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Computer Science: Temperature
Students conduct an experiment on heat transfer and how it works. They record the temperature in whatever environment is surrounding the container and run experiments that use at least two different ambient temperatures. Students...
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Jeopardy Game
Students review terms and concepts related to the class through games. They play a jeopardy style game to review concepts realted to the class.
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GIS: Mapping Watersheds of the Edwards Aquifer in Travis County
Students manipulate existing GIS data to create and map a new layer of information that shows that watersheds in Travis County that are on top of Edwards Aquifer. They create and map that shows the watersheds in Travis County that are on...
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Basic Design Elements Computer Art Project
Young scholars use PhotoDraw software to create original drawings. Using the basic design elements, line, shape, form, texture, value, and color, students create original drawings on the computer based on drawings previously rendered by...
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Basic Design Elements Computer Art Project
Students use PhotoDraw software to create original drawings. Using the basic design elements, line, shape, form, texture, value, and color, students create original drawings on the computer based on drawings previously rendered by hand.
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Intro to Wikis
Tenth graders explore different aspects of online safety, they post current information to a collaborative wiki page. They search for additional facts and hyperlinks to their sources. Students draft a storyboard and/or script for a...
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Arsenic Globally
Learners, using directed questions, identify five internet resources. They use these resources to identify relevant information by highlighting those sections that address the provided questions. Students present the answers to these...
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Frame Animation
Students examine the idea that an object might never have a "fixed" existence and may be a thing existing always in flux by creating a frame-based animation of something that transforms from one shape into another. They create...
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Power Point Presentation
High schoolers use multimedia to create presentations. The national technology standards are used to have a foundation for technology usage. The users of this lesson should be technology literate before attempting the preparation.
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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
Pupils 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!
Learners 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
Pupils 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
Young scholars 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
Learners 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
Learners 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
Students 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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Painting Botanicals by Computer Lesson
Pupils 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.