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Five-Minute Film Festival: April Fools Day!
Five-Minute Film Festival: April Fools Day!
Amy Erin Borovoy is Edutopia's video programming producer and curator, and she has a passion for content at the intersection of digital media and education. Follow her on Twitter @VideoAmy or subscribe to her YouTube channel for more videos for educators.
April Fools Day has a long and illustrious history of pranks both large and small -- so much so that sometimes real news stories published on April 1st get written off as fake. For teachers and students, it can be a chance to blow off some steam. There's no denying that sometimes it can go too far -- which probably makes more than a few educators glad that it falls on a weekend this year!
Whether you're the type to pull an elaborate hoax on your students or take the opportunity toteach about media literacy and how to identify accurate news stories, here are a few videos to make your inner trickster laugh. Happy All Fools Day!
Video Playlist: April Fool's Day!
Keep watching the player below to see the entire playlist, or view this playlist on YouTube.
- The History of April Fools Day (02:21)
- April Fool's 2010 - Decreased Gravity (04:56)
- Kids describe their best pranks on April Fool's Day (02:26)
- April Fools: Math Class Shadow (02:14)
- Spaghetti Harvest (1957): Voted #1 April Fools Prank in History (02:23)
- April Fools 2010 - A Prank on Dwyer (04:30)
- Best Pranks of the Last 100 Years (04:04)
- Post-it Note April Fool's Prank 2009 (01:59)
- Google Hoaxes and April Fool's Day Pranks (02:33)
- VIS April fool's day FlashMob (02:16)
- April Fools: Orchestra Practical Joke at Middleton HS (00:55)
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