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Using Computer for Statistical Analysis
Students examine the use for spreadsheets in analyzing data. They make spreadsheets that display and calculate a given data set such as temperature change.
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Advertisement Production Project
Students re-create a newspaper advertisement. They select an ad, and re-create the font, text, graphics, and images.
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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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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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Preformatted Text
Young scholars examine how to create a table of aligned text. They apply tabs and spaces to control the placement of text on a page.
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You Can Blockquote Me on That!
Students insert a block of text that is indented from the body text. They apply style tags within blockquote text.
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Lumping vs. Splitting
Learners transform ordinary long-scrolling page into a logically connected web of information.
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Colorful and Textured Backgrounds
Students create a solid color background for a web page. They calculate the hexadecimal code for a color value. They change the color of text and hypertext link items. They create a textured background from a graphic file.
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Easy Horizontal Rules
Students create horizontal rule lines with different thicknesses. They create horizontal rule lines with different widths. They create horizontal rule lines without 3D shading.
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Extra Alignment
Students create text that is aligned to the center of the page. They align images and blocks of text. They add specific spacing around images. They create text that is right justified.
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Clickable Image Maps
Students understand the difference between server-side and client-side processes. They create an inline image that has different portions hyperlinked to other web pages, pictures, and other sites on the Internet.
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META tags
Students write HTML to have one web page automatically advance to another page. They add embedded information that help others find their web site using Internet searches.
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Target That Window
Young scholars write HTML to make hyperlink open a URL or web page in a second web browser window. They write HTML so that all links in a page load in a specific browswer window.
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Ask Jake the Sea Dog
Young scholars access the ask-the-expert portion of the WhaleTimes.org website. They fill in the online form to submit a query of their choice and check their e-mail regularly for a response.
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Home, Home in the City
Students create a spreadsheet that organizes housing information in the Houston area. They write a formula to determine the average price of homes in the Houston area.
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Painting Botanicals by Computer Lesson
Students increase computer graphics skills and trace and paint botanicals from digital photographs taken of prairie plants using computer-aided artistic techniques in Painter Classic Software and with the Wacom Tablet and stylus.
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DATABASE INTRODUCTION AND BASIC APPLICATIONS USING STUDENT FAMILY TREES
Students gather information about family, parents, and grandparents using the database form. They place their personal information into the database and save the information to compile class in formation. They develop skills in database...
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Cloud Database
Learners research information on the types of clouds. They create a database and use a formula. They create various reports and access electronic information to obtain accurate pressure and temperature readings from the National Weather...
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The Story of Red and Blue- ART
Students examine works in Keith Haring's Red and Blue art series and emulate his style in a piece of their own work.
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Wastewater Treatment - Frontline Environmentalists
Students create a slideshow depicting the wastewater treatment process and present it.
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Typing, Reproducing and Distributing the Job Pamphlet
Students use a word processing program to make a job pamphlet that is suitable for reproduction. This lesson help students write for a purpose. They use the skills of organizing, pre-writing, and revising with a word processing program.
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Illustrate With Character
Students examine character traits and apply characteristics of those traits to images and quotations. They design, save and print using a desktop publishing program. They utilize reference tools to locate quotations.
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Carbons to Computers
Students collect, organize, and analyze primary and secondary source information that documents a local office. (Students synthesize what they have learned to predict the office's organization and functions in the year 2025.)
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Merge Letter
High schoolers create a database of addresses and a form letter, and merge that information into a letter.