Imagination is as important to science as it is to art forms such as pottery, painting and writing novels. Reading as well as writing science fiction can be a powerful medium for many students in your science class. Books by Robert Heinlein, Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury can provide the stimulus needed for students to write their own science fiction. I recommend that you read passages from your favorite authors and use it as a vehicle for brainstorming about imagination and science.
An excellent resource for the science classroom in this regard is Fantastic Reading by Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg and David Clark Yeager published by ScottForesman. It is an activity book providing high-interest science fiction and fantasy stories along with vocabulary, writing, reading comprehension and study skill activities.
Writing science fiction brings students into the world of invention and creativity. Students can explore the limits of their own creativity by writing imaginative stories about the future, or the past by attempting to integrate science concepts into the story line. What kind of thinking might be activated if students were to write stories that involved:
Two other resources that are helpful in the science fiction and creative writing area include: