Category Archives: 2017

Stay Woke: Exploring, Unpacking and Finding out Who I am

January 31, 2018 – 2:52 pm

Latonda Mitchell, Second Grade, Mountain Island Lake Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Media Literacy, Minorities, power, self-image, Stereotypes, woke | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Media and Minorities: Unpacking Stereotypes

Ch-Ch-Changes: Exploring Stereotypes in Children’s Media and Literature

January 31, 2018 – 2:50 pm

Kim Scouller Second Grade Barringer Academic Center

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Children's Literature, children’s media, digital storytelling, Media, Stereotypes | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Media and Minorities: Unpacking Stereotypes

Recognition of the Power of Stereotypical Images of African Americans in Media

January 31, 2018 – 2:47 pm

Franchone Bey, English, West Charlotte High School

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags High School, Media, Minorities, Racism, Stereotypes | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Media and Minorities: Unpacking Stereotypes

Deconstructing Yo Fresh

January 31, 2018 – 2:45 pm

Eli Davis, Special Education, Lincoln Heights Academy

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags Consumerism, Media, Minorities, Minoritization, People of color | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Media and Minorities: Unpacking Stereotypes

Stereotypical Scientists Unearthed: Will the Real Scientists Please Stand Up!

January 31, 2018 – 2:43 pm

DeNise Gerst, Science, Barringer Academic Center

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags identity, image, minority, mythical, real, Science, Stereotypes | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Media and Minorities: Unpacking Stereotypes

The Harmful Effect the 2016 Presidential Election Has on Immigrant and English Language Learning Students

January 31, 2018 – 2:40 pm

Audrey Dorante, History, East Mecklenburg HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Analysis, campaign, discrimination, diversity, Donald Trump, elections, English Language Learners, High School, Immigrants, Media, Rhetoric, stereotyping | Permalink | Comments Off

How Come You Ain’t Never Like Me? Identity Development in August Wilson’s ‘Fences’

January 31, 2018 – 2:36 pm

Annette Teasdell, English/ History, North Mecklenburg HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags august wilson, Disabilities, diversity, Drama, Ethnocentrism, Feminism, Fences, High School, identity development, Intersectionality, Marginalization, Media Images, Racism, Social Development, Stereotypes, the New Racism | Permalink | Comments Off

Understanding the Use of Social Media and Its Impact on School Suspension

January 31, 2018 – 1:21 pm

Vertina Rhim, Math, Whitewater MS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags constant of proportionality, coordinate plane, covariance, equation, Facebook, In-School Suspension, Instagram, Math, Middle School, Origin, Out-of-School Suspension, percent of change, proportional reasoning, rate, ratio, snapchat | Permalink | Comments Off

The Over Incarceration of America

January 31, 2018 – 1:18 pm

Paige Laurain, Math, West Charlotte HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Box and Whiskers Plot, High School, histogram, Linear Regression, Math, Math 1, measures of center, Measures of Spread, Statistics | Permalink | Comments Off

Rational Thinking: Voting, Fairness, and the 2016 Presidential Election

January 31, 2018 – 1:16 pm

Kelly McManus, Math, Martin Luther King, Jr. MS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags ” academic conversations, close reading, critical thinking, integers, literacy, Math, metacognitive “think alouds, Middle School, rational numbers, real-world application | Permalink | Comments Off

Using Google Maps to Explore Food Deserts

January 31, 2018 – 1:13 pm

Katelyn Gardepe, Fifth Grade, Selwyn ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Elementary School, Food Deserts, Food Insecurity, Food Secure, Fourth Grade Health, Hunger, Malnutrition, Math, Metric Conversions, Numbers in Base Ten, place value, social issues | Permalink | Comments Off

Immigration and the Mathematical Mind

January 31, 2018 – 1:10 pm

Jimi’ E. Rogers, Kindergarten, Nations Ford ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Analyze, attributes, categorization, collect, DACA, data, Elementary School, emigrate, Immigration, immigration policy, interpret, Math, pose, represent | Permalink | Comments Off

Wealth Inequality

January 31, 2018 – 1:07 pm

Jeffrey Barnes, Math, Rocky River HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Appreciate, Asset, base, compound interest, exponential functions, growth/decay factor, High School, Income, increasing/decreasing intervals, Inequality, Math, principal, rate, transformations, Wealth, x-intercept, y-intercept | Permalink | Comments Off

How Did My Favorite Pair of Shoes Come on the Market?

January 31, 2018 – 1:03 pm

Emiko Furuya, Fifth Grade, Waddell Language Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags cheap labor, child labor, data, Math, Mathematics, Statistics, sweatshop | Permalink | Comments Off

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Category Archives: 2017

Stay Woke: Exploring, Unpacking and Finding out Who I am

Ch-Ch-Changes: Exploring Stereotypes in Children’s Media and Literature

Recognition of the Power of Stereotypical Images of African Americans in Media

Deconstructing Yo Fresh

Stereotypical Scientists Unearthed: Will the Real Scientists Please Stand Up!

The Harmful Effect the 2016 Presidential Election Has on Immigrant and English Language Learning Students

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