Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: Aliens and Others: African Americans [Re]Writing Generic Fiction
“What If…?”	Joyce Arnosky	2015
Keywords: being “the other”, ethics, science fiction, social commentary, time travel
“All of the Same Family”: The Fictional Science that Created America	Benjamin Hover	2015
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism
Un-Zombied and Magically Black: A Kaleidoscope of the African-American’s Supernatural World	Wendi Mungai Umoren	2015
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism
African-American Narratives Exploratory: Detective Gazes & Futuristic Furies	Bonnee Breese Bentum	2015
Keywords: African American literature, African-American authors, African-American heroes, Barbara Neely, Cosmic Slop, detective fiction, Easy Rawlins, fantasy, Great American Migration, Octavia Butler, race in fiction, Samuel Delany, science fiction, snitches, speculative fiction, time travel, UbD, Understanding by Design, Walter Mosley
Employing Science Fiction to Increase Literacy in the Science Classroom	Cristobal Carambo	2015
Keywords: Science, science fiction, science literacy
A Brave New World?	Nicole Flores	2015
Keywords: literacy, literacy skills, Parable of the Sower, Reading, science fiction, The Giver
Seminar: Penn Laboratory on Energy, Sustainability and Environment
Five Earths	Alexander Maxfield Arnosky	2015
Keywords: being “the other”, ethics, science fiction, social commentary, time travel
Seminar: Planning for a Sustainable, Environmentally Just, and Climate-Ready Philadelphia
Climate Justice and Jurassic Park	Renae Curless	2023
Keywords: climate change, climate justice, ELA, English, environmentalism, High School, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, science fiction
Seminar: Teaching Science with Science Fiction
Science, Science Fiction and American History	Myrtle Bastien	2008
Keywords: Civil War, fiction, History, invention, ironclad ships, Monitor and Merrimac, naval warfare, science fiction, secret weapon, submarine
Science Through Science Fiction in a Hot Air Balloon	Nancy Baulis	2008
Keywords: aeronautics, air machines, Dirigibles, fantasy, Hindenburg, hot air balloon, Math, Philadelphia Zoo, Science, science fiction, social studies, weather, Wizard of Oz, writing
Science Fiction of the Fifties: Reflections of Cold War Themes	Steven Shust	2008
Keywords: American History, Cold War, cold war culture, cold war politics, cold war technology, conformity, control, destruction through the lens of science fiction, fear, films, History, novels, science fiction, themes of alientation
Teaching Science with Science Fiction	Stuart Surrey	2008
Keywords: atomic structure, audiovisual, chemical reactions, Chemistry, energy, English, flow of energy, matter, printed, Science, science fiction
Seminar: The Dark Fantastic: Reading Science Fiction, Fantasy and Comics to Change the World
Police Free City: Writing Emancipatory Visionary Fiction	Charlie McGeehan	2020
Keywords: Black Lives Matter, dark fantastic cycle, fantasy, fiction, Literature, Reading, science fiction, social studies, the Hunger Games, writing
Dabbling in the Dark: The Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of the Black Speculative Aesthetic	Ryann M. Rouse	2020
Keywords: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Art, English Language Arts, fantasy, race, science fiction