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In this activity, students will compare their lives on Earth with a virtual experience on Mars. They will begin by using their five senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste) to illustrate and describe various aspects of their lives on Earth. After similarly describing their virtual time on Mars, they will consider the biggest similarities and differences between their “time” on the two planets. They will then create a newspaper article or news report script that strives to help their audience understand what life is like in this deep-space colony.

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Earth vs. Mars


What is not imagined is not attempted. - Octavia E. Butler


Overall, this course is a primer for the Kinfolk app, which explores the intersections between art, history, and social justice through diverse perspectives. Study the ways in which Black folks have tapped into the Black Radical Imagination as a revolutionary process of thinking, creating, and expressing to articulate a vision for a different world. By delving into the past, we hope that our efforts can energize further contemplation and action for those, like us, who are brave enough to speculate and manifest a more radical future.

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Unit 1: Afrofuturism, Black Futures + Enclaves


Kinfolk: The Black Radical Imagination

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Put creativity front and center with GRX Arts, Beats and Tech. This collaborative experience, available on desktop and in virtual reality, adds STEAM-aligned fun to the classroom by offering students the chance to build unique music tracks with beats, instruments and spoken word, while also exploring scientific concepts. 

GRX Arts, Beats and Tech App

Rap Odyssey: Explore the World of Hip-Hop in Augmented Reality!&nbsp;Dive into the vibrant universe of rap music with Rap Odyssey! This immersive AR app invites you to tap on hotspots around the globe, unlocking stories, sounds, and cultural influences from iconic artists. Discover how different cities, neighborhoods, and regions shape the beats and lyrics you love. Whether you’re a die-hard fan or a curious newcomer, Rap Odyssey takes you on a journey through the heart of hip-hop, blending music, culture, and geography like never before. Start your adventure today and see the world through the eyes of your favorite artists!

Rap Odyssey

Unlock new potential paths to the future with Career Day, an Augmented Reality app that invites accomplished professionals into the classroom. Students use their voice to navigate the experience and converse with interactive, digital holograms from a variety of fields. This unique interview experience will open your students’ minds to what’s possible, and potentially inspire them to pursue a career they once thought out of reach!


Career Day

Share your world with CocoCast, the augmented reality experience that encourages teaching, listening, learning and collaboration. Using the app, educators and students can turn real-life objects into 3D models. Those models can then be shared along with an audio “cast” that explains what they’ve captured. This interactive “show and tell” experience gives educators and students a chance to engage in a variety of subjects including math, physics, history and biology, all while learning the basics of 3D modeling&nbsp;

CocoCast

Reimagine the way we address today’s most pressing environmental issues with Arcadia Earth. This augmented reality experience invites students to explore our planet’s plight, journeying across immersive landscapes seemingly plucked from a next-gen art exhibit. By focusing on individual empowerment, the experience provides educational commentary on the future of our planet, and shares actionable suggestions to inspire students to become part of the solution.

Arcadia Earth

Send your students to outer space with Visceral Science using the formation of stars and planets to immerse them in the scientific concepts of force and motion, energy conservation, and thermonuclear reactions. Experience supernovae, create black holes and neutron stars, collapse red giants, launch planets and play with their orbits, and do all of this in collaboration with other online players. Working in teams, your students will learn essential astronomy and physics lessons in a fully immersive environment, sparking more curiosity and engagement than through traditional instruction.&nbsp;The multiplayer experience is designed for virtual reality headsets - both PC VR and standalone VR - as well as for mobile devices and browsers. With VR players present as avatars and mobile/web players present as drones, the collaboration scenarios for your class are nearly limitless. The application requires the creation of an account on Abelana.

Visceral Science: Evolution of Stars

Become a WiFi wizard with 5G Covet - SNR House , part of the larger 5G Covet educational suite of K-12 STEM labs scheduled to launch in the future. In this experience, students use Virtual Reality to step inside a home and use their math and science skills to investigate signal strength and distance through virtual experimentation. Their problem-solving abilities will also be put to the test as they identify communication obstacles, explore the concept of signal-to-noise ratio, and solve additional puzzles.Available On: &nbsp;Meta, Pico, and HTC.

5G Covet - SNR House

Transform your classroom into an underwater education center with Aurelia, the Augmented Reality app that teaches students about biology, chemistry and the environment. Once inside the experience, students can explore aquatic ecosystems and create their own fish to add to the environments. In doing so, they’ll employ design thinking, creativity, and inclusive community building.&nbsp;To best guide your students in the classroom, please be sure to view the Onboarding Document below, and download the Aurelia Teacher's app for yourself:&nbsp;Download Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aurelia-ar/id6443941049&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Aurelia

Experiment with emerging technology through Verizon Innovative Learning Lab Online, an augmented reality  experience rooted in STEM principles, with a focus on environmental sustainability. Using the app, students can  learn about 3D printing, train satellites through artificial intelligence and build technological literacy by  programming a self-driving rover with block coding.  

Verizon Innovative Learning Lab: Emerging Technologies 

NEAR THE SPEED OF LIGHT is the next installment in the&nbsp;Visceral Science&nbsp;series, designed and created by the World Science Festival. The experience is an asymmetric crossplay where a team of mobile players competes against outsized opponents in virtual reality. This VR+mobile application combines academic concepts with eSports potential. On one side, a class-size team of mobile players flies a swarm of shuttles at different fractions of the speed of light, experiencing a wide range of relativistic effects. On the other side, one or two VR opponents aim to stop mobile players from achieving&nbsp;their goal of collecting all the stars from the playfield. The application helps students to witness a range of relativistic&nbsp;phenomena such as the Relativistic Doppler Effect, the Headlight Effect, Lorentz Contraction, and the Relativity of Simultaneity. In addition to mobile devices, the experience can also be played using its browser version.

Visceral Science: Near the Speed of Light

GRAVITY SIMULATOR is a new virtual reality experience in the Visceral Science series by the World Science Festival. Inspired by the first observation of gravitational waves made by the LIGO observatory, in this experience students create their own systems of stars, planets, moons, and black holes, observing how they interact and collide. Students will discover the phenomena of “stellar vampirism” and gravitational waves, with spacetime distortions demonstrated in 3D. Students can peer inside planets and other objects, learning about their compositions, as well as the mechanics of volcanism and plate tectonics.&nbsp;

Visceral Science: Gravity Simulator

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Travel back in time and hear the untold stories of musicians with UNSUNG. This multiplayer learning experience introduces students to singers of color from history, each who rose above societal challenges to make their voice heard. Students will explore the past, talk with people from those eras, share the facts they’ve learned, and preserve history. 

UNSUNG

This award-winning app offers engaging, bite-sized experiences that promote deep, conceptual learning. It leverages augmented reality to gamify challenging, abstract, or "routine" concepts through a familiar Observe, Explore, and Evaluate approach. A growing library of activities cover grades 3-12 Math, Science, and Social Studies, including Spanish versions in app, web versions at mharonline.com, and options for group learning. See how McGraw Hill AR can transform traditional classroom lessons into interactive experiences that motivate students to learn through play.

McGraw Hill AR

Interact and collaborate with &nbsp;cellular modules in Looking Inside Cells . Working in groups of 2-4, students will put on Virtual Reality headsets and participate in simulations that include building cells from scratch, specializing those cells for unique roles in organisms, and advancing a cell through mitosis. These simulations can help increase your students’ interest in biology while improving their understanding and retention of organelles and their relationships.&nbsp;Now available on:PICO StoreVIVEPORT Store

Looking Inside: Cells

Take the TimePod on a journey across time and space to Mars in 2024 to help solve a series of crises as Earth begins its full colonization of the red planet. You will be helped along by ADA (Autonomous Digital Assistant), who has traveled with the TimePod across millennia. As you encounter challenges, invite your friends to help you and even remotely control the TimePod wherever they are. Episode 1-Intro Sequence will get you familiarized with the TimePod, TimeFrames and ADA, as you fix the TimePod and arrive on Mars!  In Episode 2-Water students will work to discover water on the planet.  Students will work through questions to help them think through how to best utilize and secure water on Mars.
 
TimePod Adventures is an Augmented Reality app with multiplayer elements allowing multiple users to take part wherever they are through a browser. 

TimePod Adventures

Explore in augmented reality a variety of STEM careers and experiences through three industry simulations centered around Cybersecurity, Esports, and multi-disciplinary Design Thinking.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the Cybersecurity experience, you’ll help Legend Games secure its network from external threats. In the Esports experience, you’ll explore a variety of career pathways that support this rapidly growing industry. And finally in the Design Thinking experience, you’ll learn, explore, and apply the fundamentals of the design process to help launch the latest video game title from Legend Games.&nbsp;Optimized for smartphones.

Verizon Innovative Learning Lab: Career Pathways

Grab your tools and walkie-talkies! Get ready to dig up dinosaur bones in this augmented reality learning experience. Verizon Innovative Learning Lab: Paleontology allows you to learn about the required steps to successfully uncover rare fossils from the Earth. Using the tools provided, you can dig, chisel, brush and extract fossils from a dig site individually or with your classmates. Finally, you'll assemble your discovered fossils to reveal the skeleton of a long-lost dinosaur.Optimized for smartphones.

Verizon Innovative Learning Lab: Paleontology

The World War I Memorial "Virtual Explorer"&nbsp;The "Virtual Explorer" and the companion "Visitor Guide" augmented reality apps provide an interactive and engaging way to teach and learn about World War I.The content was developed by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Doughboy Foundation during the centennial of WWI, culminating with the building of a new National WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C.The leading WWI experts and historians were engaged to provide an in-depth and refreshed perspective on what was arguably one of the most consequential and transformative period in American history, but oddly a subject that had fallen into obscurity over the intervening century.

The WWI Memorial "Virtual Explorer"

The vast majority of monuments and historical narratives in the U.S. uplift a eurocentric version of history. The Kinfolk mobile app serves as an interactive archive for undertold historical narratives. It features a catalog of augmented reality experiences depicting important moments from Black and Brown history. Teachers can use Kinfolk to bring Black and Brown history to life in an engaging way that allows students to dive deep into the histories.&nbsp;

Kinfolk

Tile Coding is a virtual space where young coders can experiment and solve problems to acquire algorithmic thinking and coding skills. Coding, while being among the most important &nbsp;literacies in modern society, is often regarded as an arduous process as well as a real learning challenge for younger students. The virtual space of Tile Coding offers an alternative approach to teaching and learning algorithmic thinking and coding while aiming to make the subject appealing to younger students. The virtual lab is &nbsp;ideal for Problem-Based Learning (PBL) scenarios where students actively collaborate and seek solutions to open-ended problem situations.

5G Covet-Tile Coding

Welcome to “How to Use Augmented Reality,” your gateway to the captivating realm of web-based AR. This interactive experience is tailor-made for beginners, introducing new users to the essential concepts that underpin this exciting technology.This experience is designed to be user-friendly, offering step-by-step guidance that empowers users to learn by doing. There’s no need to be a tech expert – we’ll guide you through each process in an interactive and engaging way. This experience will equip you with the confidence and skills needed to dive into this innovative technology and unlock a new dimension of interaction and imagination.

How To Use Augmented Reality (AR)

Welcome to Verizon Innovative Learning Lab: STEM Workshop! Explore three captivating STEM experiences:&nbsp;Engineering: Rollercoaster: Delve into the world of engineering as you design thrilling rollercoasters. Grasp the fundamentals of Newton's laws, solve amusement park challenges, and share your coaster creations with others.&nbsp;Aviation: Drones: Take flight on an exciting journey into aviation. Build your own drone and learn the intricacies of lift and thrust. Then, bring your drone to life in augmented reality and soar through the real world.&nbsp;Meteorology: Water Cycle: Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of meteorology and the water cycle. Interact with a micro-environment and witness water's incredible journey on Earth. Gain a deep appreciation for nature's hydrological processes through exploration and experimentation.

Verizon Innovative Learning Lab: STEM Workshop

Welcome to Verizon Innovative Learning Lab: STEM Exploration! Work alongside a diverse group of scientists, across three unique experiences, to solve the challenge of an environmental disaster.&nbsp;Oceanography: &nbsp;Explore Ocean currents and their impact on the globe. Armed with this knowledge, tackle the challenge of containing an oil spill in a fun, interactive game.&nbsp;&nbsp;Microbiology: &nbsp;Learn about microbes and the world of microorganisms. Explore an electron microscope, immerse yourself in an underwater exploration environment and help remove oil using microbes and bio remediation.&nbsp;&nbsp;Chemistry: &nbsp;Discover the fundamentals of chemistry as you build and explore chemical elements using virtual atoms. Construct elements on the periodic table, visualize atomic structures, and create alternative solutions for environmental toxin removal.

Verizon Innovative Learning Lab STEM Exploration

BUILD AND INHABIT 3D WORLDS WITH A HUGE LIBRARY OF MODELSOpen students' minds by providing them with the tools to create their own immersive journey!Sandbox is a powerful 3D environment-building tool, designed to amplify learning on any topic across time and space. Choose from a library of hundreds of 3D models such as ancient Greece, the Mars rover, the depths of the ocean or cultural celebrations such as Lunar New Year.

Sandbox AR

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