Lesson: Yo, What Else Youse Got? The Case for Making Philadelphia a True World Heritage City

Source: Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit

Created by: Susan Baraldi, Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts

Subjects: American History

Grade Levels: 10

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Overview: This lesson plan covers students’ deliberations over Philadelphia sites worthy of World Heritage status and students’ conclusions about Philadelphia as a World Heritage City. The lesson requires that students promote Philadelphia by serving on committees to choose sites and overseeing them.

Objectives: Students will understand the importance of world heritage. They will learn to express a stronger sense of belonging and pride concerning Philadelphia’s heritage. Groups of students will be involved in the conservation of the sites they recognize as Philadelphia treasure.

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.