Understanding Wikis and Ethical Responsible Posting of Information

Navigate your way through a smorgasbord of computer acronyms. Pupils see the relationship between LAN and WAN and examine how computers send information. They also learn about Internet protocol (IP), user datagram protocol (UDP),...

You thought hooking up your TV was difficult! Scholars learn about the various components that allow Internet users to send information across vast distances. This includes wires, fiber optic cables, and WiFi. 

Soon the Internet will have 340 undecillion unique IP addresses! An informative video explains how the Internet is a design philosophy. It then explores how computers can communicate with each other using IP addresses and the domain...

Four-letter words aren't necessary a bad thing. The fifth video of an eight-part series about how the Internet works focuses on HTTP and HTML. It describes how computers call up websites from servers using Get and Post requests.

Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the research of finding information to help them develop new science projects. They conduct research using a variety of resources that includes e-mail and discussion groups.

Many use the Internet but few know how it works. Viewers learn more about the network behind the Internet with a short video that explains the fiber optics and integrated photonics that make global communication possible.

Introduce your class to the layers of abstraction of the Internet with a lesson on the HTTP protocol. Pupils review previous lessons on levels of the Internet, then investigate new high levels by examining the HTTP traffic on...

Is GIS the real manifestation of Harry Potter's Marauders Map? Introduce your class to the history of geographic information systems (GIS), the technology that allows for easy use of spatial information, with a resource that teaches...

Did you know that the World Wide Web and the Internet are not the same thing? Did you know that Tim Berners-Lee is considered the father of the Web? Networks, web servers, web hosts, website addresses, domain names, web languages,...

Speaking of the Internet. The culminating lesson for the unit on the Internet challenges pupils to prepare short, two-minute speeches on an issue facing society. The pupils chose from three topics that connect the Internet and...