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Engineering and pop-culturist instructors team-teach a first-year experience course exploring science through the lenses of history, literature, film, television, and sequential art. Authors present science fiction discourses as unique for synthesizing fields in the humanities and STEM, and they present curricular and co-curricular design strategies for harnessing its potential in the honors classroom. Course objectives and outcomes are presented, with authors noting specific challenges in implementation and emendation. Adaptability and compatibility figure prominently in the successful delivery of the course. A review of literature relating to interdisciplinary education and team-teaching in honors is included.

"The Ballad of Proxima-B" is an educational RPG that promotes learning and collaboration. Students contribute to world-building and game mechanics, creating fictional worlds and characters, including a dystopian Earth, the planet Proxima-B, and alien races. The game incorporates constructivist, constructionist, and Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (DSMRI) principles. The hands-on and collaborative nature facilitates learning, reflection, and a strong classroom community. During gameplay, characters form alliances, encouraging students to reflect on their interactions. Design challenges include workload balance and addressing student anxiety. Game elements emphasize critical thinking and self-reflection, foster collaboration and community, and encourage exploring identity through serious play.

The article relates how the author integrated a radio broadcasting of a science fiction with a study of the planets in an eighth grade science class in Corpus Christi, Texas. Groups of students study the conditions on a planet and design and build a creature that could function on that planet. Students create a visual, such as a poster or transparency, that illustrates the planetary condition. The lesson plan is written in a learning cycle format, an instructional model for conceptual change. History was incorporated in the discussion of the use of radio broadcasts as a means of communications in the early 20th century, art in the construction of the creature from another planet, and English in the students' creation of their own radio broadcast.