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Has anyone done an unboxing video project?

Andrea Wong

Unboxing videos still seem to be a pretty big trend on social media and I finally decided to give it a shot as a class project. I wish I could give credit to whoever thought of this idea, but I heard about it from a teacher friend, who got the idea from another teacher friend, and…you get the idea. 

I would like to have students work in groups on this project and I am hoping to assign each group one of the Levers of Climate Action to focus on so we get different perspectives throughout the videos. Students would have to:

  • Come up with a main focus for the box (maybe one of the Grand Challenges?)
  • Decide who would be sending and who would be receiving/opening the box
  • Come up with items for the box; these don’t have to be actual items though. They can be images or other items representing what students would put in if they could.
  • Students will have to be deliberate in choosing what kind of box to put their items in, any music they might want to play, if/what type of packaging is inside, if a note is included, etc.
  • Students will have to react to each of the items they unbox and explain what they like about them or if anything is missing/if more needs to be done.

I’m still working out all the details but my students are excited about the project and I am too!

Has anyone done a project like this before? Any advice for me?

  • I have not done anything like this but you just gave me an idea for my future classes! I'm thinking maybe I could incorporate a unboxing video into the recipe for revolutions assignment, they create a video unboxing the components needed for a revolution. 

  • I teach a "Great Inventions" class and I'm dialing this up for the final unit.  This is epic.  I did an unboxing video for my AI Rabbit R1.  I waited a week to put the video on social media and in that short amount of time I realized nobody was interested, our phones could all do the same thing as the Rabbit.  But I'm going to have my kids do an unboxing video on a PAST invention from history!  Something like... the lightbulb!  Or the astrolabe- or stirrups- wow, this might be fun.

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    A few years back I did something like this... I didn't know it had a name. When I did the museum project, I encouraged students to think of original ways to create their exhibit. I gave extra points for thinking "outside the box" (no pun intended).  I worked with one group to develop the ideas of their kiosk inside a box instead of on display. Students had to explain the items to each group of onlookers as they moved from station to station.

    It worked out very well. I was impressed with the group's decisions. It also proved a good move to allow choices in how to make the displays because I don't think every group could have pulled it off. 

  • I absolutely love this idea,  . I can see the sender & receiver of the box as a great way to connect with the skill of document analysis.  Maybe even extending the sender / receiver to show the impact of industrialized areas on non- or less-industrialized areas, to show the impact of rising sea levels on the islands in the Pacific, etc. 

    I'm glad for Spring Break next week, so I can gather shoe boxes & items for this, then ask students to add to the collection of what belongs or could be added to the box.