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Website Design Using HTML Code
Students participate in an activity to discover vocabulary necessary for website design. They observe a demonstration of website design using HTML code and then design two simple web pages with specific criteria. The final project allows...
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How to Make Your Own Website
Students explore technology by creating a web page on-line. In this digital arts lesson, students identify the structure needed to create a website as well as the content required to keep visitors entertained. Students collaborate in...
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Web Design
Students view a PowerPoint about the origins of the Internet. Using a software program, they discover the ins and outs of the Internet and web design. They share their creation with the class and offer constructive criticism to their...
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Creating Your First HTML Document
Students explore HTML tags and how they are used in creating web pages. They use a simple editor to create their own web page and save their work on their computers.
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Introduction to HTML
Students examine how to use basic HTML formatting tags. They add tags to a web page created in Notepad, and move the tags around their page, observing the results.
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Web Design
Using Microsoft Word, students will construct a "web page" with hyperlinks to real sites. Students will learn Internet terminology, search strategies, and design techniques. Teacher may also use TechnoLink, an external computer...
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Breaking News English: Europeana Website Crash
For this Europeana website crash worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Streetfilms' Moving Beyond the Automobile
This is an exceptional series that you can use in an environmental or engineering unit. There are four lessons: "Sustainable Transportation," "Designing for Safety," "Changing the Landscape," and "Engaging in Policy." Each instructional...
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Creating a Web Page
Learners complete a unit focusing on the creation of a student-generated website. They read and evaluate articles about business ethics, critique websites, and develop a student-created webpage.
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Website Layout And Style
Students create a layout for a website and practice using FrontPage Express to create the tables for the layout. They use style sheets to mock up a design for a school web page with the school's logo. This is activity four in an eight...
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Cracker Design
Students are presented with the following problem: A cracker manufacturer has been losing money and has to find a way to save her factory. They are given the task to design a new shape for the cracker manufacturer so that as little...
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A Webpage with Frontpage
Students design a school webpage. In this webpage design lesson, students use Frontpage software to build a successful, attractive, and informational Web page.
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Lights, Camera, Action!
Students add various types of multimedia to a website they have created about volcanoes. They review what would best enhance their website and determine what the value and cost be in adding that particular piece of multimedia.
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HTML project--A Walk in the Park
Students make a web page which includes a table. They download text from the Internet, create a table, insert and adjust the size of images, establish hyperlinks, create an email link and add background and text attributes.
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Making Big Cats' Web Pages
Students investigate the lives of big cats by creating a website. In this web design lesson, students examine web authoring software in pairs as they read books on big cats. Students share their web page creations with the class and...
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Growing Up Online
Ninth graders participate in an activity as a web designer. In this technology lesson, 9th graders explore how the choices made by web designers affect how people use a site. Students analyze effective and ineffective Web design,...
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Technology and Inventions Project
Technology—what exactly is it? Find out with a project designed to inspire the inner inventor in us all. The activity begins with a captivating podcast and a search of multiple websites that display different inventions and technology,...
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Portfolios - Web Mastering
Students develop a portfolio that showcases major class projects that were completed during the year. The portfolio provides structure for developing and understanfing criteria for good efforts.
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A Fishy Tale
Eighth graders do a research project on a particular species of Atlantic seafood and record and graph information pertaining to commercial landings of that species of seafood. They use a website and an Appleworks spreadsheet.
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Branding Circles, Squares, Rectangles, Triangles
Compare and classify 2-D shapes! Kindergarteners inspect the attributes of plane shapes and examine shapes in everyday life. They label the circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles they find. This is the website where you can find the...
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Learning With Paint And Literature: "Today I Feel Silly"
Students draw a picture related to the book "Today I Feel Silly" using a computer drawing program. They listen to the story and answer discussion questions, view drawings on the teacher's Paint website, and create an illustration of...
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Creating a WebPage (In Spanish)
Students develop a webpage in Spanish. They are introduced to HTML and must have at least three links on their page. They also insert graphics to make their webpage more appealing.
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The Physics of Bridges
Stability is key when building a bridge. Scholars explore the forces acting upon bridges through an analysis of Newton's Laws and Hooke's Law. The activity asks individuals to apply their learning by building a bridge of their own.
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TE Activity: Muscles, Muscles Everywhere
Students study three different muscle types and investigate the affect of space travel on astronauts' muscles. They examine how exercise has a positive affect on muscle both on Earth and in space while looking at engineers' roles in...