Flash Conversion Project

Adobe stopped updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020. With the help of K-12 School Technology Initiative funding, we're grateful to the companies and team of developers who assisted in the preservation of our interactives, making them accessible for classrooms on future devices.

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Microscope Interactive | Hobby Shop

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In this activity, students use a virtual biology lab to perform investigations and learn lab procedures using compound and dissecting microscopes to look at a variety of animal and plant cells.

Balloon Blast Interactive | Hobby Shop

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Learn how velocity and distance work in this balloon blast game. A catapult is a military device that was used in ancient and medieval times to hurl stones, spears, and other objects. There were many...

Rocket | Hobby Shop

Interactive

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In this science-based game, choose and customize a rocket. Launch your rocket and learn about Newton's Laws.

Learning About the Stage and Auditions | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Learning About the Stage: The Green Room where actors wait to go onstage, or rest between scenes. Why is it called a Green Room? Apparently no one really knows, although there are several theories...

Dressing Room: How to Make an Actor Look Older | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

An actor must walk, talk, and look like the character. The use of makeup adds to the authenticity of the performance.

Sound Studio | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

In the theater, sound refers to sound effects and music, as well as the audibility of the actors. Adding music and sound effects, like lighting, can change the mood of a production. Sound can also...

Lighting Studio | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Theater lighting is an important aspect of the stage picture. The first thing theater lights do is to illuminate the stage and actors so they can be seen. Lighting can create the mood of a scen and...

Costume Shop: Fashion in Shakespeare's Time | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In Shakespeare's day fashion made a major statement. Wealthy people wore expensive, uncomfortable clothes because they demonstrated a person's prosperity and high social standing. To dress the actors...

Scene Shop: How To Build A Set | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Scenery is a very important element to stage productions. The scenery or set helps create a time and a place. A set designer, carpenters and painters are needed to build sets. Before building a set...

Modeling a Head From Clay | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Modeling is an additive process. The artist builds up a soft, flexible material such as wax or clay, piece by piece. These soft materials are fragile. They don’t usually last very long, so they have...

How Do You Make a Cast? | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Casting is the process of changing a sculpture made from a soft, temporary substance, like unfired clay or wax, to a hard material such as cement, bronze or steel. The artist makes a mold from the...

Carving a Figure Out of Wood | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Carving is a subtractive process. A carver removes bits and pieces of a hard material, slowly revealing the desired shape. Many different things can be carved – stone, marble, wood, plaster, plastic...

Create a Storyboard | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Drop and drag the scenes around to create a storyboard.

Movie Soundtrack | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Learn how a movie soundtrack works by selecting music to go along with the scene.

Animation Basics | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Flipping from image to image very quickly creates the illusion of movement. Have you ever played with a flipbook? Try out this drag n' drop game.

Re-Mix Studio | Artopia

Interactive

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Be a music producer! Select a type of music and re-mix it!

Red Riding Hood | Gullah Tales

Interactive

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5

Listen to the interactive version of the Little Red Riding Hood in both English and Gullah. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue)

Bossy Elephant | Gullah Tales

Interactive

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5

Listen to the interactive version of the Bossy Elephant in both English and Gullah. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue)

Praise House | Gullah Music

Interactive

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5

Students will understand how enslaved Africans created music for their worship experience. Religious meetings in “praise houses” provided the spiritual outlet for enslaved Africans on the plantation...

Secret Code | Gullah Music

Interactive

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5

Students will understand that music and material culture became a mode of covert communication between slaves. Aunt Pearlie Sue is our guide as students uncover hidden messages in the work songs...

Got the Blues | Gullah Music

Interactive

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5

Students will understand traditional blues form that contains three four-measure phrases that follow the pattern AAB. Let Reverend Leroy show you how to express your sad feelings by composing a blues...

The Three Rivers | RiverVenture

Interactive

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

After floating through the hilly Piedmont, you arrive at the Sandhills of South Carolina. Between 55 and 100 million years ago the sea level was higher and the coast was farther inland. Marine fossils...

Estuary | RiverVenture

Interactive

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

RiverVenture needs your help! Riverventure Headquarters has heard reports of problems in the estuary. A sign warns people not to collect or eat shellfish such as oysters and clams. People are testing...

Catawba River | RiverVenture

Interactive

Grades: 1 2 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

From the Appalachian Mountains, the Catawba River south through the Carolina Piedmont, where it becomes the Wateree River and eventually flows out to the Atlantic Ocean as the Santee River. From the...