Video Projects for the Classroom:

Reality TV: List of Tasks

  June, 2008

Try to buy something at the bookstore with a foreign currency

100

Find a twin for every member of the team

       Bonus for best look-alike

75

100

Ask students what they want to do with their life

35

Impersonate your favorite rock star

50

Perform as a barbershop quartet with choreography

50

Ask non-team members to name the 13 original colonies, and the one they would vote off the island

50

30

Change clothes with other team members

30

Breakdance on a cardboard box in public

     Bonus for each move

     Bonus for getting a stranger to join in

175

75

50

Point at nothing and get passerby to look at it

50

Video an animal

     Bonus for finding more than three species

30

75

Get someone on the team to sing and act out the teapot song

50

Get someone on the team to sing and dance the Little Birdie Dance

75

Comment on a student’s behavior as if narrating a nature program

75

Travel the halls as if you were the Crocodile Hunter in the wild

75

Create an obstacle on the sidewalk and then act as Olympic judges, rating how well passerby navigate it

40

Take a nap in an inappropriate location

35

Re-enact the “King of the World” scene from the movie Titanic

30

Get in a car “Dukes of Hazzard” style

30

Film an opposing team member standing still for more than 10 seconds

50

 

In a public area, give your best impersonation of a pro wrestler’s pre-fight interview

50

 

Interview people coming out of a restroom

50

Capture a team member acting like a duck

5/per

Play an air badminton game in public

40

Video team members playing leap frog

15

Video a team member climbing a tree

15

Scoring a goal and doing your best end-zone dance

75

Video a team member dunking a basketball

75

Serenade the principal

75

Recite a poem publicly

      Bonus if you make up the poem and strangers stop to listen

 

50

50

Have every member of the team hop a fence

35

Come up with a rock-paper-scissors game for your whole team and demonstrate how it works

50

Capture team members lovingly running toward each other across a field

50

Ride in the school maintenance cart

125

Have a formal dinner in the cafeteria

      Bonus for candles, etc

75

50

Enact a dramatic finish to running a race between team members

50