Unit Title	Author
2015
“What If…?”	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: ethics, science fiction, social commentary, time travel, being “the other”
“All of the Same Family”: The Fictional Science that Created America	Benjamin Hover
Keywords: Enlightenment, science fiction, Kindred, Human Experimentation, African American History, African American literature, Scientific Racism
Un-Zombied and Magically Black: A Kaleidoscope of the African-American’s Supernatural World	Wendi Mungai Umoren
Keywords: Enlightenment, science fiction, Kindred, Human Experimentation, Scientific Racism, African American History, African American literature
Five Earths	Alexander Maxfield Arnosky
Keywords: ethics, science fiction, social commentary, time travel, being “the other”
African-American Narratives Exploratory: Detective Gazes & Futuristic Furies	Bonnee Breese Bentum
Keywords: Great American Migration, fantasy, science fiction, Easy Rawlins, detective fiction, Cosmic Slop, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, race in fiction, snitches, speculative fiction, time travel, UbD, Understanding by Design, Walter Mosley, Barbara Neely, African-American heroes, African-American authors, African American literature
Employing Science Fiction to Increase Literacy in the Science Classro	Cristobal Carambo
Keywords: Science, science literacy, science fiction
A Brave New World?	Nicole Flores
Keywords: Reading, Parable of the Sower, literacy skills, literacy, The Giver, science fiction
2008
Science, Science Fiction and American History	Myrtle Bastien
Keywords: science fiction, fiction, History, naval warfare, Monitor and Merrimac, ironclad ships, invention, secret weapon, submarine, Civil War
Science Through Science Fiction in a Hot Air Balloon	Nancy Baulis
Keywords: fantasy, science fiction, Dirigibles, Hindenburg, Philadelphia Zoo, Math, Science, hot air balloon, social studies, weather, Wizard of Oz, writing, aeronautics, air machines
Science Fiction of the Fifties: Reflections of Cold War Themes	Steven Shust
Keywords: films, fear, science fiction, destruction through the lens of science fiction, control, conformity, cold war politics, novels, History, cold war technology, cold war culture, themes of alientation, Cold War, American History
Teaching Science with Science Fiction	Stuart Surrey
Keywords: printed, flow of energy, English, science fiction, energy, Science, matter, Chemistry, chemical reactions, audiovisual, atomic structure