Content Delivery - Simple Educational Activities

• A Tabela Periòdica dos Elementos, © 2000 Leo's Place, http://openlink.br.inter.net/leoehrlich/tabelaperiodica/, accessed March 2002.
  Although this page is nothing more than a periodic table of the elements, it is nice for a few reasons. The elements are presented rather large to allow visually impaired individuals to see the content. Mouse clicks are only needed to leave the site, but not to use the Flash movie. It's also nice to see more non-English educational content appearing online (even though I only speak English myself).
• Bembo's Zoo, unknown author and date, http://www.bemboszoo.com/, accessed March 2002.
  A truly interesting picture book using Flash, Bembo's Zoo takes letters of the alphabet and makes pictures from them. The effect is to help children learn both the alphabet and perhaps some artistic skills. Good also because it begins outside of Flash so that you have the opportunity to download if necessary.
• Screen Calculator, © 1999 Ambleside C.E. Primary Schools, http://www.ambleside.schoolzone.co.uk/ ambleweb/mentalmaths/Calculator.html
  Numberlines, © 2000 Mark Robinson, http://www.ambleside.
  schoolzone.co.uk/ ambleweb/mentalmaths/numberlines.html
  Protractor, © 2000 Mark Robinson, http://www.ambleside.
  schoolzone.co.uk/ ambleweb/mentalmaths/protractor.html
  Screenclock, © 1999 Ambleside C.E. Primary Schools, http://www.ambleside.schoolzone.co.uk/
  ambleweb/mentalmaths/clock.html, accessed March 2002
  You don't have to be an expert to make some quick learning activities using Flash. These activities from Ambleside C.E. Primary Schools demonstrate some simple utilities that can be used in primary education.
• Educational Interactive Games for Young Children, © 1999 - 2002 Suzanne Muse, http://www.musecreative.com/interact.html
  Herein you can find a large collection of short interactive games for small children that mostly mimic learning activities that traditionally are played on paper or with interactive toys. While I would never want to take away from the motor learning aspects of tool based children's games, these activities are still good examples of simple activities that make use of Flash to keep children occupied and learning for hours. The variety of the activities is also quite nice.
• Why Does Salt Melt Ice?, © 1997-2001 by Fred Senese, http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/
  101/solutions/faq/why-salt-melts-ice.shtml, accessed March 2002.
  You may be familiar with many similar animations as this one done using Java. Well, many of these animations can also be made with Flash. Although Flash is only a small portion of the content of this page, it is still very useful in provided an added mode for learning the given concept.
• G Protein Animation, © 2002 Palindrome Design, http://www.palindromedesign.com/GProteinanimation.html, accessed March 2002.
  One of many examples from Palindrome Design, the given one shows a stepwise animation of a biological process. Seeing as how I used to be a biochemist (I guess I still am even though I don't actively participate in the activity), I had to find something related to my old hat.
• The Tools for Designing Computer Aided Learning Material, © 1999
  EASI-ISAE Consortium. University of Derby, http://mediamatch.derby.ac.uk/UK/introduction/
  design/chem.htm, accessed March 2002.
  Another simple chemistry example that you might notice as similar to many Java applets available on the Web. Here, an experiment can be created online that is somewhat interactive and involving a final quiz. The page was created more as an example, but then, that's what we're looking for, right?
• Qwizdom, © 2002 Qwizdom, Inc., http://www.qwizdom.com/software/k12/Q0O/
  slide_nav.html, accessed March 2002.
  Qwizdom markets educational activities similar to the example above as part of pre-made courses. The example is given though to show how Flash can be used to create interactive quizzes online.
• Spellmaster, © 2001 F.McAree, http://www.spellmaster.com/index.htm, accessed March 2002.
  Want a collection of small tools that help teach spelling. Try Speedword for a good Flash demo.
• Alien Plants, © Actis Limited, in the Mathsonline game room, http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/sims/plants/data.html, accessed March 2002.
  Using this example you can see how you can link user input to a flash movie to demonstrate a concept.
• The New Randomizer: "Who Came?", © Anglofile (no date given), http://www.anglofile.com/randomizer/index.html, accessed March 2002.
  These short demonstration from this design company shows how you can link audio to Flash to create a language learning tool (a much more complex example from someone else can be found on the next page of this article).
• Transparent Language Vocabulary Master, © 2002 Transparent Language, http://www.transparent.com/vocabmaster/
  vmjava.htm?uwl=getravel.uwl, accessed March 2002.
  Flash can even be used to teach a foreign language as this short activity demonstrates.
• Working with Words, on the Oswego City School District Web site (no other copyright information available), http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/wwwords1.html, accessed March 2002.
  Learn letters and words by scrambling and descrambling the letters of the word with this simple tool. Requires 2 people to function wel