This page contains links to all curriculum units written by National Fellows from San José.
2025
Kristina Kirby, Topographical Trilateration and Triangulation
Jiang Wu, Sickness Simulator: Modeling Infectious Disease Through NetLogo
2024
Aaron Cruz, Evolution
Kristina Kirby, Exponential Functions in Evolutionary Disease
Melissa Muntz, Aaron Cruz, Evolution
Kristina Kirby, Exponential Functions in Evolutionary Disease
Melissa Muntz, Extraction of Profits in the Gold Rush: Chinese Miners and California Ecology
2023
Mark Hartung, Environmental Justice and Land Issues of Indigenous People
Kristina Kirby, From English to Algebra: Solving Linear Equations with Word Problems
Melissa Muntz, Clothing and Identity in Early America: Black Women and AmerIndian Men
Danielle Schwartz, Environmental Injustice- A Motive for Social Change in the Americas
2022
Mark Hartung, Imperial Dilemma – Great Society versus Vietnam in the 1960s
Melissa Muntz, Creating Filipino Nationality: Race and Hierarchy in the Context of Empire (1886-1916)
Jhansi Sunkerneni, Climate Change Impact on Agriculture in California
2021
Mark Hartung, Still Separate and Unequal? A Look at School Equality in the American Democracy
Eun Jung (Jenny) Kim, Jim Crow 2.0: Voter Suppression in the 21st Century
Michelle Melby, The Curb Cut Effect: A Local and Global Citizen Bioengineering Challenge
Raven Sisco, Orwell’s Dystopian Inequality: Fact or Fiction?
Alca Usan, Literary and Historical Reading with Langston Hughes
2020
Christopher Fong, UBI (Universal Basic Income): Yay! We Don’t Have to Work Anymore?
Mark Hartung, In Their Own Words? – Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
Eun Jung (Jenny) Kim, What Have You Done For Me Lately; A Tale of Two Parties
Katherine Leung, Mexican-American Labor in California through Art Literacy
Jhansi Sunkerneni, Engineering and Testing a Soil Moisture Sensor
Vanessa Vitug, Viral Viruses: Land-Use Changes and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Lawrence E. Yee, Marine Biotoxins: Invisible, Odorless, and Lethal
2019
Ludy P. Aguada, Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements
Melissa L. Duran, My Future, My Home: Building a Greener House for Tomorrow
Mark A. Hartung, Expanding Rights in American Democracy – Coalitions, Conflict, & Controversy
Anette D. Noroña, Understanding and Challenging the Overcriminalization of Youth of Color
Vanessa Vitug, Demystifying Radiation
2018
Mark Hartung, The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
Sheila Lacanaria, Chemical Warfare and the Rise of Antibiotic Resistance
Sara Mingione, Ancient Law Codes to School Discipline: Is it Justice for All?
Particia Robin Moncrief, Chemical Footprints: Health Threats of Food Toxins?
Charlotte Perry, What Makes a Superhero Super? Putting Scientific Notation in Context
Jennifer L. Vermillion, Juvenile Justice in California: A Rhetorical Approach
Lawrence Elliott Yee, Enumerating Daily Life with Counting Principles, Permutations, and Combinations
2017
Amandeep Khosa, Bringing Indigenous Stories to the Classroom through Art and Comics
Eun Jung Kim, Poetry of Defiance-From the Progressive Era to Today
Michael McClellan, Poetry in Notion: The Hartford Wits and the Emergence of an American Identity
Patricia Moncrief, Water… “Good To The Last Drop”
Rachelle Soroten, Formulating Algebraic Equations from Word Problems
Thanh-Nhu Tran, Best Practices for Food Preservation from Lab to Home Kitchen
Eduardo Valladares, Whose America? Americans in the Americas and Inequality
Jennifer Vermillion, Keeping it Real: Non-Fiction and Identity Formation in Teens
Lawrence Yee, Sequencing Math DNA: Differences, Nth Terms, and Algebraic Sequences
2016
Ludy Aguada, Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
Jennifer Claudio, Silent Witnesses: Hexapod Helpers in Crime Scene Investigation
Mark Holston, Who Am I?: Culturally Relevant Text and American Identity
Amandeep Khosa, Learning Social Skills and Problem Solving with Winnie-the-Pooh
Jade Lee, Decimal Expansion: An Address System for All Numbers
Michael McClellan, Agents of Change: How American Indians Helped Change the World in Only Seven Years
Patricia Moncrief, It Ain’t Easy Being Green
Priya Talreja, Unraveling the Dream World Stereotype of the Arab People
Vanessa Vitug, The Ever Evolving Brain and Neurodegenerative Disease
2015
William Cavada, Silicon Valley’s Otro Lado, Youth Voices Speak About Their Community in Film
Glenn Davis, French History in Your City: San Jose, California – the Pellier Brothers
Luke Holm, Helping Students
Joe Van Sambeek, The Changing Threat of Malaria and the Impact on Global Health
Julie So, Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders
Jennifer Vermillion, Convincing the Masses: Rhetoric in Julius Caesar
Vanessa Vitug, Every Breath You Take – Air Pollution’s Effects on Respiratory Health
Lawrence Yee, Personalizing Problem Solving
2014
Ludy Aguada, Medea: Innocent or Guilty? It’s Just Rhetoric
Marissa Brown, The FAL of Linear Relationships: Simple and Complex Word Problem Scenarios with Two Variables
Elizabeth Daniell, Dulce et Decorum Est: Common Core and The Poetry of War
Karin Foss, The ABCs of Elementary Reading and Writing Poetry with Animals
Joe Lovato, The Politics of Rhetoric: William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Leadership Speeches of World War II
Julie So, Immigration and Migration: My Family and My Community
Jennifer Vermillion, Civil Disobedience in Words and Images
Vanessa Vitug, It’ll Make Your Skin Crawl – Microbes and Skin Physiology
2013
Katie Adams, Picture-Tellers: How to “Write” a Story, the Kindergarten Way
Ludy Aguada, Moving Beyond “Huh?”: Ambiguity in Heart of Darkness
Elizabeth Daniell, The Tangled Web of Richard III: Shakespeare and the Art of Biography
Leilani Esguerra, Epigraph-allacy: Using Epigraphs to Elicit Student Interpretations
Jinsue Hafalia, A Chemistry Perspective: Gasoline or Biodiesel?
Julie So, Weather and Building Knowledge
Vanessa Vitug, DNA in Forensic Science: genetic engineering applications in forensics
2012
Brian Barrientez, Solar VS Fossil Fuel Generated Electricity: Can Physics Determine Which is Best For You and Your School?
Elisha Burns, George Washington, Benito Juarez, and Simon Bolivar: an in-depth look into why we remember them.
Harriet Garcia, Empathy Through The Eyes of A Creature: A Journey Into Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Louise Krasnow, For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws
Aimee MacSween, A, C, E Detective: Calculating Percentages
Ann Shioji, Processed Food for Thought: Exploring Chemical Additives in Processed Foods
Vanessa Vitug, Antibacterial Gone Viral – Understanding Immune Response in Bacterial and Viral Infectious Diseases
2011
Lori Hiura, You’ll Stumble in My Footsteps: Character Traits, Choices, and Outcomes in Literature
Paul Landshof, The American Sonnet: Barometer of Change in American History
Aimee MacSween, Strong Foundations = Success In Equations
Richard Taylor, Dimensional Analysis: A Mathematics Tool to Dissect the Circulatory System
Vanessa Vitug, Under Pressure! The Circulatory System and Hypertension
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