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The World Wide Web

Summary

Materials

Instructional Activities and Classroom Assessments

  1. Reflection (5 minutes)
  2. World Wide Web (5 minutes)
  3. Basic HTML (15 minutes)
  4. Teaching Others about the Internet (25 minutes)
  5. 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:
    1. Compare problem solutions.
    2. 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.
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