realia

Plural: realia

Noun

• Real objects used as teaching aids to illustrate daily life.
• Objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical constructs or fabricated examples.
• Words and expressions for culture-specific material elements.
• Physical objects in a library collection that do not fit into traditional categories of media, whose media are the objects themselves, as opposed to their informational content, such as artifacts, tools, memorabilia, and naturally-occurring specimens.

Examples

• The Scrabble tiles themselves are REALIA for learning about letters and word formation.