Animating Understanding: SERP’s Work Featured on Tumult’s Blog

May 7, 2025

We're thrilled to share that the SERP has been featured on Tumult's official blog for our innovative use of Tumult Hype in developing interactive learning materials.

Lemonade in glass with ice cubes, showing sugar molecules mixing with water. A thermometer and a cartoon character are included.

Hype, a powerful HTML5 animation tool, has become integral to our mission of creating engaging educational resources. Unlike passive videos, the animations created with Hype encourage exploration and discussion, fostering deeper understanding.​

One standout project involved collaborating with New York City's Middle School Quality Initiative (MSQI) to address challenging science topics. Using Hype, we developed interactive animations on concepts like wave energy and natural selection, making abstract ideas more tangible for students. For instance, our "lemonade" animation vividly demonstrates condensation, allowing students to visualize water droplets forming on a cold glass—a phenomenon that's hard to capture in traditional teaching methods.​

We invite you to read the full feature on Tumult's blog to learn more.

Explore some of the interactive animations we've developed:

Cartoon illustration zooming in on a yeast cell, showing organelles and red/green particles.
Water wave model showing a surfer on a yellow surfboard, blue dots representing the wave, and a
Thermometer with rising red level next to a gray box with nine black dots.
Scientist Pig
Beach scene: water bottle on a towel, two starfish on the sand, ocean waves in the background.
Red dots forming a sine wave, demonstrating higher frequency.
Wave Model A, pink dots. Wave Model B, yellow dots. Both sets of dots are in straight lines.
Welcome to Downtown Dustville sign, purple frame, brown text, cactus, beige background.
Animated depiction of water molecules (red and white) and ions (green and purple) in a solution.