Curriculum Units

2009 · 2008 · 2007 · 2006 · 2005 · 2004

2003 · 2002 · 2001 · 2000 · 1999

 

Between 1999 and 2010, Houston Teachers Institute seminar participants produced over 500 curriculum units, each including an academic background paper and lesson plans, for the teachers and students of Houston. In addition to distributing the printed volumes to schools throughout the Houston area, we publish them here so that they may serve as a resource to teachers everywhere.

 

2009

  1. The Middle East: History, Geography, and Culture
  2. This Rough Magic: Teaching Shakespeare's Plays
  3. Health Issues of the 21st Century
  4. Going Green

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2008

  1. What Does It Mean To Be An American?: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States
  2. Comedy in Literature: Greece to Hollywood
  3. Everyday Physics: The Way the World Works
  4. Real Wor(l)d Problems
  5. African History: Ancient Times to the Atlantic Slave Trade Era
  6. Great Films and How They Shaped American Politics
  7. One Cell to Many: The Dynamics of Life

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2007

  1. Playwriting: Crafting and Adapting Plays for School-Aged Children
  2. World Mythologies
  3. Pre-Columbian Mathematics
  4. Popular Music: A Window to Our Students' Cultures
  5. Weather and Climate Change
  6. Wetland Ecology

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2006

  1. Reading the City: Houston in Fiction and Non-Fiction
  2. Ethics: Science, Philosophy, and the Self
  3. Exploring the Literary Landscape
  4. Photography: Steps Toward Visual Literacy
  5. Probability and Statistics in Everyday Life
  6. Creative Writing in the Schools
  7. The World the Immigrants Made
  8. Health Care Law, Policy, and Ethics

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2005

  1. Art and Society: How People and Cultures Define and Value the Arts
  2. Structural Engineering: Buildings and Bridges
  3. Chemistry Through the Ages: From Alchemy to Molecular Design
  4. Living with Geologic Hazards
  5. Health, Illness, and Medicine in Houston: A Cross-Cultural Exploration
  6. Latin America Before the Spanish: Pre-Columbian Art, History, and Culture
  7. The Medieval World: Life, Thought, Action
  8. Perspectives on the Presidency
  9. Shakespeare and Film

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2004

  1. America at War
  2. Beyond Houston: The Literature of Travel and Exploration
  3. Exciting Experiments and the Ethics of Experimentation
  4. Eye on America: Playwrights and American Life and Times
  5. George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and the American Century
  6. Hands-On Geometry: How We Can Use Geometry to See the World Around Us
  7. The New Houston: New Immigrants, New Ethnicities, and New Inter-Group Relations in America's Fourth Largest City
  8. The Process of Justice: How American Courts Work from Top to Bottom
  9. Wild Habitats in the Urban Landscape

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2003

  1. African American Slavery in the New World: A Different Voice
  2. From FDR's Death to the Resignation of Nixon: American from 1945 to 1974
  3. Heroes and Heroines in History and Imaginative Literature
  4. Literature as Healing Balm: Multicultural Women Writers in America
  5. The Science in Science Fiction
  6. "There's No Place Like Home": Architecture, Technology, Art, and the Culture of the American Home, 1850-1970
  7. The Twentieth Century's Most Significant English-Language Novels for Children and Young Adults
  8. Understanding the Wild Things Next Door: The Nature of Houston

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2002

  1. Drinking Water: Finding It, Making It Clean, Using It Wisely
  2. Ethnic Music and Performing Arts in Houston
  3. Houston Architecture: Interpreting the City
  4. New Developments in Understanding the Human Body
  5. Reflections on a Few Good Books
  6. Shakespeare's Characters: The Lighter Side
  7. Sports Autobiographies: Mirrors of American Culture

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2001

  1. Figuring the Odds: Learning to Live with Life's Uncertainties 
  2. Film and American Values Over the Decades
  3. Multicultural Works: The Richness of the Drama of America
  4. Shakespeare Alive!
  5. World Order: What Current Events Tell Us About World Politics

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2000

  1. Adolescence and Alienation: How Books Can Heal the Wounds
  2. Articulating the Creative Experience 
  3. Global Warming, Air Pollution, and Great Storms
  4. Immigration and Latinos in the United States
  5. Critical Analysis of Graeco-Roman Myths and Related Contemporary Issues
  6. Jazz History: The Art and its Social Roots

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1999

  1. Addressing Evil
  2. Technology and the Discipline of Chemistry
  3. Hollywood Distortions of History
  4. The History, Economic Base, and Politics of Houston
  5. Symmetry, Patterns, and Designs
  6. The United States in the 1960's

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