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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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Modifying an HTML Document
Students make changes in HTML documents by re-opening workspace for their web pages, using the text editor, and reloading document in web browser to see changes.
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Smart Design
Share pupil responses to an interactive slide show about a design initiative intended to help the world's poor. The class works in groups to brainstorm ideas, and then prepares sketches of their own design solutions. Each rendering...
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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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HTML Graphic Images
Students continue to enchange their webpage using HTML. Individually, they use the internet to search for photographs and practice putting them into their webpage. They must find the appropriate size for the image and show their page...
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HTML Horizontal Rules
Students are introduced to the horizontal rules HTML uses. Individually, they practice inserting the rules into a webpage to change the physical attributes. To end the lesson, they create their own business web page and present it to...
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Introduction to HTML
Students listen to a brief history of HTML and its basic principles. They interact with command tags on computers and perform tasks that the web browser would understand.
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Lists, Lists, Lists
Students identify HTML codes for creating unordered, ordered, and nested lists for a web page, place different list types within HTML documents, and view the changes within web pages.
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Adding Links using HTML
Pupils create hyperlinks using the "A HREF" tag. They are creating a page concerning colleges and universities they might like to attend. They link their page to each college/university.
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This Land is Your Land
Students consider the concept of borders and their development by looking at maps and documents. They create a presentation highlighting a current border dispute and propose solutions.
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Give Credit Where Credit is Due
Middle schoolers explain what plagiarism is, why it is a problem, and how to avoid it. They articulate why it is unacceptable in a research document, and they show how to avoid it by using proper citation tools. They demonstrate correct...
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Meet Your New eBuddy
Students are introduced to the eBuddies laptop system. Using the technology, they create a new Word document and practice using a mouse. Opening a new window from Internet Explorer, they view an appropriate site which allows them to...
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Keyboarding - Correcting Capitals Proofreading
Work on proofreading and editing a document with this keyboarding lesson plan.Youngsters are given a text with no capital letters. They proofread and retype the document adding capitals when necessary. This is designed for a keyboarding...
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A Walk in the Park
Students complete their examination of HTML webpages with this lesson. Individually, they download information from the internet, create a table and adjust the size of images. To end the lesson, they add hyperlinks and change the...
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The Iditarod Adventure
Students use the internet to follow the Alaskan Iditarod race as well as perform research. This project-based activity will result in students creating many desktop publishing documents.
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Record and Preserve Your Family Stories
Students research and create a presentation about their own culture and personal history. They interview family members to increase their awareness of family events and documents. They create a family tree at a web based resource.
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Lumping vs. Splitting
Learners transform ordinary long-scrolling page into a logically connected web of information.
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Famous Person Report - Computer Applications
High schoolers choose famous person to research online, use at least two different sources to find information, prepare rough drafts and document sources, meet in groups for peer feedback, review with teacher, and turn in final report.
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Internet Scavenger Hunt: Lesson 1
Students participate in an Internet scavenger hunt in order to find information in Internet documents. Students work in groups to try to locate answers to specific questions, and must determine how reliable the answers might by rating...
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Mechanics of Elastic Solids
Make the connection between Hooke's law and elasticity with an activity that introduces the class to the behavior of elastic materials. The resource defines stress and strain to calculate the modules of elasticity of materials and also...
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Density and Miscibility
The liquids did not mix — so what do density columns have to do with it? The seventh part in a series of nine provides the theoretical explanation of why density columns do not mix. The lesson covers the topics related to mixing and...
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DNA Forensics and Color Pigments
Use food coloring in electrophoresis. The last segment in a four-part series mimics DNA fingerprinting by using chromatography. Teams conduct chromatography on food coloring to find colors that use similar pigmentation in their makeup.
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Composing a Web Page
Young scholars discuss what steps need to be completed to create their own webpage. Individually, they download a file from a word file and add their own background and text color. They also change the fonts and align the text in a way...
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American Indians
Sixth graders review and study the major regions of Native Americans and how their cultures were influenced by geography, natural resources and religious beliefs. They utilize chronological thinking, historical analysis and historical...