Tues || 9.20: In-class meeting
In the 19th century, everyone is a new learner: scientists unearth fossils, for example, and puzzle over these new phenomena at the same time the general public and children become aware of them.

□ Exploring children's science worlds at home: science fiction, parlor aquariums, pictures of dinosaurs, optical toys and more
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Week 5 Reading
□ Blum, Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014: Bradley; Harman; Johnson; Kolbert; Nobel [take notes on handout sheets -- you will be writing about these essays and what they tell us about science and society today at the end of the semester]

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Online lab session assignment
□ Bring in notes on dinosaurs (one of the three below), space, and science fiction [handout]
□ View Victorian Dinosaurs and Imagine the Vast Reaches of Time for the First Time

□ Read about the Vast Reaches of Space Found by Modern Science for the First Time

Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Peter Parley's Tales About the Sun, Moon and Stars (Philadelphia, 1845)

□ See the Creation of New Worlds of Wonder for the First Time

Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction, 1790-1910
The Moon Hoax of 1835: Great Astronomical Discoveries