race)
21.02.07 American Policing Disparities: Today’s African-American Males Living in the Shadows of their Male Ancestors
19.02.04 Understanding and Challenging the Overcriminalization of Youth of Color
19.02.08 Learning the System to Overcome the System: Juvenile Justice for High School Students
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
Forensics
16.06.01 Silent Witnesses: Hexapod Helpers in Crime Scene Investigation
13.06.07 DNA in Forensic Science: genetic engineering applications in forensics
History
19.02.05 Who Watches the Watchmen? How Police Militarization Has Subverted the Constitution
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
13.04.08 Invisible Richmond: The History Behind the Urban Landscape
Incarceration
19.02.01 Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
19.02.07 A History of Peacemaking and Incarceration with the Dine People
19.02.08 Learning the System to Overcome the System: Juvenile Justice for High School Students
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
18.01.10 Juvenile Justice in California: A Rhetorical Approach
Juvenile
19.02.04 Understanding and Challenging the Overcriminalization of Youth of Color
19.02.08 Learning the System to Overcome the System: Juvenile Justice for High School Students
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
18.01.10 Juvenile Justice in California: A Rhetorical Approach
Policing
21.02.07 American Policing Disparities: Today’s African-American Males Living in the Shadows of their Male Ancestors
19.02.03 Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
19.02.05 Who Watches the Watchmen? How Police Militarization Has Subverted the Constitution
19.02.07 A History of Peacemaking and Incarceration with the Dine People
07.02.09 Police Investigative Challenges: To Snitch or Not to Snitch, That is the Unanswered Question
Reform
19.02.02 On Criminal Justice Reform: Studying Philadelphia’s New, Reform-Minded District Attorney through a Historical Context
19.02.03 Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
19.02.04 Understanding and Challenging the Overcriminalization of Youth of Color
19.02.05 Who Watches the Watchmen? How Police Militarization Has Subverted the Constitution
19.02.06 Equipping Students with Tools for Positive Change
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
Terrorism
08.03.11 Democracy, Terrorism and the American Criminal Justice System
Cultural Studies
16.01.01 Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
16.03.08 Unraveling the Dream World Stereotype of the Arab People
16.03.09 Journey to the Sun: Reclaiming Imagination and Self-Esteem through Culture and History
15.01.04 Defining Culture through the Lens of Literature and Text in Kindergarten
15.01.05 Different Cultures in Chicago's Neighborhoods: Chinese and Mexican Communities