Lesson: Philadelphia: A City of Neighborhoods

Source: Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit

Created by: Andrew Adams, Northeast High School

Subjects: American History

Grade Levels: 5-12

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Overview:  Philadelphia is known as a city of neighborhoods. Through independent research, students will engage in a multidisciplinary research assignment to investigate an assigned neighborhood with the goal of teaching their classmates about the rich tapestry of Philadelphia.

Objectives: Students will be able to identify two or more central ideas of a text in order to compose an objective summary via PowerPoint. Students will be able to analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events in order to explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of a text. Students will be able to analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums in order to determine which details are emphasized in each account.

The Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit

This lesson is one of 29 lessons (K-12, all subjects) in the Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit. The goal of the Tool Kit is to help educators and their students develop a transnational analysis in their classrooms by using complex themes of world heritage as a framework to understand global regions across disciplines. These themes include shared architectural, cultural, economic, environmental, political, recreational, religious, and social heritage features.  Real teachers created these lessons and based their work on “best practices” that reflect student collaboration and the broad goals of young people in ways that support care and understanding of others who may be very different in background and history.