Unit Title	Author
2020
Police Free City: Writing Emancipatory Visionary Fiction	Charlie McGeehan
Keywords: fiction, Black Lives Matter, dark fantastic cycle, fantasy, Literature, Reading, social studies, science fiction, the Hunger Games, writing
Dabbling in the Dark: The Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of the Black Speculative Aesthetic	Ryann M. Rouse
Keywords: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Art, English Language Arts, fantasy, race, science fiction
2015
“What If…?”	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: being “the other”, ethics, science fiction, time travel, social commentary
“All of the Same Family”: The Fictional Science that Created America	Benjamin Hover
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
Keywords: African American literature, African American History, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, Scientific Racism, science fiction
Five Earths	Alexander Maxfield Arnosky
Keywords: being “the other”, ethics, science fiction, social commentary, time travel
African-American Narratives Exploratory: Detective Gazes & Futuristic Furies	Bonnee Breese Bentum
Keywords: African American literature, African-American authors, African-American heroes, Barbara Neely, Cosmic Slop, detective fiction, fantasy, Easy Rawlins, Great American Migration, Octavia Butler, race in fiction, Samuel Delany, science fiction, snitches, time travel, UbD, Understanding by Design, Walter Mosley, speculative fiction
Employing Science Fiction to Increase Literacy in the Science Classroom	Cristobal Carambo
Keywords: Science, science fiction, science literacy
A Brave New World?	Nicole Flores
Keywords: literacy, literacy skills, Parable of the Sower, Reading, science fiction, The Giver
2008
Science, Science Fiction and American History	Myrtle Bastien
Keywords: Civil War, fiction, History, ironclad ships, invention, Monitor and Merrimac, naval warfare, secret weapon, science fiction, submarine
Science Through Science Fiction in a Hot Air Balloon	Nancy Baulis
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
Keywords: American History, destruction through the lens of science fiction, Cold War, cold war culture, cold war politics, cold war technology, conformity, control, fear, History, films, novels, science fiction, themes of alientation
Teaching Science with Science Fiction	Stuart Surrey
Keywords: atomic structure, audiovisual, chemical reactions, Chemistry, energy, English, printed, matter, Science, science fiction, flow of energy