REALIA: objects oractivities used to relate classroom teaching to the real life especially of peoples studied
Invented in the 1930s, the word "realia" is still used mostly in the classroom by teachers, especially foreign-language teachers, and in the library by cataloguers (realia in libraries can consist of things as bizarre as author's hair and teeth donated posthumously), but it's seeping out. You might, for examle, hear of someone putting "realia" - objects that represent present-day life - in a time capsule. "Realia" is also sometimes used philosophically to distinguish real things from the theories about them. Like "memorabilia" (memorable things or memories), "juvenilia" (works produced in an artist's or author's youth), and "marginalia" (marginal notes or embellishments), "realia" incorporates the Latin plural ending - ia but has no corresponding singluar form.
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