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University of Minnesota

Altered Reality

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Fascinate young life scientists by showing them how their brain learns. By using prism goggles while attempting to toss bean bags at a target, lab partners change their outlook on the world around them, producing amusing results....
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Virtual Reality Construction Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners utilize the technology of virtual reality in order to perform a construction project. The construction has to do with the making of a reality scene using special Apple Virtual Reality software.
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Your Politician: Myth vs. Reality

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars adopt a public official, research how they spend their time, and define the actual duties associated with the job. They sort perceptions about the job into myths and realities, and analyze political cartoons involving...
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Role Models, Fantasy vs. Reality

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the qualities of a hero. Through a class discussion, they compare and contrast a reality hero to a fantasy super hero. Students watch television commercials and identify the influences in them. They determine positive...
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Reality TV

For Students 7th - 9th
In this reality television worksheet, students read information about reality television. Students then answer a 10 question online quiz, selecting from multiple choice suggestions for each fill-in-the-blank statement.
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Center for History Education

Transforming the West: Did the Reality Match the Expectations for Kansas Homesteaders?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
They expected good soil and hearty crops ... but they found buffalo chips and grasshopper plagues. Using an advertisement encouraging famers to go west, budding historians examine primary sources including letters, photographs, and...
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Anti-Defamation League

When Perception and Reality Collide: Implicit Bias and Race

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The big idea in this lesson is that implicit bias often clouds perceptions. High schoolers watch a short video, read research articles, and engage in discussions about implicit bias and how these biases lead to stereotyping. They craft...
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Get Real!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners reach a consensus as to what makes a good reality-based TV show. They create their own scenarios for a new such show, and critique it, based on the criteria the class establishes.
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Watch and Learn

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore a particular problem with the development of new television shows and create original reality-based educational programming.
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Writing Prompts- Comparing Reality with What is Presented on Television

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this writing prompt worksheet, young scholars write a passage the proves that they can distinguish the difference between what happens on television with what happens in reality.
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"Reality Math: Fact or Fiction"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the use of math in everyday life. They investigate several occupations and pay scales. They complete spreadsheets that show how monthly bills can be organized using technology. They use word processing software to...
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Curated OER

Myths and Reality of Old Age

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a glossary of terms to learn about mature adults. They examine common stereotypes in aging. They create awareness of language that contributes to age discrimination and stereotyping. They discuss the social, psychological,...
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Eight Websites to Educate High Schoolers About College

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High school students need a dose of reality about higher education choices.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

From Courage to Freedom: The Reality behind the Song

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars study how Frederick Douglass uses language to describe a realistic picture of slavery in his writings which are primary source documents. They examine his use of word choice, imagery, irony, and rhetorical appeals and use...
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Modeling Reality

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners identify what a role model is and what characteristics such a person should possess. They discuss a new trend in character role model figurines, which some believe perpetuate racial and ethnic stereotypes.
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Facing Reality

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore social issues that are meaningful to them and create documentaries in which they share their information, thoughts and impressions.
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Virtual Realities of War

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students outline the major events, mat??riel, and setting of a war or conflict. They develop a computer game narrative that draws on these historically accurate details.
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Reality Film

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students propose and create documentary films depicting a slice of "ordinary" life that reveals something unique or surprising about its subject. They, in groups, make films and present them to the school.
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Curated OER

Diversity in Media: Looking Critically at What We See

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
This learning experience fosters awareness of representations we see, and don't see, in the media. Learners list TV programs, games, and films they enjoy, identify characters' ethnic, religious, (dis)ability, and sexual orientation...
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Autism - What Is It?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the symptoms of autism spectrum disorders, and compare expected child development with development that may indicate a diagnosis of these disorders. The final project for the lesson plan is the creation of...
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Lesson: Mathias Poledna: Crystal Palace

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Film analysis takes critical thinking, connections, and context. Upper graders look at the film installation, Crystal Palace in terms of the film makers choices, presentation, and perspective of truth. After an analytical discussion of...
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Lesson: Paul Chan: 1st Light and 5th Light

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Paul Chan's latest exhibit includes seven manifestations of light. Today, kids analyze the pieces 1st Light  and 5th Light. They consider the concept of opposed or dualistic realities found in literature, society, and Chan's work. They...
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Google

Interland

For Students Pre-K - 8th
"Be Internet Awesome" is the motto in a super cool digital citizenship interactive created by Google. Interland is made up of four lands that explore the importance of digital safety and helps young Internet users to be alert, strong,...
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Character Lab

WOOP for Classrooms: Self-Control

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Achieving your goals can be as easy as Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, and Plan! Show your class how to turn their personal and academic desires into reality using a time-proven process. The resource focuses on self control and guides users...

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