The World Wide Web
Summary
Materials
Instructional Activities and Classroom Assessments
- Reflection (5 minutes)
- World Wide Web (5 minutes)
- Basic HTML (15 minutes)
- Teaching Others about the Internet (25 minutes)
- Homework
Learning Objectives
- CSN-1.A Explain how computing devices work together in a network.
- CSN-1.B Explain how the Internet works. CSN-1.C
- CSN-1.D Describe the differences between the Internet and the World Wide Web.
- CSN-2.A For sequential, parallel, and distributed computing:
- Compare problem solutions.
- Determine the efficiency of solutions.
- CSN-2.B
- IOC-1.B
Essential Knowledge
Details
1. Reflection (5 minutes)
- Discuss the Reflection Questions from last night's homework.
- Folding at Home video:
- How is Folding at Home an example of distributed computing?
- What impact can this have on our lives?
- Parallel and Distributed Computing:
- Is sequential computing ever more efficient than parallel or distributed computing? If so, when?
- What are the benefits of parallel and distributed computing?
- What are the challenges of parallel and distributed computing?
2. World Wide Web (5 minutes)
Discuss the terms of the World Wide Web:
- Inventor of WWW
- URL
- HTTP & HTTPS
- HTML
- Web page
- Link
- Website
- Web browser
3. Basic HTML (15 minutes)
- Show students basic HTML syntax.
- Send students to W3schools.com to practice basic HTML syntax.
4. Teaching others about the Internet (25 minutes)
- Explain to students the following:
- Their next project will be to create a webpage teaching others how the Internet works.
- Helping people visualize how the Internet works is important.
- Part of the project will be to create a visual that depicts how the Internet works.
- They will be able to add the visual as an image on the webpage they will create.
- Tasks students to do the following:
- Select an activity that you perform with a computing device connected to the Internet.
- Track the activity using the vocabulary and processes you have learned.
- Create a visual for each activity to demonstrate how everything works together.
5. Homework
- Students need to complete their diagram for homework.