Running Reality for Teachers
Take your students to visit history.
Turn a history lesson into a virtual field trip. Students can explore historical places, question the people they meet, and examine the evidence behind their stories.
One-time 45-day free trial.
- Start in a web browser
- No student accounts needed
- Historical content is free to explore
Connect with your curriculum
Make the journey count toward your learning objectives.
Bring historical inquiry into the topics you already teach. Find connections between your curriculum standards, the skills students practice, and the historical places and events they can investigate.
- Put events in context. Connect people, places, and changes over time.
- Compare perspectives. Investigate how people's roles and experiences shape their accounts.
- Build an explanation. Use sources and evidence to support a historical interpretation.
An investigation students can step into
Explore. Ask questions. Discover together.
Give students a reason to look closer. Premium classroom features turn exploration into an active investigation, with you guiding the questions and the pace.
WALK
Walk through history
Walk through historical settings at ground level to find people, documents, and artifacts. Gamified exploration gives students a reason to look closer and discover the evidence that will shape their investigation.
TALK
Investigate different perspectives
Ask digital historical reenactors questions to understand different perspectives. Investigate how people's roles and experiences shape their accounts, follow the supporting citations, and compare what you learn.
SYNC
Bring the class to each place
Bring all student devices to the same historical place and time. Let students explore that place, find people and artifacts, and investigate different perspectives, then take the class to the next stop.
Easy to get started
A simple start for your next history lesson.
Present on a classroom display or let students explore on their own devices. Start with a sample experience and a question worth investigating.
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Choose your investigation
Find a historical place or event that connects to your learning objectives. Preview the people, perspectives, and sources you want students to examine.
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Open and share
Use a web browser on your classroom display, or share a class link through your learning platform. Students can join without creating accounts.
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Lead the inquiry
Set a question, give students time to explore, and bring the class together to discuss the evidence and build an explanation.
Classroom access
Unlock historical inquiry for your class.
Help students investigate different perspectives, gather evidence, and build explanations tied to your learning objectives. A teacher subscription unlocks WALK, TALK, and SYNC on student devices, so you can lead the inquiry across the class.
$29.00 USD for the first paid year; then $59.00 USD / year
One-time 45-day free trial. Sign up with any email address. No card required. Your trial starts when you choose Start free trial in your profile.
| Feature | Free exploration | Teacher subscription |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $29.00 USD for the first paid year; then $59.00 USD / year |
| Every historical scene | Yes | Yes |
| Explore from above | Yes | Yes |
| WALK | No | Yes |
| TALK | No | Yes |
| SYNC | No | Yes |
Schools can discuss a pilot, instructional content, and institutional purchasing with our team.
School / District: Quote by enrollment. Teacher for every teacher, purchase order and invoice, privacy agreement, objectives by state and grade, onboarding, optional add-ons. Free trial: Pilot.
From classroom to community
Take the investigation beyond the classroom.
Historic sites can bring local expertise and researched content into your classroom. Use that same history to prepare for a field trip, investigate on location, and continue the discussion afterward, with familiar tools and questions that connect to your learning objectives.
Explore historic site partnerships and connections with local businesses to bring the community's history into the investigation.
The practical details.
Find the details that matter for your classroom.
Use a web browser on laptops, tablets, or phones, or present on a projector, large display, or touch screen. Students can walk through historical settings on screen; cardboard viewers are optional. Preview your chosen experience on the devices you plan to use.
Share a class link through Google Classroom, Blackboard, Schoology, or your usual classroom resources. The link gives students access without another login. Continue to use your learning platform for assignments, grading, and assessment.
Teacher subscriptions include ad-free access. Free exploration can also be
ad-free: sign in when presenting, or share links with the student
parameter for an ad-free student view.
Running Reality provides historical context and interpretation. Interactive people are digital reenactors whose dialogue draws on cited material. Their conversations are historical portrayals; students should examine the underlying sources, compare perspectives, and evaluate the evidence behind a claim.
Explore historical citations and learn about digital reenactors.
Organize an investigation around a sequence of historical dates and places. Prepare prompts, choose where to pause for discussion, and connect what students discover with reading, writing, or other coursework.
Use historical content to prepare for a site visit and revisit it afterward. GUIDE supports walking a real site through individual or site-sponsored access; it is separate from the teacher subscription's classroom features.
School subscriptions include custom instructional content and support purchase orders and invoicing. Schools can discuss a pilot with our team. Custom instructional content is also available as an add-on for teacher subscriptions.
Start with one moment in history.
See what your students could investigate, then connect the experience to your classroom.