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West Ed Muddy Road
I created three interactive education modules for West Ed, a non-profit educational research organization. Each module was an interactive visual demonstration aimed at teaching kids about physics and biology.
In this one, a student is presented with the scenario that they are in charge of putting out a fire that is happening high up on a ridge. They have to drive up a muddy road to get there, and are presented with various challenges along the way. The first test is to estimate which of two roads is faster to get to the top–the longer road that is smoother and can be driven faster, or the short road that is slower and muddy. Then they have to estimate the amount and direction of force necessary to slow a skidding truck of a specific weight before it hits a tree.
Each scenario has an animation, an interaction section, and a written hypothesis and feedback section.
This is so cool.