Annotated Bibliography
Basu, Sarbani. “Alien Earths.” Yale National Institute Seminar. Lecture presented at Yale National Institute Seminar: Alien Earths, July 11-22, 2022. Provided a thorough and engaging base for the content to be used throughout the curriculum unit.
Frank, Adam. Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth. WW Norton & Company, 2018. Emphasizes one’s thinking regarding the possibility of life elsewhere in the solar system, which is the essential question asked in the seminar and curriculum unit.
Johnson, John Asher. How do you find an exoplanet? Vol. 5. Princeton University Press, 2015. Provides in-depth information on exoplanets and their detection.
Niven, Larry. The Draco Tavern. Tor Books, 2007. Several short stories based in the science-fiction genre to help with the development of lessons for students writing within this category.
Roberts, Adam. The history of science fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Provides a rich background on the development of science-fiction storytelling through the years.
Rothery, David A., Iain Gilmour, and Mark A. Sephton, eds. An introduction to astrobiology. Cambridge University Press, 2018. A well-rounded informational guide for the study of astrobiology.
Satria, Muhammad, and An Fauzia Rozani Syafei. "Enhanching Students’ Reading Comprehension of Scientific Text by Using KWL Charts for Senior High School." Journal of English Language Teaching 8, no. 4 (2019): 484-495. Useful in the discussion of teaching strategies.
Sharp, John G., and Paul Kuerbis. "Children's ideas about the solar system and the chaos in learning science." Science Education 90, no. 1 (2006): 124-147. Examines the subject of an area of science not always taught at the elementary level and its benefits.
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