Index of all Curriculum Units, 2005-2024

section "P"

Selecting a Unit number will take you to the Guide Entry for that Unit.

Painting (see Art; Art History)

Pedagogy

and Art
20.02.01 Mexican-American Labor in California through Art Literacy
20.02.02 Who is in Charge Here?: Examining (in)visibility and Cultural Context of Jim Crow Era Monuments in Elementary Art Education
20.02.03 Understanding Race and Racism Through Faith’s Ringgold’s Work
20.02.04 Centering Race in Literary Studies in the Kindergarten Classroom
17.02.03 Curating an Identity: Exploration and Expression in the Elementary Art Room
14.01.01 Dramatizing Art: Tableaux Vivants
14.01.02 American Genre Painting: Visual Representations of Slavery and Emancipation, 1850-1870
14.01.04 Anasazi Images on Navajo Land
14.01.05 Experiencing the Revolutionary War Era through Visual Images
14.04.03 Articulations: Crafting Credible Discourse on Art, Aesthetics, and Design
13.03.08 Understanding Character Development Through the Use of Autobiography
07.04.03 Context Clues: The Appropriation of Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe
06.04.03 Native American Art Traditions in the Middle School Arts Curriculum

and Learning Science
21.05.09 Harnessing the Power of Failure as a Catalyst for Innovation
09.06.04 Memory Boot Camp
09.06.05 An Investigation into Learning Using the Regions of the Brain
09.06.06 This Is Your Brain…This is Your Brain on Fire…Any Questions?

and Memory (see Memory)
09.06.04 Memory Boot Camp

Narrative
19.01.07 You Ain’t Gotta Write Like You Speak: Talking White, While Livin’ Brown
15.04.02 The Visual Art of Writing
14.01.02 American Genre Painting: Visual Representations of Slavery and Emancipation, 1850-1870
09.01.08 Keeping the Tradition of African Storytelling Alive
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters
08.02.06 In Their Shoes: Finding Voice through Personal Narrative
08.02.07 Getting Into Character: Finding Voice in Realistic Fiction
07.03.01 The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Freedom: Using Slave Narratives and Negro Spirituals as Maps

Assessment
06.03.12 Using Traditional Literature to Address Standards

Autobiography
19.01.05 Becoming Butterflies: A Transformative Writing Unit
19.01.11 Right Our World as Writers Who Are Readers: Acts of Resistance in Personal Memoirs and Public Arguments
15.01.08 Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders
13.03.01 The Story of Me
13.03.02 Character Traits in Biography
13.03.03 Memoir: Magical Moments in Young Children's Lives
13.03.04 From Narratives to Biography: Who will listen to their stories?
12.02.07 Reading, Writing, and Recidivism: Healing to Learn through Memoir and Vignette for Adjudicated and/or Traumatized Youth
12.03.05 Could YOU be President?: Explaining and Exploring Presidential Possibility through Autobiography
09.02.09 Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
07.03.03 Maps and Mapmaking for the Artist

Biography
20.01.01 Emmett Till: A Historical Inquiry
20.01.02 American History Through American Lives Celebrating Our Family History Through Immigration Stories
20.01.03 “Faces in the Frame: More than a Narrative”-The Lives that Frame the True History of the United States through Primary Sources
20.01.06 Rhetorical Inquiry Through the Lives of Douglass and Truth
20.01.08 “Boxing” Asian American History
15.01.08 Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders

Board Games
21.04.02 Bringing the Solar System into Our Classroom
07.02.04 D. I. E.

Character
12.02.01 Non-Violent Fictional Characters as a Means to Character-Building: Ferdinand the Flower-Friendly Bull and Chrysanthemum the Brave Blooming Mouse
11.01.03 You'll Stumble in My Footsteps: Character Traits, Choices, and Outcomes in Literature
11.01.07 Taking Pride in Our Character

Communication
21.05.09 Harnessing the Power of Failure as a Catalyst for Innovation
10.02.02 Tune into the Tone: What Should We Hear Here?
10.03.02 I Have a Story to Tell: Learning through Peer Biographical Inquiry
08.06.11 Developing Student Leaders through Nutritional Empowerment

Debate
15.01.02 Helping Students
12.03.04 What the Founders could not have Known
12.03.07 Behind the Scenes of the Constitutional Convention

Drama (see Drama)
16.02.06 Creating Connections to Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire
15.02.07 Removing the Mask: An Untamed Look at Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
09.03.03 King Lear, Part II--It's All About the Play
07.03.01 The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Freedom: Using Slave Narratives and Negro Spirituals as Maps

Film (see Film)
22.01.03 Social Emotional Learning through Film
11.01.01 The Other Side: Experiencing Cultures through the Eyes of My Students
09.01.01 Using Stories and Film in the English Language Learner Classroom to Teach Immigration History
07.01.08 Spanish Cultures through Film and Literature

History (see History)
20.01.05 In Their Own Words? - Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
20.01.06 Rhetorical Inquiry Through the Lives of Douglass and Truth
20.01.08 “Boxing” Asian American History
15.01.01 Wandering Through the Bad Times: Children Making Their Way Through the Great Depression
15.01.07 Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
15.03.04 French History in Your City: San Jose, California - the Pellier Brothers
15.03.08 Ripple Effect: How Major Events Effect Everyone
14.01.05 Experiencing the Revolutionary War Era through Visual Images
14.01.06 Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
13.02.04 Teaching Post-Civil War History in Document-Based Fiction
13.03.05 Inspire, Reach, and Teach Through Biography
13.04.08 Invisible Richmond: The History Behind the Urban Landscape
12.03.06 The First Twenty Years: Whiskey, Aliens… and Shopping!
12.03.07 Behind the Scenes of the Constitutional Convention
12.04.10 Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s
11.03.06 American Musicals, American Freedom
11.04.04 The Scene of the Crime, Mexico City: Performing History in the Language Classroom
07.03.06 The Rhetoric of Maps and the Westward Expansion of the United States
07.03.09 Mapping the Great Migration 1916-1930: African American Movement from the South to the North

Oral History
20.01.05 In Their Own Words? - Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
15.03.05 A Public History of Public Housing: Richmond, Virginia
11.04.05 Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
10.03.04 Voices of Emery Secondary: An Oral History Project

Identity (see Identity)
20.01.03 “Faces in the Frame: More than a Narrative”-The Lives that Frame the True History of the United States through Primary Sources
19.03.04 Grade Level Gavel Student Court: Justice for All
18.02.03 The Third Space: Ekphrasis, Confessional Poetry, and Mental Health
18.02.05 Activism and Cultural Identity Through Works of Art in Chicago Neighborhoods
17.02.02 Identity of Past and Present Diné
17.02.03 Curating an Identity: Exploration and Expression in the Elementary Art Room
17.02.04 Finding Me, Knowing You: Exploring and Expressing Identity through Language Arts
17.02.06 Identity in Transition: Narrative Repair for Changing Times
17.02.09 Growing Roots, Stretching Wings: An Exploration of Identity and Voice for English Learners
16.01.01 Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
16.02.09 Who Am I?: Culturally Relevant Text and American Identity
16.03.02 Afirmando Nuestra Identidad (Affirming Our Identity): Exploring Dream Worlds and Storytelling through Alebrijes
12.03.10 Naataanii'
11.04.03 The Intangible Heritage of Diné
11.04.10 New Orleans: Human Gifts, Human Lessons
09.01.09 The Global Bildungsroman: A Film Study of Individual Identity and Integration into Society
09.02.09 Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
09.03.08 African Americans and Shakespeare: Partners in Search of Humanity
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
08.02.02 The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice
08.02.06 In Their Shoes: Finding Voice through Personal Narrative
08.03.04 Our Spiritual Strivings: Understanding African American Identities in a Conflicted American Democracy
07.02.07 Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction
07.04.01 Boricua, Morena: Latin-Caribbean American and African American Cultural Connections En ciudad de Filadelfia
07.04.04 I Know You Are, but What Am I? A Latino Literature Unit
07.04.06 La voz y la vida: Literacy and Identity in Young Latino Immigrant Students

Improvisation
13.02.10 Living Texts: Analyzing S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders by Thinking, Reading, Acting, and Thinking Again

Interdisciplinary
21.03.02 The New Brown v. Board of Education in Today’s School Segregation
21.04.01 Our Sun: The Myths, The Facts, and Superman
21.04.07 Our Sun: Through Scientific, Cultural, and Artistic Lenses
21.05.04 Math by Design; Creating Innovators in a Post-Pandemic Classroom
20.02.01 Mexican-American Labor in California through Art Literacy
20.02.02 Who is in Charge Here?: Examining (in)visibility and Cultural Context of Jim Crow Era Monuments in Elementary Art Education
20.02.04 Centering Race in Literary Studies in the Kindergarten Classroom
20.02.05 Race and Racial Formation in Latin America: Racism Conscious Instruction in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom
20.02.09 No Lye, Nappy or Straight, People Still Gon’ Hate: Getting to the Root of the Issue; Colorblindness and Neutrality within Hairstyles and Hair Types
20.03.07 Health and Public Policy
20.03.08 When downward Mobility Strikes
20.05.03 Biodiversity in Pocahontas State Park: Being Caretakers with Wildlife Corridors
19.04.07 Islands and Their Energy Needs
19.05.02 SmArt Math: Paper Polyominoes and Ceramic Tetradic Cuboids
19.05.03 Native American Geometric Community
18.02.04 Creatively Communicating through Visual and Verbal Art- Poetry and Murals
18.03.01 The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills
18.05.08 Exploring CRISPR Gene Drives for Schizophrenia and Superpowers
18.05.09 Endangered Species, De-Extinction and MANipulation
17.04.05 Being Corny: Using Popcorn to Explore Thermodynamics
17.05.01 Helping Struggling Readers Build Math Understanding through Word Problems
17.05.02 Solving Problems Multiple Ways: Using Arithmetic and Literature - Hooray!
17.05.04 Math World Problems and the Diné Hooghan
16.02.07 Using Art-Based Research to Explore Metaphors in Romeo and Juliet with English Language Learners
16.03.02 Afirmando Nuestra Identidad (Affirming Our Identity): Exploring Dream Worlds and Storytelling through Alebrijes
16.04.07 Náhasdzáán Nílchi Binaadohígíí - Carbon Dioxide
16.05.08 Diyogi (Navajo Rug) and the Number Line
15.01.01 Wandering Through the Bad Times: Children Making Their Way Through the Great Depression
15.01.09 Revisiting Race and Riot: Exploring Tulsa’s Conflicts in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Image
15.03.03 My City Need' Something
15.04.01 Look Behind You! Mastering the Art of Suspense with Poe and Hitchcock
15.04.02 The Visual Art of Writing
15.06.01 Diabetes and Navajo Nation
15.06.05 Recombinant DNA Technology and Global Health
15.06.08 Every Breath You Take - Air Pollution’s Effects on Respiratory Health
14.01.02 American Genre Painting: Visual Representations of Slavery and Emancipation, 1850-1870
14.01.03 Whose Destiny? Viewing America's Westward Expansion through Artful Eyes
14.01.05 Experiencing the Revolutionary War Era through Visual Images
14.01.06 Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
14.01.11 Civil Disobedience in Words and Images
14.02.09 Pictures, Poems, and Planets
14.02.11 Visual Poetry
14.04.07 Energizing the Debate: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Sources of Energy
14.06.05 Microbes as a Driving Force of Change
13.02.03 Seasonal Dine/Navajo Poetry: Interpreting the Seasons through Dine/Navajo Culture
13.04.03 Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure
13.04.10 Discovering the Invisible Bay Street: Uncovering Emeryville's History and Understanding Our Own
13.05.01 Energy Usage and Conservation: My Impact on the World
13.05.05 Mathematics of Energy Efficiency: Use Less, Save More
12.02.04 Hungry for Knowledge: Using The Hunger Games to teach American Principles of Citizenship
12.04.08 True Citizenship: A Question of Race
12.05.05 A, C, E Detective: Calculating Percentages
12.05.06 Toxic Effects of Mercury, Alcohol, and Cannabis on Human Cellular Function
12.06.01 Asking Questions about Learning Disabilities: A Gateway to Self-Determination
12.07.05 Math Facts of Natural Gas & Pollution
11.01.03 You'll Stumble in My Footsteps: Character Traits, Choices, and Outcomes in Literature
11.01.05 Approaching Portraiture: The Character on the Page and on the Canvas
11.03.02 American Ideas in Three Artist Collectives
11.03.06 American Musicals, American Freedom
11.03.09 The Hip-Hopcracy of America
11.04.02 Strange Fruit: An Exploration of Imagery and Socio-politics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
11.04.04 The Scene of the Crime, Mexico City: Performing History in the Language Classroom
11.04.06 La Francophonie, beyond the Hexagon
11.04.08 The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text
11.04.09 The Responsibility Is Ours: Preserving Intangible Heritage
11.04.12 Feathers and Beads: Exploring Heritage through the Mardi Gras Indians
11.05.06 The Chemistry of Weather
11.07.04 Building a Heart: The Function and Mechanics
11.07.05 There is Math in Your Heart
10.01.02 Historical Perspectives through Analysis of Art and Poetry
10.01.06 Finding the Story through Intermediality: PoetryComics, Animated Poetry and Tableu Vivant
10.03.10 Barack Obama: A Nonfiction Approach to Reading in the "Reel" World through Documentary, Political Images, and Speech
10.04.02 Repeat After Me!
10.04.03 Putting the Pieces Together
10.04.07 Patterns, a Different Point of View
10.04.09 Math and Design
10.06.02 The Impact of Disease on the Civil War
10.06.06 Teaching Principles of Evolutionary Medicine through a Historical Lens
09.01.01 Using Stories and Film in the English Language Learner Classroom to Teach Immigration History
09.02.04 The Great African/African-American Intellectual Tradition for Liberation: Resistance Past, Present and Beyond
09.05.05 Effects of Rates of Change and Accumulated Change in a Throw-Away Society
09.05.09 Green Chemistry: Is Water, Water?
09.06.03 Mathematics and the Brain: Easy as 1-2-3 Simple Like A-B-C
09.07.05 Math and Consequences: Environmental Context in Math Instruction
08.01.06 Shakespeare's World: an Integrated Unit for Third Grade
08.04.02 Building Bridges in Earthquake Country: From the Past to the Present
08.04.03 Learning by Mistakes-Bridge Failures
08.04.05 The Art, Science, and Mathematics of Bridges: An Integrated Unit for Middle School
08.04.09 Bridges: Inspired by Nature
08.05.04 Crunching Numbers for Lunch
08.05.05 Ballpark Figures: Quantitative Inquiries of Baseball and Beyond!
08.05.06 The Power of Estimation
08.05.07 Rice to Feed the World- Estimations on Rice Consumption and Production
08.05.08 Estimation in Ecology - the Horseshoe Crab Census
08.06.07 Feeding our Bodies, Fueling our Minds
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
07.02.03 Using Detective Fiction to Reinforce Problem Solving Strategies and the Scientific Method
07.05.07 Solar Energy -- Architectural Alternatives for Home Building
07.06.04 Word Problems in Picture Books: Literature as a Source of Math Word Problems
07.07.05 Traveling the Solar System through Literature
06.04.02 Things, Foods, and How We Know
06.05.06 A Planet Worth a Thousand Words: An English Teacher's Guide to Global Warming

Interpretation
17.01.01 Image as Text: A Bridge to Critical Literary Analysis
13.02.01 Moving Beyond "Huh?": Ambiguity in Heart of Darkness
13.02.02 Pathways to Making Meaning: Inroads to Interpretation of The Nature of Evil in Heart of Darkness
13.02.03 Seasonal Dine/Navajo Poetry: Interpreting the Seasons through Dine/Navajo Culture
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape
13.02.07 Interpreting the Literal for the Revelational
13.02.08 Teaching Tone, Mood and Purpose through the Interpretation of Activist Poetry

Interviews
17.02.02 Identity of Past and Present Diné
13.03.10 The Significance of My Great-Grandparent
13.04.07 Appetizers, Main Courses, and Desserts: A Menu of Sociological Research Methods
12.02.02 The Storytelling Cycle: Navigating Our Way through the Listening and Sharing of Stories
12.04.07 Diverse Journeys - Americans All!
12.04.10 Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s
11.04.05 Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
10.03.03 Discovering the Entrepreneur
10.03.04 Voices of Emery Secondary: An Oral History Project
10.03.11 Contando Vidas/Telling Life Stories: The Biographies of Influential Hispanics in Our Community

Language Instruction (see Language Instruction)

Leadership (see Leadership)
10.02.06 Creating Authentic Student Leadership through Rhetoric
09.03.06 A Tide in the Affairs of Men: Looking at Leadership in Shakespeare's Roman Plays
08.06.11 Developing Student Leaders through Nutritional Empowerment

Literacy (see Reading)
18.03.01 The Miracle Worker: Bridging Drama and Film Study to Build Critical Literacy Skills
16.02.03 Connecting it All: How Connecting Students to a Text Increases Motivation to Read
16.03.01 Magical Multi-Culti Yellow Brick Road Realism: Using Imagination to Find Reality
14.02.05 The ABCs of Elementary Reading and Writing Poetry with Animals
13.02.11 Giant Reading with The BFG
11.01.04 Making Friends with Characters: Exploring Friendship through Literature
10.03.01 American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy
10.03.05 Approaching Literacy: The Lives of Walt Disney, Helen Keller, and Dr. Seuss
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character
09.01.04 Cinderella: A Cross-cultural Story
09.04.01 Embracing the Frumious Bandersnatch: Sound, Rhyme, and Nonsense in Poetry for Young Children
09.04.02 Change Moans and Groans to a Love of Tone: Teaching Students to Listen to Text
09.04.04 Discovering Voice
06.03.03 Reading as an Act of Creating Value: Character Education in a Public Montessori School
06.03.11 Children's Literature for Students with Reading Challenges Using Pictures Books and Film

Literary Devices
21.03.11 Orwell’s Dystopian Inequality: Fact or Fiction?
16.02.01 Reading for Craft through an Author Study
16.02.07 Using Art-Based Research to Explore Metaphors in Romeo and Juliet with English Language Learners
15.02.02 Tragedies and Plots Shaped by Characters of Shakespeare and Navajo Oral Myths
14.02.05 The ABCs of Elementary Reading and Writing Poetry with Animals
14.04.05 From Insurgent Listener to Word Warrior: Self-advocating through Spoken Word
13.02.09 Epigraph-allacy: Using Epigraphs to Elicit Student Interpretations
13.02.10 Living Texts: Analyzing S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders by Thinking, Reading, Acting, and Thinking Again
12.02.02 The Storytelling Cycle: Navigating Our Way through the Listening and Sharing of Stories
12.02.03 Fact or Fiction: Analyzing why the Author includes Truth in Fiction and the Influence and Effect on the Audience
12.02.10 Stylistic Voice and Questions of Speaking for the Voiceless in The Poisonwood Bible
11.02.09 The Concealed Story

Mathematics (see Mathematics)

Algebra
17.05.05 Mathematics as a Language of Symbols
17.05.07 Introduction of the Variable by Forming and Interpreting Expressions
16.05.06 The Starting Line-Up: Analyzing the Number Line to Conceptualize Foundational Skills for Algebra
16.05.07 Rational Number Placement on the Number Line
14.05.07 The FAL of Linear Relationships: Simple and Complex Word Problem Scenarios with Two Variables
13.05.05 Mathematics of Energy Efficiency: Use Less, Save More
11.06.04 Algebra Really Is Just Arithmetic
11.06.08 A Fraction of What We Know
11.06.09 What an Expression Expresses
11.06.10 Strong Foundations = Success In Equations
11.06.11 Boosting Number Sense in High School Students
10.04.07 Patterns, a Different Point of View
08.04.05 The Art, Science, and Mathematics of Bridges: An Integrated Unit for Middle School
08.04.08 The Use of Bridge Design in Teaching Mechanics
08.07.10 Environmental Health Issues Meet Algebra
07.06.07 Linear Expressions and Evaluations
07.06.10 Assisting the Transition from English to Mathematical Language
07.06.11 Applying System of Equations to Real-World Scenarios: A Practical Curriculum

and Art
19.05.02 SmArt Math: Paper Polyominoes and Ceramic Tetradic Cuboids

and Climate Change
09.07.05 Math and Consequences: Environmental Context in Math Instruction

Big Numbers
18.04.01 Answering Big Questions by Finally Understanding Big Numbers
18.04.07 Estimating Big Numbers: Do You Really Understand Them?

Calculus
17.05.05 Mathematics as a Language of Symbols
14.05.08 Using Math Practice Standards to Understand Functions and Their Inverses
11.06.11 Boosting Number Sense in High School Students
09.05.05 Effects of Rates of Change and Accumulated Change in a Throw-Away Society

Common Core
17.05.03 Understanding Problems: Using Bar Models with Common Core Taxonomies
15.05.03 Real World Problem Solving in Second Grade Mathematics
15.05.09 Equations in the Common Core: Algebraic Reasoning and Problem Solving

Culturally Responsive
18.04.08 Decimal Place Value: A Culturally Responsive Approach

Estimation
15.05.11 Solving Big Problems: Using Estimation to Develop Scientific Number Sense
08.05.02 Take Your Best Guess: Exploring 1, 10 and 100
08.05.05 Ballpark Figures: Quantitative Inquiries of Baseball and Beyond!
08.05.06 The Power of Estimation
08.05.07 Rice to Feed the World- Estimations on Rice Consumption and Production
08.05.08 Estimation in Ecology - the Horseshoe Crab Census
08.05.09 Estimation: What's the Big Deal?

Fractions
23.03.01 Teaching Elementary Fractions Using Fractions Strips
23.03.02 Using a Length Model of Fractions to Compare Fractions
23.03.03 Money, Money, Money: Decimal Fractions in $ and ¢
23.03.05 Numerical Development: from whole numbers to fractions
16.05.03 Moving from Rods to Number Lines to Understand Fractions
15.05.07 Fractions: Building a Foundation through Conceptual Understanding and Problem Solving
14.05.02 Fractions Aren't So Scary! Using the Unit Fraction to Ease the Fear
14.05.03 Defending a Fractions Position
14.05.05 Developing Mathematical Minds – Learning Fractions Through Career and Technical
11.06.06 Fractions: Building a Strong Foundation Based on Conceptual Understanding
11.06.08 A Fraction of What We Know

Functions
14.05.08 Using Math Practice Standards to Understand Functions and Their Inverses

Geometry
19.05.02 SmArt Math: Paper Polyominoes and Ceramic Tetradic Cuboids
10.04.01 Geometry and the Real World
10.04.08 Making Connections in Symmetry

Mathematical Thinking
15.05.06 Creating a Culture of Critical Thinkers in the Mathematics Classroom: Reducing Dependency on Key Words
15.05.07 Fractions: Building a Foundation through Conceptual Understanding and Problem Solving
15.05.11 Solving Big Problems: Using Estimation to Develop Scientific Number Sense
14.05.05 Developing Mathematical Minds – Learning Fractions Through Career and Technical
14.05.06 Fearless Problem Solvers Can "Express" Themselves Mathematically
14.05.08 Using Math Practice Standards to Understand Functions and Their Inverses
09.06.03 Mathematics and the Brain: Easy as 1-2-3 Simple Like A-B-C

Order of Magnitude
08.05.03 The Amazing Zero; Starring in: "Place Value, Estimation and Order of Magnitude"
08.05.05 Ballpark Figures: Quantitative Inquiries of Baseball and Beyond!
08.05.08 Estimation in Ecology - the Horseshoe Crab Census

Patterns
10.04.02 Repeat After Me!
10.04.08 Making Connections in Symmetry

Place Value
18.04.02 Place Value Meets Multiplication: Utilizing Place Value to Comprehend Multiplication
18.04.03 Making Number Sense through Relevancy: Place Value, Adding and Subtracting, Decimals, and Estimation
18.04.08 Decimal Place Value: A Culturally Responsive Approach
11.06.01 Using Place Value to Teach Addition and Subtraction, Let's Count the Ways
11.06.02 Exploring Valuable Places: Extended Place Value Concepts into Operations
11.06.03 Cracking the Place Value Code
11.06.04 Algebra Really Is Just Arithmetic
11.06.06 Fractions: Building a Strong Foundation Based on Conceptual Understanding
11.06.11 Boosting Number Sense in High School Students
08.05.01 Each Number in its Place: Teaching Place Value to First Graders

Problem Solving
23.03.04 A Framework for Problem Solving: Schema Development and Discourse
23.03.05 Numerical Development: from whole numbers to fractions
17.05.02 Solving Problems Multiple Ways: Using Arithmetic and Literature - Hooray!
15.05.01 Taking the Problems out of Story Problems
15.05.05 Math at School: Modeling Addition and Subtraction in Everyday Classroom Scenarios
15.05.10 Personalizing Problem Solving
15.05.11 Solving Big Problems: Using Estimation to Develop Scientific Number Sense
11.06.08 A Fraction of What We Know
11.06.11 Boosting Number Sense in High School Students
07.06.07 Linear Expressions and Evaluations
07.06.08 The Art of Solving Word Problems by Using Proportions
07.06.10 Assisting the Transition from English to Mathematical Language

Symmetry
10.04.02 Repeat After Me!
10.04.03 Putting the Pieces Together
10.04.04 The Art of Symmetry
10.04.05 Beyond the Wumps: Exploring Symmetry in Seventh Grade
10.04.07 Patterns, a Different Point of View
10.04.08 Making Connections in Symmetry
10.04.09 Math and Design

Trigonometry
10.04.07 Patterns, a Different Point of View
08.04.08 The Use of Bridge Design in Teaching Mechanics

Word Problems
23.03.04 A Framework for Problem Solving: Schema Development and Discourse
23.03.06 Division of Fractions in Algebra, from real-life applications to abstract equations
23.03.08 From English to Algebra: Solving Linear Equations with Word Problems
17.05.01 Helping Struggling Readers Build Math Understanding through Word Problems
15.05.02 Math is All Around Us: Representing and Solving One-Step Addition and Subtraction Word Problems within 20
15.05.03 Real World Problem Solving in Second Grade Mathematics
15.05.04 Planting a Seed for Problem Solving
14.05.06 Fearless Problem Solvers Can "Express" Themselves Mathematically
14.05.07 The FAL of Linear Relationships: Simple and Complex Word Problem Scenarios with Two Variables
07.06.01 Teaching Addition and Subtraction Word Problems to Children
07.06.02 Crafting Word Problems Even a Child Can Do
07.06.03 A = C - B: Subtraction is the Cousin of Addition
07.06.04 Word Problems in Picture Books: Literature as a Source of Math Word Problems
07.06.05 Dr. Word Problem - Solving Word Problems with the Four Operations Using Singapore Bar Models
07.06.08 The Art of Solving Word Problems by Using Proportions
07.06.09 Word Problems: Looking for the Similarities in Problems to Help Categorize and Solve Them
07.06.12 Quadratic Equations in Word Problems Students Can Relate To

Outside Classroom
24.03.05 Do You Hear What I Hear? Can You See What I See? Poetry Explored
23.02.04 An Inheritance of Cultural Storytelling: Nature-Inspired Paintings
23.02.07 Through the Eyes of a Navajo: Nature Writing
23.02.08 Journaling in Nature: Journaling to Improve Observation and Reflection
20.05.05 Biodiversity Beyond the Four Walls

Project Based Learning
19.02.01 Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
19.03.02 The Right to Vote: Empowerment and Civic Engagement in our Democracy
19.03.03 Understanding Democracy in the Elementary Grades
19.05.01 A Pathway to Understanding Area and Perimeter
19.05.11 From Polyominoes to Planters: Using Manipulatives and Project-Based Learning to Explore Measurement
18.04.08 Decimal Place Value: A Culturally Responsive Approach
18.05.06 Chemical Warfare and the Rise of Antibiotic Resistance
17.02.09 Growing Roots, Stretching Wings: An Exploration of Identity and Voice for English Learners
16.02.07 Using Art-Based Research to Explore Metaphors in Romeo and Juliet with English Language Learners
16.04.04 Energetics of Biofuel - Investigating Alternative Energy Sources by Manufacturing Biodiesel
15.01.08 Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders
15.02.04 To Thine Own self Be True: the Uncovering the Hamlet in You
15.03.03 My City Need' Something
15.05.10 Personalizing Problem Solving
14.03.05 Immigration and Migration: My Family and My Community
14.04.01 Medea: Innocent or Guilty? It's just Rhetoric
13.01.09 Weather and Building Knowledge
13.06.02 Genetically Engineering Cures for Single Gene Diseases
11.03.01 Let Freedom Ring!
08.04.02 Building Bridges in Earthquake Country: From the Past to the Present

Promoting Reading
16.02.01 Reading for Craft through an Author Study
16.02.03 Connecting it All: How Connecting Students to a Text Increases Motivation to Read
16.02.04 Learning Social Skills and Problem Solving with Winnie-the-Pooh
13.02.01 Moving Beyond "Huh?": Ambiguity in Heart of Darkness
11.01.06 Reading Independently with the Bluford Series

Public Speaking
24.01.04 The Eye of the Beholder: Climate Change Awareness
14.04.05 From Insurgent Listener to Word Warrior: Self-advocating through Spoken Word
10.02.02 Tune into the Tone: What Should We Hear Here?
10.02.03 Responsible Citizens Speak Out
09.04.07 Speak Up and Sound Off! Vocal and Rhythmic Patterns in Public Speaking
09.04.09 Listen to the Sound of My Voice: Teaching Poetry to Make Language Whole

Research (see Research)
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
11.04.05 Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
10.03.04 Voices of Emery Secondary: An Oral History Project
10.03.06 Micro Biographical Essays: Students Helping Students Learn about American History

Role Playing/Re-enactment
13.02.10 Living Texts: Analyzing S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders by Thinking, Reading, Acting, and Thinking Again
13.04.09 Vacant Lot: The Chicago Ickes Community Remembered
12.03.07 Behind the Scenes of the Constitutional Convention
12.03.11 What do Presidents really do?
12.05.02 Can You Pill It? Demystifying Painkillers
08.04.02 Building Bridges in Earthquake Country: From the Past to the Present
07.05.08 Modeling Photosynthesis

Science (see Science)
21.04.02 Bringing the Solar System into Our Classroom
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
21.04.07 Our Sun: Through Scientific, Cultural, and Artistic Lenses
21.04.08 Beyond the Rainbow: Investigating the Characteristics of Stars
21.05.08 STEAM and Human Centered Design of Biotechnology
15.05.11 Solving Big Problems: Using Estimation to Develop Scientific Number Sense
12.06.02 Using Biology to Teach Children to Think Like a Scientist
12.06.07 What Can We Learn About Animals?
11.07.04 Building a Heart: The Function and Mechanics
11.07.06 The Perfect Team—Our Heart and Lungs
09.05.04 Green Chemistry: The Future Is in Your Hands
09.05.06 Using Green to Catalyze the Changing of The World
09.05.09 Green Chemistry: Is Water, Water?
08.04.02 Building Bridges in Earthquake Country: From the Past to the Present
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
07.02.03 Using Detective Fiction to Reinforce Problem Solving Strategies and the Scientific Method
07.07.05 Traveling the Solar System through Literature
07.07.06 Space Illustrated: There and Back
06.05.05 Teaching Science and Global Warming
06.05.07 The Case for Biodiesel with Selected Experiments

Social Skills
16.02.04 Learning Social Skills and Problem Solving with Winnie-the-Pooh
11.01.04 Making Friends with Characters: Exploring Friendship through Literature
11.01.07 Taking Pride in Our Character

Spatial Reasoning
08.04.03 Learning by Mistakes-Bridge Failures
08.04.07 The Design and Analysis of Structures
08.04.09 Bridges: Inspired by Nature
07.03.04 The Beautiful Art of Map Making

Special Education
12.06.01 Asking Questions about Learning Disabilities: A Gateway to Self-Determination
09.02.02 The Audacity of Hope for a Hopeless Generation
06.03.11 Children's Literature for Students with Reading Challenges Using Pictures Books and Film

Storytelling
18.03.03 From Prince to King: Black Panther in Text and Film
15.03.07 Telling Stories: Place, Space, and Memory in Chicago's Parks
15.04.02 The Visual Art of Writing
12.02.02 The Storytelling Cycle: Navigating Our Way through the Listening and Sharing of Stories
10.03.12 Connecting to Community: Biography and the Digital Age
09.01.07 A Study of Oral Tradition: Storytelling in Ireland, West Africa and Japan
09.01.08 Keeping the Tradition of African Storytelling Alive
09.01.10 Movie Posters: Capturing the Essence of a Story

Urban (see Urban)
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
13.04.10 Discovering the Invisible Bay Street: Uncovering Emeryville's History and Understanding Our Own
11.04.02 Strange Fruit: An Exploration of Imagery and Socio-politics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
11.04.05 Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
11.04.08 The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text
10.01.02 Historical Perspectives through Analysis of Art and Poetry
09.02.02 The Audacity of Hope for a Hopeless Generation
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?

Visual Arts/Visualization (see Visual Arts)
24.03.07 Empowering Student Voice through Poetry and Multimedia
20.02.03 Understanding Race and Racism Through Faith’s Ringgold’s Work
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
18.02.04 Creatively Communicating through Visual and Verbal Art- Poetry and Murals
18.02.05 Activism and Cultural Identity Through Works of Art in Chicago Neighborhoods
18.03.03 From Prince to King: Black Panther in Text and Film
17.01.01 Image as Text: A Bridge to Critical Literary Analysis
17.01.02 In Their Own Images
17.01.04 From Panel to Pen: Using Greek Mythology to Create Graphic Stories to Enhance the Writing Process for Young Learners
17.01.05 Using Navajo Contemporary Art to Teach Descriptive Writing to ELL Students
17.01.06 Bringing Indigenous Stories to the Classroom through Art and Comics
17.01.08 An American Myth: How Pictures and Texts Have Changed the Narrative of the American Revolution
17.01.09 Kindergarten Writing: Writing as a Form of Art
17.01.10 Minds in the Gutters and Bleeding on the Page: Literacy and Civil Rights History through the MARCH Comics Trilogy
17.02.03 Curating an Identity: Exploration and Expression in the Elementary Art Room
17.02.09 Growing Roots, Stretching Wings: An Exploration of Identity and Voice for English Learners
16.02.07 Using Art-Based Research to Explore Metaphors in Romeo and Juliet with English Language Learners
16.02.08 Reading One Another: Fostering Passion and Identity Growth through African-American Literature
15.01.10 Words of Patriotism: The Pledge of Allegiance
15.02.06 Examining Shakespeare’s Characters, Character’s Choices and the Consequences to Make Them Relevant to Middle School
15.04.01 Look Behind You! Mastering the Art of Suspense with Poe and Hitchcock
15.04.02 The Visual Art of Writing
14.01.02 American Genre Painting: Visual Representations of Slavery and Emancipation, 1850-1870
14.01.03 Whose Destiny? Viewing America's Westward Expansion through Artful Eyes
14.01.05 Experiencing the Revolutionary War Era through Visual Images
14.01.06 Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
14.01.07 Taking a Close Look at Pirates and Mothers
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
14.01.11 Civil Disobedience in Words and Images
14.02.09 Pictures, Poems, and Planets
14.02.11 Visual Poetry
14.04.03 Articulations: Crafting Credible Discourse on Art, Aesthetics, and Design
13.01.05 Inspiring American Women: Painting Them into the Picture
13.01.07 Picturing Paris: Sites and Sights of the City
13.03.01 The Story of Me
13.03.02 Character Traits in Biography
13.03.03 Memoir: Magical Moments in Young Children's Lives
13.03.04 From Narratives to Biography: Who will listen to their stories?
13.03.07 A picture is worth a thousand words: Rediscovering biography
13.03.08 Understanding Character Development Through the Use of Autobiography
13.04.10 Discovering the Invisible Bay Street: Uncovering Emeryville's History and Understanding Our Own
13.05.08 From Plants to Horsepower – an Introduction into the World of Oil
12.01.01 War on the Home Front: Politics and the Zoot Suit
12.03.04 What the Founders could not have Known
12.03.09 Judges, Presidents, and the People: Who Should Interpret the Constitution?
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
11.01.05 Approaching Portraiture: The Character on the Page and on the Canvas
11.03.02 American Ideas in Three Artist Collectives
11.04.02 Strange Fruit: An Exploration of Imagery and Socio-politics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
10.01.02 Historical Perspectives through Analysis of Art and Poetry
10.01.06 Finding the Story through Intermediality: PoetryComics, Animated Poetry and Tableu Vivant
10.01.08 A Palette of Poetry
10.02.03 Responsible Citizens Speak Out
10.03.10 Barack Obama: A Nonfiction Approach to Reading in the "Reel" World through Documentary, Political Images, and Speech
10.03.12 Connecting to Community: Biography and the Digital Age
10.04.01 Geometry and the Real World
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character
09.01.10 Movie Posters: Capturing the Essence of a Story
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
09.03.04 Getting to Know Shakespeare's Characters
09.03.05 Shakespeare on the Cell Phone: Texting Romance
09.06.10 Art is Not Just in the Eye of the Beholder But in the Brain
08.01.04 Shakespeare's Characters: A Visual Analysis
08.01.05 To See or Not to See? A Visual Approach to Identity in Shakespeare
08.06.09 School Lunch, How Healthy Is It?
08.07.05 Considering Case Studies of Chemical Contamination
08.07.10 Environmental Health Issues Meet Algebra
07.04.03 Context Clues: The Appropriation of Malinche and the Virgin of Guadalupe
07.05.08 Modeling Photosynthesis

Writing (see Writing)

Essays
19.01.01 The Death of the Five Paragraph Essay: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay in Middle School
19.01.04 Writers Use Risk before Rigor – Essays by Example

Fiction
08.02.07 Getting Into Character: Finding Voice in Realistic Fiction

Non-Fiction
19.01.01 The Death of the Five Paragraph Essay: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay in Middle School
19.01.02 Pen to Paper with Alexander: The Writing Process for No Good, Very Bad Days
19.01.03 To Whom It May Concern: Considering Audience and Purpose in Writing
10.03.06 Micro Biographical Essays: Students Helping Students Learn about American History
08.02.06 In Their Shoes: Finding Voice through Personal Narrative

Poetry
18.02.04 Creatively Communicating through Visual and Verbal Art- Poetry and Murals
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape
11.02.04 Teaching History through Poetry
11.02.08 Using the Sonnet and Other Poems to Unlock the Speaker's Voice
11.04.08 The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text
10.01.03 From the Thoughts of Another: Comprehension through the Genres of Poetry
09.04.03 Poetic Sounds: Symphonic Synchronization of the Word
08.02.01 Voice in Poetry: Dream a World with Langston Hughes
05.01.01 Discovering Self through Poetry
05.01.02 Thematic Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop
05.01.03 Making the Relevant Connection: The Middle School Student and Poetry An Understanding and Appreciation of Poetry to Inspire the Poet Within
05.01.04 Leaving, Longing, and Left Behind: Poems of Home
05.01.06 A Curriculum Unit in Poetry for Vocational Students
05.01.07 Who’s Your Daddy? Comprehension Strategies and Poetry Basics through Poems about Fathers

Stories
12.02.02 The Storytelling Cycle: Navigating Our Way through the Listening and Sharing of Stories

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
21.01.02 Who Built the American Economy? How Labor Unions Shaped the Early Labor Movement
20.04.10 Engineers Wanted: Climate Change Experience Necessary!
19.02.02 On Criminal Justice Reform: Studying Philadelphia’s New, Reform-Minded District Attorney through a Historical Context
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
17.03.10 Philadelphia, Do you See What I See?
16.02.02 William Butler Yeats Meets an Eighth Grader from West Philadelphia
15.03.03 My City Need' Something
07.04.01 Boricua, Morena: Latin-Caribbean American and African American Cultural Connections En ciudad de Filadelfia

Philippines

History
22.02.04 Creating Filipino Nationality: Race and Hierarchy in the Context of Empire (1886-1916)
22.02.06 Immigration narratives: Hidden Links between U.S. empire and Filipino immigration to the U.S.

Philosophy

17th Century
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

18th Century
13.01.02 Our Visible Social Contract
05.03.05 Citizen Voices in Peace and War: A Portal into Ap English Lit

20th Century

Postmodernism
05.03.08 Postmodernism and the Flexibility of the Constitution

General
13.02.02 Pathways to Making Meaning: Inroads to Interpretation of The Nature of Evil in Heart of Darkness

Photography
24.01.04 The Eye of the Beholder: Climate Change Awareness
23.01.04 The Effect of the Navajo Long Walk Through Photos
22.01.02 Film and Art: Setting the Stage with Framing
11.03.02 American Ideas in Three Artist Collectives

Physics

and Ecology
24.04.08 Force to Energy: Increased Efficiency through Intelligent Design
13.05.04 Fusion: The Energy of the Future?
12.07.02 Solar VS Fossil Fuel Generated Electricity: Can Physics Determine Which is Best For You and Your School?
12.07.08 Energy for the Future, Superheroes Need Not Apply
06.05.04 Global Warming: A Physical Explanation and Implications on Climate

and Energy
24.04.01 Powering Our Community: An Analysis of Washington D.C.’s Renewable Energy Plan

and Health
12.05.03 The Down-Low (DL) on High Blood Pressure

and Technology
11.07.04 Building a Heart: The Function and Mechanics
10.05.04 Nanotechnology and Quantum Mechanics: Bringing High School Physics into the 21st Century
08.04.07 The Design and Analysis of Structures
07.07.04 The Integration of Space Technology into the Physics Classroom

Cosmology
07.07.01 The Origin of the Elements
07.07.02 Beyond The Atom: Interpreting the Origin of the Elements

Drake Equation
07.07.03 Are We Alone?

Electromagentism
21.04.08 Beyond the Rainbow: Investigating the Characteristics of Stars
21.04.09 Analyzing Electromagnetic Wavelengths and Their Interactions
19.04.04 Transfer of Energy through a Food Chain
19.04.09 Demystifying Radiation
18.04.05 Exploring the Metric System and EM Spectrum Through Base Ten Numeration
18.04.06 What Makes a Superhero Super? Putting Scientific Notation in Context

Gravity
22.04.07 How Gravity Impacts Life

Mathematics
18.04.05 Exploring the Metric System and EM Spectrum Through Base Ten Numeration
17.05.10 Exploring Kinematic Proportional Relationships
16.05.04 Beyond the Number Line: Coordinate Systems and Vector Arithmetic
15.05.11 Solving Big Problems: Using Estimation to Develop Scientific Number Sense

Mechanics
24.04.08 Force to Energy: Increased Efficiency through Intelligent Design
11.07.04 Building a Heart: The Function and Mechanics

Nuclear
13.05.04 Fusion: The Energy of the Future?

Spectroscopy
21.04.08 Beyond the Rainbow: Investigating the Characteristics of Stars
21.04.09 Analyzing Electromagnetic Wavelengths and Their Interactions

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
24.01.09 Traces of the Past: From Landscape to Cityscape
16.02.01 Reading for Craft through an Author Study
15.03.10 Pittsburgh: Contending with its Steel Past

Plath, Sylvia
18.03.11 Filmic Adaptations of Mid-Century Bildungsromans Using The Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar
17.03.09 Poetic Visions and Versions of America
10.03.09 Who is Sylvia Plath?–An Inquiry-Based Biography Primer

Poetry
18.02.02 Reflections Upon Reflections: Ekphrasis as Self-Exploration in Middle School ELA
18.02.03 The Third Space: Ekphrasis, Confessional Poetry, and Mental Health
17.03.01 Poetry in Public Discourse: Reading, Writing, and Circulating the Political Poem
16.02.02 William Butler Yeats Meets an Eighth Grader from West Philadelphia
14.02.03 Tearing Poetry Apart: A Short History of How Collage, Concrete, and Conceptual Poems Are Made
14.02.04 Dulce et Decorum Est: Common Core and the Poetry of War
14.02.05 The ABCs of Elementary Reading and Writing Poetry with Animals
14.02.10 Don't Fear the Symmetry: The Poetry of William Blake
13.02.08 Teaching Tone, Mood and Purpose through the Interpretation of Activist Poetry
13.04.05 Invisible Migrations: The Journey from Spanish to English and Back Again Through Performance Poetry
11.01.09 Reading Between the Lines: The Secret Lives of Characters
11.03.09 The Hip-Hopcracy of America
10.01.01 Art and Poetry of the Afro Mestizos
10.01.04 Exploring Cultural Conflict through Poetry and Art
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
10.01.10 Examining Poems about Love and Loss
09.04.01 Embracing the Frumious Bandersnatch: Sound, Rhyme, and Nonsense in Poetry for Young Children
08.02.01 Voice in Poetry: Dream a World with Langston Hughes
08.02.04 Speak Words, Recite Messages: The Oral Interpretation of the Word

African American
18.02.10 The Spirit Task: African Americans Reclaim Power through Art and Poetry
15.01.07 Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
11.04.06 La Francophonie, beyond the Hexagon
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
09.04.08 The Sound Within: An Exploration of Prosodic Elements in Poetry
08.02.04 Speak Words, Recite Messages: The Oral Interpretation of the Word
08.02.05 Lift Every Voice and Sing An Analysis of Social Change "Hope" through Voices of Hip-Hop
05.01.05 Rhymes and Rhythms of Black History
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

Hughes, Langston
24.03.04 The Harlem Renaissance in Sounds and Image
14.02.07 Poetry Café: The World of Langston Hughes
13.02.07 Interpreting the Literal for the Revelational
11.01.09 Reading Between the Lines: The Secret Lives of Characters
11.02.08 Using the Sonnet and Other Poems to Unlock the Speaker's Voice
10.01.02 Historical Perspectives through Analysis of Art and Poetry
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
08.02.01 Voice in Poetry: Dream a World with Langston Hughes
08.02.02 The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice

American
17.03.05 Poetry of Defiance-From the Progressive Era to Today
17.03.06 Poetry in Notion: The Hartford Wits and the Emergence of an American Identity
17.03.07 A Private Moment in Public View: Analysis of Muslim Poets and Political Activists from the 20th Century to Today
17.03.08 America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry

Doolittle, Hilda
05.01.14 Building Blocks for Poetry: Vertical Team Sequencing for Effective Poetic Analysis

Frost, Robert
11.02.02 Lyric Poetry: The Sonnet

Kipling, Rudyard
17.03.10 Philadelphia, Do you See What I See?

Poe, Edgar Allen
05.01.14 Building Blocks for Poetry: Vertical Team Sequencing for Effective Poetic Analysis

Sandburg, Carl
17.03.10 Philadelphia, Do you See What I See?
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape

Whitman, Walt
24.03.07 Empowering Student Voice through Poetry and Multimedia
17.03.10 Philadelphia, Do you See What I See?
11.02.03 The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History
11.02.06 Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets
11.02.08 Using the Sonnet and Other Poems to Unlock the Speaker's Voice
08.02.02 The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice
05.01.10 Looking Forward: Whitman and the Creative Spirit in American Poetry

and Art
18.02.04 Creatively Communicating through Visual and Verbal Art- Poetry and Murals
18.02.05 Activism and Cultural Identity Through Works of Art in Chicago Neighborhoods
18.02.06 Ekphrastic Poetry in the Second Language Classroom
18.02.07 The Words Inside Me: Learning to Express Myself through Words
10.01.04 Exploring Cultural Conflict through Poetry and Art
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
10.01.07 Writing about the Big Picture: American Ekphrasis
10.01.08 A Palette of Poetry
10.01.09 Lying to Tell the Truth: Archetypes, Art, and Imagery

and Music
05.01.12 The Inspired Voice: Invoking Poetry through Music

and Nature
23.02.01 Why Nature? Noticing and Writing in the Wild

and Pedagogy
18.02.02 Reflections Upon Reflections: Ekphrasis as Self-Exploration in Middle School ELA
18.02.03 The Third Space: Ekphrasis, Confessional Poetry, and Mental Health
14.02.01 Life Happens: Thinking about Key Life Transitions and Identity through Poetry
14.02.02 Growing Up Yo in New Haven: Teaching Spanish through Bilingual Slam Poetry
14.02.03 Tearing Poetry Apart: A Short History of How Collage, Concrete, and Conceptual Poems Are Made
10.01.11 Demystifying Poetry Using Women's Ekphrasis
09.04.03 Poetic Sounds: Symphonic Synchronization of the Word
09.04.07 Speak Up and Sound Off! Vocal and Rhythmic Patterns in Public Speaking
05.01.01 Discovering Self through Poetry
05.01.02 Thematic Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop
05.01.03 Making the Relevant Connection: The Middle School Student and Poetry An Understanding and Appreciation of Poetry to Inspire the Poet Within
05.01.04 Leaving, Longing, and Left Behind: Poems of Home
05.01.06 A Curriculum Unit in Poetry for Vocational Students
05.01.07 Who’s Your Daddy? Comprehension Strategies and Poetry Basics through Poems about Fathers
05.01.09 A Century of War in Poetry: 1915-2015
05.01.13 Poetry's Idyllic and Intriguing Patterns for Kindergarten
05.01.14 Building Blocks for Poetry: Vertical Team Sequencing for Effective Poetic Analysis

and Public Life
18.02.04 Creatively Communicating through Visual and Verbal Art- Poetry and Murals
17.03.01 Poetry in Public Discourse: Reading, Writing, and Circulating the Political Poem
17.03.02 Poetry as a Dialectic in the Public Sphere
17.03.03 Making Our Communities Visible: Poetry, Rhetoric and Social Justice
17.03.04 Poetry and Public Life through Cultural Perspective and Relevancy
17.03.05 Poetry of Defiance-From the Progressive Era to Today
17.03.06 Poetry in Notion: The Hartford Wits and the Emergence of an American Identity
17.03.07 A Private Moment in Public View: Analysis of Muslim Poets and Political Activists from the 20th Century to Today
17.03.08 America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry
17.03.09 Poetic Visions and Versions of America
17.03.10 Philadelphia, Do you See What I See?
13.02.08 Teaching Tone, Mood and Purpose through the Interpretation of Activist Poetry
10.01.04 Exploring Cultural Conflict through Poetry and Art
09.04.07 Speak Up and Sound Off! Vocal and Rhythmic Patterns in Public Speaking

and Science
14.02.09 Pictures, Poems, and Planets
06.05.06 A Planet Worth a Thousand Words: An English Teacher's Guide to Global Warming

British

Blake, William
18.02.01 The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry
17.01.07 Multiple Literacies Being Developed in the Literature Classroom: Hieroglyphics to Graphic Novels
14.02.10 Don't Fear the Symmetry: The Poetry of William Blake

Ekphrastik
18.02.01 The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry
18.02.02 Reflections Upon Reflections: Ekphrasis as Self-Exploration in Middle School ELA
18.02.03 The Third Space: Ekphrasis, Confessional Poetry, and Mental Health
18.02.04 Creatively Communicating through Visual and Verbal Art- Poetry and Murals
18.02.05 Activism and Cultural Identity Through Works of Art in Chicago Neighborhoods
18.02.06 Ekphrastic Poetry in the Second Language Classroom
18.02.07 The Words Inside Me: Learning to Express Myself through Words
18.02.08 Ekphrastic Poetry: Connecting with the Original Language and Culture Through Poetry
18.02.09 Reflective Self Portraits: A Study of Oneself through Ekphrastic Poetry and Art
18.02.10 The Spirit Task: African Americans Reclaim Power through Art and Poetry
10.01.04 Exploring Cultural Conflict through Poetry and Art
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
10.01.07 Writing about the Big Picture: American Ekphrasis
10.01.09 Lying to Tell the Truth: Archetypes, Art, and Imagery
10.01.10 Examining Poems about Love and Loss
10.01.11 Demystifying Poetry Using Women's Ekphrasis
05.01.13 Poetry's Idyllic and Intriguing Patterns for Kindergarten

Elegiac
10.01.10 Examining Poems about Love and Loss

Irish

Yeats, William Butler
16.02.02 William Butler Yeats Meets an Eighth Grader from West Philadelphia

Latin American
14.02.01 Life Happens: Thinking about Key Life Transitions and Identity through Poetry

Afro Mestizo
10.01.01 Art and Poetry of the Afro Mestizos

Neruda, Pablo
08.02.02 The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice

Native American
24.03.01 Poetry Through Hózhó: The Beauty Way of Life
14.02.08 Using Poetry Songs to Teach Fluency Using Literature about Navajo Culture in an ELL Classroom
13.02.03 Seasonal Dine/Navajo Poetry: Interpreting the Seasons through Dine/Navajo Culture

Reading of
18.02.01 The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry
18.02.03 The Third Space: Ekphrasis, Confessional Poetry, and Mental Health
18.02.04 Creatively Communicating through Visual and Verbal Art- Poetry and Murals
18.02.06 Ekphrastic Poetry in the Second Language Classroom
17.03.01 Poetry in Public Discourse: Reading, Writing, and Circulating the Political Poem
17.03.02 Poetry as a Dialectic in the Public Sphere
17.03.05 Poetry of Defiance-From the Progressive Era to Today
17.03.06 Poetry in Notion: The Hartford Wits and the Emergence of an American Identity
17.03.07 A Private Moment in Public View: Analysis of Muslim Poets and Political Activists from the 20th Century to Today
17.03.08 America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry
14.02.01 Life Happens: Thinking about Key Life Transitions and Identity through Poetry
14.02.06 The Sestina: having Fun with Form and Content
14.02.09 Pictures, Poems, and Planets
14.02.10 Don't Fear the Symmetry: The Poetry of William Blake
11.01.09 Reading Between the Lines: The Secret Lives of Characters
10.01.03 From the Thoughts of Another: Comprehension through the Genres of Poetry
09.04.01 Embracing the Frumious Bandersnatch: Sound, Rhyme, and Nonsense in Poetry for Young Children
09.04.02 Change Moans and Groans to a Love of Tone: Teaching Students to Listen to Text
09.04.04 Discovering Voice
09.04.05 ¡Que Bello es el Sonido de la Poesía! Teaching Sounds and Culture Through Poetry
09.04.06 The Unknown Voice of My Students
09.04.10 The Sound of Poetry
08.02.08 Finding One's Voice
05.01.01 Discovering Self through Poetry
05.01.02 Thematic Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop
05.01.03 Making the Relevant Connection: The Middle School Student and Poetry An Understanding and Appreciation of Poetry to Inspire the Poet Within
05.01.06 A Curriculum Unit in Poetry for Vocational Students
05.01.07 Who’s Your Daddy? Comprehension Strategies and Poetry Basics through Poems about Fathers
05.01.10 Looking Forward: Whitman and the Creative Spirit in American Poetry
05.01.14 Building Blocks for Poetry: Vertical Team Sequencing for Effective Poetic Analysis

Sestina
14.02.06 The Sestina: having Fun with Form and Content

Sonnets
18.02.01 The Poetics of Truth and Beauty: A Practical Approach to Reading and Understanding Ekphrastic Poetry
11.02.01 Unfettered Genius: The African American Sonnet
11.02.02 Lyric Poetry: The Sonnet
11.02.03 The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History
11.02.04 Teaching History through Poetry
11.02.05 From Inquiry to Interpretation: A Passage through the Sonnet
11.02.06 Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets
11.02.07 Sounds So Sweet
11.02.08 Using the Sonnet and Other Poems to Unlock the Speaker's Voice
11.02.09 The Concealed Story
10.01.10 Examining Poems about Love and Loss
08.01.10 Detecting Shakespeare's Sonnets
05.01.11 Studying the Sonnet: An Introduction to the Importance of Form in Poetry

Love

Politics
17.03.01 Poetry in Public Discourse: Reading, Writing, and Circulating the Political Poem
17.03.02 Poetry as a Dialectic in the Public Sphere
17.03.04 Poetry and Public Life through Cultural Perspective and Relevancy

Spoken Word
24.03.02 Captain Underpants, Poetry Outside the Box
14.02.02 Growing Up Yo in New Haven: Teaching Spanish through Bilingual Slam Poetry
13.04.04 Travel Stories: Mapping the Vision, Walking the Journey
11.03.09 The Hip-Hopcracy of America
09.04.02 Change Moans and Groans to a Love of Tone: Teaching Students to Listen to Text
09.04.05 ¡Que Bello es el Sonido de la Poesía! Teaching Sounds and Culture Through Poetry
09.04.07 Speak Up and Sound Off! Vocal and Rhythmic Patterns in Public Speaking
09.04.08 The Sound Within: An Exploration of Prosodic Elements in Poetry
09.04.09 Listen to the Sound of My Voice: Teaching Poetry to Make Language Whole
09.04.10 The Sound of Poetry
08.02.04 Speak Words, Recite Messages: The Oral Interpretation of the Word
05.01.12 The Inspired Voice: Invoking Poetry through Music

Writing of
24.03.01 Poetry Through Hózhó: The Beauty Way of Life
24.03.02 Captain Underpants, Poetry Outside the Box
24.03.05 Do You Hear What I Hear? Can You See What I See? Poetry Explored
24.03.06 Sight, Sound, and Satire: Exploring Calaveras Literarias
24.03.08 Tupac the Poet and Lyricist: The State of Texas vs. Emergent Bilinguals
24.03.09 Transforming Poetry of Witness to Performance of Protest
18.02.03 The Third Space: Ekphrasis, Confessional Poetry, and Mental Health
18.02.04 Creatively Communicating through Visual and Verbal Art- Poetry and Murals
17.03.01 Poetry in Public Discourse: Reading, Writing, and Circulating the Political Poem
17.03.02 Poetry as a Dialectic in the Public Sphere
17.03.04 Poetry and Public Life through Cultural Perspective and Relevancy
14.02.01 Life Happens: Thinking about Key Life Transitions and Identity through Poetry
14.02.02 Growing Up Yo in New Haven: Teaching Spanish through Bilingual Slam Poetry
14.02.06 The Sestina: having Fun with Form and Content
14.02.09 Pictures, Poems, and Planets
14.02.10 Don't Fear the Symmetry: The Poetry of William Blake
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape
13.04.04 Travel Stories: Mapping the Vision, Walking the Journey
11.02.04 Teaching History through Poetry
11.02.07 Sounds So Sweet
11.02.09 The Concealed Story
11.04.08 The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text
10.01.03 From the Thoughts of Another: Comprehension through the Genres of Poetry
10.01.05 Reading Art through Poetry
09.04.03 Poetic Sounds: Symphonic Synchronization of the Word
08.02.01 Voice in Poetry: Dream a World with Langston Hughes
05.01.01 Discovering Self through Poetry
05.01.02 Thematic Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop
05.01.03 Making the Relevant Connection: The Middle School Student and Poetry An Understanding and Appreciation of Poetry to Inspire the Poet Within
05.01.04 Leaving, Longing, and Left Behind: Poems of Home
05.01.06 A Curriculum Unit in Poetry for Vocational Students
05.01.07 Who’s Your Daddy? Comprehension Strategies and Poetry Basics through Poems about Fathers
05.01.13 Poetry's Idyllic and Intriguing Patterns for Kindergarten

Pokémon
16.06.03 Gotta Evolve ‘Em All! Evolutionary Ideas for 1st Graders

Politics

Activism
21.01.05 Latinx Biographies and Social Activism: An Untold Latinx History
21.01.06 Artist in Action: Examining the Activism of James Weldon Johnson and Augusta Savage
21.01.07 AIM and Native American political activism in the 20th century
21.01.10 From Handmaids to Riot Grrrls, using Fiction to Understand Social Movements
21.02.06 How Hip-Hop Moved The Crowd to Social Activism
21.03.05 Breaking Barriers: The Fight for Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Civil Rights
21.03.07 Cause and Effect: Inequality and Activism
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
16.01.02 Interpreting Moments of American Indian Activism
16.01.08 The Menominee Journey to Self Determination
15.01.08 Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders
14.04.05 From Insurgent Listener to Word Warrior: Self-advocating through Spoken Word
14.04.07 Energizing the Debate: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Sources of Energy
14.04.09 Rhetoric in My World: Engaging Students in Rhetorical Analysis through Political Speechwriting
08.03.05 Democracy (in)Action: Promoting Critical Youth Consciousness and Participation

Local
13.02.08 Teaching Tone, Mood and Purpose through the Interpretation of Activist Poetry
10.02.06 Creating Authentic Student Leadership through Rhetoric

African
08.03.06 Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One: An Examination of Democratic and Other Political Values as Depicted in Literature

American

and Economics
20.03.06 Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance
18.01.04 The American Dream,

and Media
12.03.04 What the Founders could not have Known

Campaigns
21.01.04 Mobilizing Change: Lessons Learned from Obama’s 2008 Campaign
12.03.04 What the Founders could not have Known

Carceral State (see Criminal Justice; Law)
19.02.01 Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
19.02.02 On Criminal Justice Reform: Studying Philadelphia’s New, Reform-Minded District Attorney through a Historical Context
19.02.04 Understanding and Challenging the Overcriminalization of Youth of Color
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

Censorship
06.02.07 Our Right to Read, to Learn, and to Think: Ray Bradbury's Prediction

Citizenship
21.03.10 Democracy: The Ancient World and Modern Implications
19.03.04 Grade Level Gavel Student Court: Justice for All
13.02.04 Teaching Post-Civil War History in Document-Based Fiction
12.02.04 Hungry for Knowledge: Using The Hunger Games to teach American Principles of Citizenship
12.04.01 An Introduction to African American Participation in Citizenship
12.04.06 Why do you want my children? A Glimpse into Native American Citizenship
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
11.03.01 Let Freedom Ring!
11.03.03 My Fellow Americans…A Trip through American History via Presidential Inaugural Addresses

Civil Rights (see Civil Rights)
19.03.01 Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements
19.03.06 Expanding Rights in American Democracy – Coalitions, Conflict, & Controversy
16.01.02 Interpreting Moments of American Indian Activism
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
15.01.08 Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders
13.01.02 Our Visible Social Contract
12.01.01 War on the Home Front: Politics and the Zoot Suit
12.04.06 Why do you want my children? A Glimpse into Native American Citizenship
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
09.02.01 Competing Paths of Struggle: African American Resistance to White Oppression, 1863-1896
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?
09.02.06 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
05.01.08 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
05.03.03 Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: Using Enlightenment Philosophy to Teach Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
05.03.07 Racial Profiling and Terrorism
05.03.12 Dilemma of a Democracy: Liberty and Security

Civil Rights Act of 1964
19.03.01 Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements
06.02.05 Obedience and Defiance: The Rule of Law in American History

Climate Change
14.04.07 Energizing the Debate: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Sources of Energy

Constitution
15.01.10 Words of Patriotism: The Pledge of Allegiance
12.03.04 What the Founders could not have Known
12.04.01 An Introduction to African American Participation in Citizenship
11.03.05 Reviving American Ideas: The U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists and the 28th Amendment
09.02.05 Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
09.02.08 Setbacks to Suffrage: Inquiry into the Process

Demagogy
10.02.01 Hugo Chávez: ¿Persuasión Retórica o Demagógica?

Democracy (see Democracy)
21.03.07 Cause and Effect: Inequality and Activism
21.03.08 Jim Crow 2.0: Voter Suppression in the 21st Century
21.03.09 Democracy & Inequality: To be or not to be?
21.03.10 Democracy: The Ancient World and Modern Implications
19.03.03 Understanding Democracy in the Elementary Grades
12.03.01 I think, therefore I do? Conscious and unconscious factors influencing our choice for President of the United States
11.03.04 Exporting the Idea of America
09.02.05 Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
08.03.07 Why Rome Fell and Is the United States Next?
08.03.08 Is America a Successful Democracy: A Critical Inquiry

Elections
21.01.04 Mobilizing Change: Lessons Learned from Obama’s 2008 Campaign
19.03.07 The Different Types of Government and The Vote
12.03.01 I think, therefore I do? Conscious and unconscious factors influencing our choice for President of the United States
12.03.04 What the Founders could not have Known
12.03.11 What do Presidents really do?
08.03.01 Road to the White House: Campaign for the Presidency
08.03.02 I'll Vote for That, but Why? The United States Constitution and Presidential Elections
08.03.03 The Elections of 1800 and 2000. How Crisis Elections Have Shaped the Practice of Democracy in United States History

Emergency Assistance
11.04.02 Strange Fruit: An Exploration of Imagery and Socio-politics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
11.04.10 New Orleans: Human Gifts, Human Lessons

Engagement
13.02.08 Teaching Tone, Mood and Purpose through the Interpretation of Activist Poetry
11.03.05 Reviving American Ideas: The U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists and the 28th Amendment

Equal Rights Amendment
21.03.05 Breaking Barriers: The Fight for Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Civil Rights

Gender (see Gender)
21.03.05 Breaking Barriers: The Fight for Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Civil Rights
14.04.01 Medea: Innocent or Guilty? It's just Rhetoric
13.01.05 Inspiring American Women: Painting Them into the Picture
09.02.08 Setbacks to Suffrage: Inquiry into the Process

Global Influence
11.03.04 Exporting the Idea of America

Identity (see Identity)
17.02.11 Whose America? Americans in the Americas and Inequality
17.03.06 Poetry in Notion: The Hartford Wits and the Emergence of an American Identity
17.03.09 Poetic Visions and Versions of America
15.01.10 Words of Patriotism: The Pledge of Allegiance
11.03.01 Let Freedom Ring!
11.03.03 My Fellow Americans…A Trip through American History via Presidential Inaugural Addresses
09.02.09 Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
08.02.02 The Poetry of Self: Using American Voices to Shape Your Own Voice
08.03.04 Our Spiritual Strivings: Understanding African American Identities in a Conflicted American Democracy

Immigration (see Immigration)
19.03.05 Current Refugee and Immigrant Policy in the United States: How Do They Impact Your Community?
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
15.04.07 Immigration and the Narrative Voice: Analysis of Image and Sound in Film and Its Connection to the Immigrants' Stories
12.03.06 The First Twenty Years: Whiskey, Aliens… and Shopping!
12.04.05 From Three Rivers to Arlington: Mexican American Civil Rights to 1954
09.02.09 Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation

Lobbying
15.01.02 Helping Students

Local
13.04.09 Vacant Lot: The Chicago Ickes Community Remembered
11.04.02 Strange Fruit: An Exploration of Imagery and Socio-politics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
11.04.09 The Responsibility Is Ours: Preserving Intangible Heritage
11.04.10 New Orleans: Human Gifts, Human Lessons
09.02.03 Turning Hope into Reality
08.04.04 Building Bridges Over Turbulent Middle School Waters

National Security
05.03.02 The Critical Balance Threatened: Personal Liberties and National Security in Time of War
05.03.10 Precedents for the USA PATRIOT Act: Military Tribunals
05.03.12 Dilemma of a Democracy: Liberty and Security

Terrorism
05.03.07 Racial Profiling and Terrorism

of Sexuality
19.03.06 Expanding Rights in American Democracy – Coalitions, Conflict, & Controversy
09.02.07 That’s My Right, too: Punishment for Being Different

Parties
20.03.04 What Have You Done For Me Lately; A Tale of Two Parties

Protest
19.03.01 Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements
17.03.05 Poetry of Defiance-From the Progressive Era to Today
16.01.02 Interpreting Moments of American Indian Activism
14.01.11 Civil Disobedience in Words and Images
12.03.06 The First Twenty Years: Whiskey, Aliens… and Shopping!
09.02.07 That’s My Right, too: Punishment for Being Different
09.02.08 Setbacks to Suffrage: Inquiry into the Process
08.03.09 Taxes, Rebellion, and the Birth of a New Nation
05.01.09 A Century of War in Poetry: 1915-2015
05.03.01 The Courage to Be An Enemy of the People

Occupy Wall Street Movement
21.03.07 Cause and Effect: Inequality and Activism

Rhetoric (see Rhetoric)
14.04.05 From Insurgent Listener to Word Warrior: Self-advocating through Spoken Word
14.04.06 Elements of Rhetoric in the Language-Learning Classroom: Convince Me You are Fluent!
14.04.07 Energizing the Debate: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Sources of Energy
11.03.03 My Fellow Americans…A Trip through American History via Presidential Inaugural Addresses
10.02.01 Hugo Chávez: ¿Persuasión Retórica o Demagógica?
10.02.05 Speak up! Presidential Rhetoric in the Modern Era
10.02.08 To Persuade or Not to Persuade: The Makings of a Persuasive Speech
10.02.09 Barack Obama's Rhetoric: The Trajectory of a Post-Racial America?
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters
08.02.04 Speak Words, Recite Messages: The Oral Interpretation of the Word
06.02.01 The Language of Justice

Slavery and Reconstruction
19.03.04 Grade Level Gavel Student Court: Justice for All
13.02.04 Teaching Post-Civil War History in Document-Based Fiction
12.04.03 For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws
11.03.07 American Tapestry: Interconnectedness Revealed through Historical Fiction
09.02.01 Competing Paths of Struggle: African American Resistance to White Oppression, 1863-1896
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters
07.03.01 The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Freedom: Using Slave Narratives and Negro Spirituals as Maps

Sports
20.02.06 Collusion in the Owner’s Box: How Racism and Oppression Have Built the American Sports Industry

State
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

Supreme Court (see Supreme Court)
12.04.05 From Three Rivers to Arlington: Mexican American Civil Rights to 1954
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
09.02.07 That’s My Right, too: Punishment for Being Different
06.02.02 The Powers We Accept: A Brief Unit on the Supreme Court
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

Voting Rights
21.03.08 Jim Crow 2.0: Voter Suppression in the 21st Century
21.03.09 Democracy & Inequality: To be or not to be?
20.03.06 Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance
19.03.01 Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements
19.03.10 Chasing the Dream: The Civil Rights Movement and Desire for American Equality
06.02.05 Obedience and Defiance: The Rule of Law in American History

War (see War)
14.01.12 Reading Art in Language Arts: Characterizing Human Atrocities from the Slave Trade to the Second World War
12.03.08 The American President and War Powers: Combatting views

and Poetry
17.03.01 Poetry in Public Discourse: Reading, Writing, and Circulating the Political Poem
17.03.02 Poetry as a Dialectic in the Public Sphere
17.03.03 Making Our Communities Visible: Poetry, Rhetoric and Social Justice
17.03.04 Poetry and Public Life through Cultural Perspective and Relevancy
17.03.06 Poetry in Notion: The Hartford Wits and the Emergence of an American Identity
17.03.08 America the Beautiful: A Look at Race and Acceptance in America through Poetry
08.03.08 Is America a Successful Democracy: A Critical Inquiry

Comparative
20.03.04 What Have You Done For Me Lately; A Tale of Two Parties
08.03.07 Why Rome Fell and Is the United States Next?

Environmental
24.01.02 The Land & The People: Ecocritical Art Analysis of Industrialization

Global
10.02.04 The Role of Persuasion in Global Politics: The United Nations and Millennium Development Goals

Latin American
10.02.01 Hugo Chávez: ¿Persuasión Retórica o Demagógica?

Peace
19.02.07 A History of Peacemaking and Incarceration with the Dine People
15.01.08 Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders

Political Economy
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character
08.03.09 Taxes, Rebellion, and the Birth of a New Nation
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

Terrorism
08.03.11 Democracy, Terrorism and the American Criminal Justice System
05.03.07 Racial Profiling and Terrorism
05.03.13 Arthur Miller's History Lesson: The Crucible as a Link from the Past through McCarthyism to Present-Day Terrorism

Totalitarianism
21.03.11 Orwell’s Dystopian Inequality: Fact or Fiction?

Urban (see Urban)
13.04.01 The Study of a Zip Code: Tulsa's Invisible City
13.04.03 Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure

Psychiatry

Psychoanalysis
15.04.03 Film, Freud and Fitzgerald: A Psychoanalytical Critique of The Great Gatsby and Jazz Age Values

Psychology (see Mental Health)

Children
22.01.03 Social Emotional Learning through Film
22.01.05 Themes in Encanto and Wadjda
15.02.01 Sticks and Stones: The Bully and the Bullies in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest
13.03.08 Understanding Character Development Through the Use of Autobiography
11.01.03 You'll Stumble in My Footsteps: Character Traits, Choices, and Outcomes in Literature
11.01.04 Making Friends with Characters: Exploring Friendship through Literature
06.03.05 Hey Wait! I Think I've Read about Something Like That! Using Bibliotherapy to Help Teenagers Cope with Issues in Their Lives

Choice
12.03.01 I think, therefore I do? Conscious and unconscious factors influencing our choice for President of the United States

Disorders
15.04.06 Deepening One's Understanding of Psychological Disorders through Film: From One Extreme to Another - Depression and Schizophrenia

Social
12.02.01 Non-Violent Fictional Characters as a Means to Character-Building: Ferdinand the Flower-Friendly Bull and Chrysanthemum the Brave Blooming Mouse
12.02.05 The Truth about Lies: Recognizing Lies, Stereotypes, and Prejudice through Memoir Reading and Writing
11.01.07 Taking Pride in Our Character
07.01.10 Political Socialization: Finding Ourselves in Film

Empathy
21.02.03 Family of Empathy
12.02.09 Empathy Through The Eyes of A Creature: A Journey Into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
11.01.04 Making Friends with Characters: Exploring Friendship through Literature
11.01.10 Taking a Role in History: Reading Biography with Empathy

Public Health (see Health)
20.03.07 Health and Public Policy
20.04.11 Mask On: Clearing the Air: the Challenges of Indoor Air Pollution on Urban Health and Academic Performance
18.05.10 Vaccines and the Outbreak of Nonsense
17.06.03 Economics and Community Health - The Wealth-Health Paradigm
17.06.04 Water... "Good To The Last Drop"
16.04.07 Náhasdzáán Nílchi Binaadohígíí - Carbon Dioxide
15.06.06 Statistical Methods and Health in Chicago
15.06.08 Every Breath You Take - Air Pollution’s Effects on Respiratory Health
12.05.10 Antibacterial Gone Viral – Understanding Immune Response in Bacterial and Viral Infectious Diseases
11.05.05 Survival Chemistry: Using Everyday Things to Create Energy and Drinking Water
10.05.02 Nanotechnology and Clean Water: How Safe Is Our Drinking Water?
10.05.08 Health and the Invisible World
10.06.01 I Use Sanitizer; Why Do I Still Get Sick?
10.06.04 Human Health: Correlation, Causation, and Evolution
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
09.05.06 Using Green to Catalyze the Changing of The World

Public History
18.01.02 A Church Hill: The Birth, Death, Revival But What About the Children?
15.03.01 Richmond’s Divisive Monuments: A Look into One City’s Debate over Public Art, Memory, and History
15.03.02 Silicon Valley’s Otro Lado, Youth Voices Speak About Their Community in Film
15.03.03 My City Need' Something
15.03.05 A Public History of Public Housing: Richmond, Virginia
15.03.06 Looking at Desegregation through Local Narratives: A Case Study at Tulsa Central High School
15.03.07 Telling Stories: Place, Space, and Memory in Chicago's Parks
15.03.09 The History and Analysis of Public Art: Using Delaware’s Desegregation History as a Ground to Learn, Interpret, and Create
15.03.10 Pittsburgh: Contending with its Steel Past

Public Policy
20.03.07 Health and Public Policy
20.03.09 What Does a Camel and Vaping Have to Do with Public Policy?
20.03.10 Nothing Without Us: Bringing Justice to Public Policy

Public Speaking
24.01.04 The Eye of the Beholder: Climate Change Awareness
14.04.05 From Insurgent Listener to Word Warrior: Self-advocating through Spoken Word
14.04.09 Rhetoric in My World: Engaging Students in Rhetorical Analysis through Political Speechwriting
14.04.10 Eloquence and Authenticity: Who Are You and Why Should I Listen To You?
10.02.02 Tune into the Tone: What Should We Hear Here?
10.02.03 Responsible Citizens Speak Out
10.02.04 The Role of Persuasion in Global Politics: The United Nations and Millennium Development Goals
10.02.06 Creating Authentic Student Leadership through Rhetoric
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
09.04.07 Speak Up and Sound Off! Vocal and Rhythmic Patterns in Public Speaking
09.04.09 Listen to the Sound of My Voice: Teaching Poetry to Make Language Whole