Reality+TV

toc =Real World Examples= Survivor, American Idol, America's Next Top Model, American Inventor, So You Think You Can Dance, HGTV Design Star, Rock Star: INXS,. . . [|Fox TV has over 100 Reality Shows] alone and they're not the only broadcasting company creating these shows. If there's not a reality show in your area, design your own and in all honesty, you can say "Producers are considering creating a new reality show . . . ".

=Performance Task= Your performance task could be an entry to be a participant on the show, a "wrap up" video depicting what happened while on the quest, or a product by each participant or team of participants that is their creation based on one of the challenges.

=Audience= Will judges have the final say? Does America get to vote? Do the reality show participants vote who leaves next? Will your winners be selected by a combination of judge's and audience's votes? How will you determine the "survivor" and what kind of challenges will you set? The GRASPS audience could be producers picking the next set of contestants, fellow survivors voting on who's out, the judges, or Americans texting in their vote.

=Role= Students can take on the role of Biologist who is a fisherman on the Deadliest Catch. Their goal may be to document how many and what kinds of fish/crabs are caught in a season, how much each fisherman will make, what are the daily/nightly working conditions because of the location, and even evaluate safety procedures on the ship. This could be used in engineering, too. They might be ship builders who want to sell as ship to one of the fishermen on this show. What do they have to think about environmentally (use fish oil in the hydrolics because it doesn't freeze). =WebQuest Examples= [|Student Restaurant Rules], Whose Restaurant Will Rule? This WebQuest was posted by Keith Richardson and was created for Information and Communication Technology courses. The task requires students to work in groups made up of a Head Chef, Maitre'd, Finance Manager, and a Public Relations Officer. Students will be using a variety of ICT tools to complete a number of tasks in their groups, and the final products will be examined by the judges of this reality TV show.

[|Scholar Quest: Korea]- This WebQuest, designed by Barbara Mercier, is a spinoff of the Survivor reality show. In this reality show WebQuest, participants must research Korea in order to brief Survivor contestants.

[|The Stone Age WebQuest] In this WebQuest students are asked to take on the role of a employee working for the company that produces the reality show "Survivor". In the WebQuest the producers have decided that the next season of "Survivor" is going to take place not in a tropical paradise, but in the stone age. Students must research the three stone ages ( Paleolithic Era, Mesolithic Era, and Neolithic Era) and provide the producers with an accurate discription of what life was like during each age so they can create the most realistic show possible.

[|Survivor] - In this Webquest students will research geography, culture, environment and history of four different islands. They will then decide, from their research, which is the best one to hold the next season of "Survivor". They must create an immunity challenge based on the history and culture of their chosen island. This proposal is then presented to the game show members (peers).

[|Amazing Race: A Journey Around the World]- This Webquest, designed by Joyce Davis and Karrie Fielding, is a geographically centered spinoff of the reality show The Amazing Race. Students are broken up into teams of four (a geographer, historian, writer, and photographer.) The geographer books flights, the Historian finds landmarks, the writer writes journal entries, and the photographer finds photographs of all locations and landmarks.