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Interactives

Smart is Fun! In this collection, you can find interactive activities, simulations, 360 video and virtual reality tours.

Smart is Fun!

In this collection, you can find interactive activities, simulations, 360 video and virtual reality tours.

Within this Collection

Content Type
 The Vietnam Experience 360 | Palmetto Scene

Video

Grades

  • 5
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The Vietnam Experience 360 | Palmetto Scene
Patriots Point brings the history of the Vietnam War to life in this fully immersive 2 ½ acre exhibit. Walk through the exhibit to experience the sights and sounds of the Vietnam Experience with this...
3D VR - The Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon |  Let's Go!

Interactive

Grades

  • 4
  • 8
3D VR - The Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon | Let's Go!
Located in downtown Charleston, the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon is nationally recognized as one of our country’s most significant historical sites. Click play to view the tour on your device View...
3D VR - South Carolina State House

Interactive

Grades

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3D VR - South Carolina State House
Main Lobby The main lobby includes the outside facade, the false dome, the dome room, which leads to the outer dome, and hand-carved mahogany doors, which provide entrance to the Joint Legislative...
3D VR - Historic Brattonsville Homestead House | Let's Go

Interactive

Grades

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3D VR - Historic Brattonsville Homestead House | Let's Go
Homestead House was built in 1823-1826 by Dr. John Simpson Bratton, son of William and Martha Bratton. In the early 19th century, William Bratton’s son, Dr. John Bratton, inherited the estate. He was...
Microscope Interactive | Hobby Shop

Interactive

Grades

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Microscope Interactive | Hobby Shop
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

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Balloon Blast Interactive | Hobby Shop
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

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Rocket | Hobby Shop
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

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Learning About the Stage and Auditions | Artopia
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...
Sound Studio | Artopia

Interactive

Grades

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Sound Studio | Artopia
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

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Lighting Studio | Artopia
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

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Costume Shop: Fashion in Shakespeare's Time | Artopia
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

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Scene Shop: How To Build A Set | Artopia
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

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Modeling a Head From Clay | Artopia
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

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How Do You Make a Cast? | Artopia
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

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Carving a Figure Out of Wood | Artopia
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...
Movie Soundtrack | Artopia

Interactive

Grades

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Movie Soundtrack | Artopia
Learn how a movie soundtrack works by selecting music to go along with the scene.
Animation Basics | Artopia

Interactive

Grades

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Animation Basics | Artopia
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

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Re-Mix Studio | Artopia
Be a music producer! Select a type of music and re-mix it!
What a Friend in Gullah | Gullah Tales

Interactive

Grades

  • Kindergarten
  • 1
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What a Friend in Gullah | Gullah Tales
Listen to the interactive version of the What A Friend in Gullah. Click here for the English Version. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue).
What a Friend in English | Gullah Tales

Interactive

Grades

  • Kindergarten
  • 1
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  • 3
What a Friend in English | Gullah Tales
Listen to the interactive version of the What A Friend in English. Click here for the English Version. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue).
Jealous Bragging Turtle in English | Gullah Tales

Interactive

Grades

  • Pre K
  • Kindergarten
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Jealous Bragging Turtle in English | Gullah Tales
Students will read and listen to Aunt Pearlie Sue’s animated English version of the traditional folktale "The Jealous Bragging Turtle." Stories teach a moral or explain the origin something in nature...