Ransom Christofferson

Front-end dev & web/UI/print design

Interactive lessons

Online interactive lessons

The Education & Outreach department at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics creates science lessons for middle and high school classrooms. Some of these lessons require equipment that's difficult or expensive to aquire, so they had me create online interactive versions of those lessons, so that educators can still use the material even if they can't get hold of the required equipment. I built 14 interactive experiences in total.

Many of these were eventually ported to the Apple app store as native iPad apps.

I built these with Flash, as that was the popular technology at the time.

  • Role: Design & programming
  • Technologies used: Flash, Photoshop
  • Year: 2008–2016
  • Client: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

Screenshot of a weather balloon experiment simulator
Screenshot of a simulator that helps students understand basic properties of orbits
Screenshot of a planet creation simulator that helps students understand what's required for liquid water
Screenshot of an interactive lesson that teaches about the sun
Screenshot of an interactive lesson that teaches what a reflectance spectrometer is used for
Screenshot of an interactive simulator of the southern polar vortex