PPT-Science: Fiction: Make: Believe

STEAM Schools that participated Balfron High School Balfron Banchory Academy Kincardineshire Clyde Valley High School Wishaw Forrester High School Edinburgh George Heriots School Edinburgh. Week of September 17, 2012. What’s the difference?. Science Fiction. Planets. Alien. Flying, talking animals in space. Light sabers. Space ships coming out of the . TV. robots. Realistic Fiction. Might really happen. The Problem of Knowledge. Epigraph to . The Lathe of Heaven. (1971). Confucius and you are both dreams, and I who say you are dreams am a dream myself. This is a paradox. Tomorrow a wise man may explain it; that tomorrow will not be for ten thousand generations.. Nanoethics Lecture IX. Roderick T. Long. Auburn Dept. of Philosophy. Origin of Science Fiction. As a distinctive literary genre, science fiction originates in the 19. th. century. Why?. Origin of Science Fiction. A . contribution. to . futures. . studies. and . foresight. . practices. ROBERTO PAURA. 1st International Conference on . Anticipation. – . University. of Trento, 7 . November. 2015. Science Fiction . Realistic fiction is made up of stories that could really happen. . The stories are set in modern times.. Examples of Realistic Fiction. Because of Winn Dixie. Crash. Owl Moon. Shiloh. Bridge to . Terabithia. GMOs are created by injecting chemicals into food AFTER it is harvested.. Fiction. GMOs are developed through genetic engineering where scientists identify and insert specific traits into the DNA of the seed before it is ever planted. The plant grows just like conventional (non-GMO) seeds. . Historical fiction is . fiction. set in . the past. . It contains a rich. . mixture. of . fact. and . fiction. . . What is Historical Fiction?. Through novels and short stories, an author may . combine. Mrs. Kinney . Mystery and Suspense. Five Good Reasons to Study Science Fiction. 1. Historical Fiction In historical fantasies and science fiction that involves time travel or alternate dimensions, authors will many times include evidence of deep research about history.  Reading it as part of an exciting story makes for a painless way to learn about major wars or important figures.  One note of caution, though; sometimes it's tough to keep straight what's real and what's fictional! . **FICTION:. Point . of View-. the perspective or vantage point from which the story is told. . 3 main kinds . of POV:. *. First Person: . the narrator is a character in the story. We see the story through his/her eyes. . What does it mean to be . HUMAN?. Defining Science Fiction. 2. Fiction based on imagined future with scientific or technological advances, and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel, and life on other planets.. By Ruben De la cruz. Introduction & motivation. My focus is to study how Science Fiction Film uses dream sequences in order to explore our limeted perception of reality. . Allot of my favorite films showed Phases similar to sleeping that I found to be interesting.. 7.2.2  Reading Non Fiction  . Today we will look at. Reading fiction. Reading nonfiction. . Fiction. What is fiction?. “.  Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.”. Dear Editor,. In the last six or seven publications females have been dragged into the narratives and as a result the stories have become those of love which have no place in science-fiction. Those who read this magazine do so for the science in it or for the good wholesome free-from-women stories which stretch their imaginations.. What is Science Fiction?. A writing style that combines science and fiction . It is driven by the desire to ponder the question “What if…”. It is only limited by our imagination!. “Science Fiction is a story about human beings, with a human problem and human solutions which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”.