VR Maze is a puzzle based game in which virtual reality is perfect to have a go at. You can experience colourful visuals in 3D whilst playing this virtual maze game without a controller. Challenge yourself by trying to direct the ball out of more than 50 different VR labyrinths. The game gets progressively harder after the initial levels. For use with mobile headset viewers.
Curricular Connections
• Math- Use logic and patterns to solve puzzles and play games • Use reasoning and logic to explore, analyze, and apply mathematical ideas
The bestselling horror series comes to mobile and virtual reality and features Goosebumps most frightening monsters, including Slappy the Dummy, evil gnomes, werewolves, and more. The premise is to survive a night in R.L. Stine’s house – a living trap filled with his most famous monsters? Mystery, madness, and frightening moments await you in Storyplay! This VR app allows for those who have read the Goosebumps novels to add a rich immersive experience to their reading. For use with mobile VR headsets.
Curricular Connections
This could be used to introduce students to the book series, during library time (as there is reading involved throughout), or as a conclusion to a book study for example.
Language Arts- Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy. (Grades 4-9)
Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how languagen works. (Grades 3-5)
Please note this game is a bit scary for younger students and usability for younger students is dependent on their reading level.
Gameplay Length
20 minutes
Player Comfort Level
Comfortable/Moderate due to potentially frightening content involving monsters and creatures.
Visit the world´s most famous citadel, the Acropolis of Athens, built in Ancient Greece in the 5th century BC. Explore history with interactive 3D scenes. Learn about historical sites, great works of architecture or events of the past in this game. The interactive scenes can be rotated, enlarged or viewed from pre-set angles. Some of the 3D scenes contain a walk mode, enabling you to explore the scene yourself. Most of the 3D scenes include narrations and built-in animations. They also contain captions, entertaining animated quizzes and other visual elements. The 3D scenes are also available in several languages, which also offers an opportunity to learn and practice foreign languages. For use with mobile headset viewers.
Curricular Connections
• Social Studies- Religious and cultural practices that emerged during this period have endured and continue to influence people.
• Exploration, expansion, and colonization had varying consequences for different groups.
• Languages- Listening and viewing with intent helps us begin to understand different languages
Gameplay Length
5-15 minutes, depending if you are just viewing the ancient environment or if you intend on doing some of the quizzes and remaining immersed for longer.
Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass is the first VR experience presented to the public by the Louvre Museum and is conceived as part of the Museum’s seminal Leonardo da Vinci exhibition which commemorates the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death in France. Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass reveals the latest scientific research on da Vinci’s artistic innovation and his painting techniques and processes through exceptional visualization in virtual reality, bringing them to life.
Curricular Connections
The arts provide opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures.
Growth as an artist is dependent on perseverance, resilience, refinement, and reflection.
Set out on the immersive virtual adventure to discovery of depths of galaxy and have a blissful full dive VR experience of floating in the space with this VR app considered one of the best adventure apps among VR games without controller.
VR Space provides a great introduction into exploring the topic of space with stunning views of space to explore with HD graphics of the sun star. For use with mobile headsets such as the Google Cardboard headset.
Curricular Connections
Science-Earth/Space-The solar system is part of the Milky Way, which is one of billions of galaxies.
The formation of the universe can be explained by the big bang theory.
Gameplay Length
10 minutes to introduce topic of space or to conclude unit on space.
A Clever Label is a documentary experience that enables audiences to unearth hidden connections between anti-equality lobbyists, senior Australian politicians and international organizations. Unlike a traditional documentary with a fixed narrative and one-way communication, Documentary host Michela Ledwidge invites audiences to independently follow threads that intrigue them to form their own conclusions.
At the height of the Safe Schools debate in 2016 queer trans woman Michela Ledwidge walked past a rally at Town Hall where 15-year old children spoke of the suicide of one of their classmates. This is the week when Australian politicians used parliamentary privilege to equate homosexuality with paedophilia. Michela felt shame at her own ignorance on the debate and wondered why the Australian religious right had such a hold over a supposedly secular society like Australia. She set out to explore the links between anti-LGBTQI lobbyists, senior Australian politicians and international organisations based in the US. Her idea – use the new medium of Virtual Reality to create a space in where complex issues could be explored and digested. In the process she shines a spotlight on decades of rarely reported research that documents the rise of the Australian religious right and on key questions that cut to the heart of our democracy. Who supports these groups? What motivates our politicians? How do echo chambers impact our ability to understand complex issues? Using the Australian Christian Lobby as a starting point, Michela literally “plays” with the data, exploring the literal and figurative threads of financial and political influence on LGBTQI politics as she explores the hidden sources and motivations behind anti-equality messaging. A Clever Label asks the questions and challenges the audience to seek out their own conclusions on some of Australia’s most polarizing issues.
Curricular Connections
Health and Physical Education and Social Studies
We experience many changes in our lives that influence how we see ourselves and others.
Learning about similarities and differences in individuals and groups influences community health.
Greenland Melting is a virtual reality experience that introduces and brings educational awareness to the effects that the warming waters of the ocean have on glaciers, specifically in Greenland. Through this experience you follow two NASA scientists who explain the process of studying why the glaciers in Greenland are melting. On the heels of the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, Greenland Melting provides timely and much needed information on the subject of climate change. Gain access to NASA scientists as they conduct groundbreaking research into a transforming landscape with ramifications for the entire world.
Using cutting-edge technology to create a state-of-the-art immersive piece, Greenland Melting allows viewers to experience being in Greenland – standing in the water in front of a glacier, flying at low altitudes over some of the world’s most stunning scenery, and diving beneath the ocean’s surface to see what NASA’s studies are revealing about how deep Greenland’s fjords go – and how quickly warm ocean water is melting them.
Project Syria is an immersive journalism piece which focuses on the plight of children during the civil war. Nearly one half of Syria’s 23 million people have been displaced in its civil war and no group has been as severely affected as children. Children make up more than half of the three million refugees living in camps or makeshift housing and some news reports indicate that children are actually being specifically targeted in the violence.
Curricular Connections
Global and regional conflicts have been a powerful force in shaping our contemporary world and identities.
Humanity: First Woman in Space transports you into the body of the first woman to go into space. View the world through the eyes of Astronaut Turova as she navigates through the male dominated world of astronaut training. Experience how it feels when most people around you don’t believe in you.
Curricular Connections
Social Equality: Examining gender bias in male dominated careers
This immersive journey takes you deep into the heart of Parliament, where an iconic building surges to life with magic realism. Animals spring from stone walls. Empty rooms echo with voices of the past. And figures who have helped shape Canada return to take their place in the halls of democracy.
