Curated OER
Maggie's Earth Adventures Unit
Students practice math, science, Spanish, and grammar skills using computer based activities in this unit of lessons. They experience lessons at different levels while tracking their progress using the attached progress chart.
Curated OER
Organizing A Corporation And Paying A Dividend
Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the establishment of a corporation. They apply accounting principles to different situations in order to make payments on a dividend. Students also investigate the basic accounting...
Curated OER
Constrating Cinderellas/ Connecting LA Cenerentola
Learners contrast the traditional Cinderella character with a modern, independent and socially conscious Cinderella. To activate prior knowledge by eliciting from the students some of the familiar story elements of the traditional...
Curated OER
Bon Voyage - Literature Travel Unit
Eighth graders locate and interpret information about the culture of another country using multi-media tools. Students read and interpret literature about characters and cultures from a foreign country. Students create a travel guide...
Curated OER
USING the SCIENTIFIC METHOD for PROBLEM SOLVING
Students work in teams to map the scientific method as applied in a present day medical situation. Their collaboration of data and findings should lead to a mutual conclusion. Students watch a variety of video's concerning these situations.
Curated OER
Tasmanian Time Travel
Sixth graders perform research using the Internet about the Tasmanian Devil. The project can be presented in a variety of ways. The use of computer software is important for students to know, specifically Hyperstudio.
Curated OER
Made for the Movies
Students create a movie flyer to advertise the novel that the class has just finished reading in small groups. They search the Internet, format their flyer, select a slogan for their film, write a brief plot summary, without giving away...
Curated OER
What Trout Need
Learners investigate the important components for a healthy trout habitat. In this fish habitat lesson, students discuss how the aquarium will simulate a trout's environment in nature. Learners complete a trout information sheet to set...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Web Design: Module 7: Web Development
In Module 7 of this course on web design, students learn how to use CSS style rules to create the page layout, color scheme, and typography for a web site's design. From this, they learn how to create a template that can be used over and...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Web Design: Module 1: Understanding Your Role
In Module 1 of this course on web design, students look at how web content is delivered to a user and the path structure of files and folders. They learn what the role of a web developer is and the job requirements and salary levels....
Princeton Review
Princeton Review: Career: Website Designer
The Princeton Review provides information on a career as a Website designer. Includes educational requirements that are needed, future outlook for jobs in the field, and facts and figures on salary, etc.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Follow the Bouncing Ball: A Web Animation Project
This project is a fun way to try your hand at programming and expand your knowledge of web design. You will learn how to create some simple animations, and perform tests and make measurements to help you create more realistic-looking...
Practical Action
Practical Action: Eco Design Web
Eco Design web is a useful evaluation tool that can help pupils from 5-18 years evaluate their own products, designs, or an existing product. The pupils can develop their own or use pre-developed evaluation criteria to assess one or...
Other
U.s. Department of Health and Human Services: usability.gov
A one-stop resource for government-compiled information on how to develop websites that boost their usability and accessibility based on proven methods of design and audience analysis. With many, many how-tos, such as how to write for...
Other
Web developer.com: Quicksilver Effect on Text
This site shows you how to create the Quicksilver effect using Photoshop with text. Check it out!
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Design Step 2: Research the Problem
Through Internet research, patent research, standards and codes research, user interviews (if possible) and other techniques (idea web, reverse engineering), students further develop the context for their design challenge. In subsequent...
Other
E Learning Developers' Journal: What Is Personalized Learning [Pdf]
This article takes on the complex issues of designing personalized learning strategies for web learning instruction and environments. What do students do when teachers are not there to provide motivation, direction, goal setting and...
Other
Browser Archives
A comprehensive archive of links to versions of many different browsers. Current to 2005. This site is maintained by an international volunteer group primarily for professional web developers.
Other
Introducing Plain Language
This site by Plain Language Online states that plain language "begins with the needs of the reader," which will determine why and how the writer writes. It goes on to elaborate on audience and purpose, idea organization, use of...
Other
Web Log Analysis, Who's Doing What, When?
Offers ways to handle your web site's traffic using log formats and identifying visits.
FNO Press
From Now On: Designing School Web Sites to Deliver
Comprehensive From Now On site detailing the reasons to develop school web sites as well as the processes involved. Many links to resources provided however, some are not active.
Other
Color Maker
This very useful site allows you to change the color and background patterns of a web page, and then copy the HTML code to your own site. Includes a tutorial, links to other web pages about color design, and links to a TableMaker and a...
Other
Mcsr: Hints for Web Authors
This site from the Mississipi Center for Supercomputing Research provides a continuously revised report on tips for web design authoring.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: On the Farm With Wilbur and Charlotte
During this unit, students will explore many aspects of the book Charlotte's Web. Students will work as a group to develop a presentation, design a web page, and prepare a newsletter. They will also complete a WebQuest about Charlotte's...