Making Big Cats' Web Pages
Grade
Level: First |
Time
Required: 30-40
minutes |
Objective:
Students understand that
scientists and technologists use a variety of tools to obtain information in
more detail and to make work easier. |
Skills:
Classifying and
categorizing |
Overview:
The students will
make their own web pages using Web Workshop software.
Materials required:
A computer with Internet connection and Web Workshop CD-ROM (or
similar web authoring software program)
Vocabulary:
a. mouse b.
CD-ROM drive
c. keyboard d. monitor
Procedures:
This lesson is
structured in the style of Bloom's Taxonomy.
It is meant to integrate higher level thinking skills into this unit. The
activities listed below are set up to be completed within a week.
Activities:
Knowledge- The teacher will explain how to
use the web authoring software. The students will work in pairs of two as they
practice using this software. |
Comprehension- The students will make a basic
outline showing how they will design their web pages. |
Application: Using Web
Workshop the students will draw a picture and write basic telling sentences
about what they learned about big cats. |
Analysis- The
students will make corrections (with the teachers assistance)
to their web pages before they are saved. |
Synthesis-
The students will
share their web pages with the others students. Make a class web site to show off the
students work and creativity; post on school's web site or other free site,
such as Yahoo's Geocities. |
Technology
Connection-
Yahoo's Geocities- free site that hosts web sites
Rubistar
Rubrics for Teachers-
create an online rubric |
Extension:
Evaluation:
The students
will view their web pages with the class and teacher can evaluate the web pages
using a Rubistar
Web Page Rubric.
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National
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By Patricia Mullins
Nature’s
Children (Cheetahs)
Animals
and Their “Hiding Places”
By Alia Smyth
Books
for Young Explorers
Grolier
Limited, 1989
National
Geographic Society, 1986
Nature’s
Children (The Cougar)
By Lynn M.
Store
Rourke
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