Elizabeth River Service Project

State of Origin:
Virginia

Subject Area: Technology, Science, Language Arts

Grade Level: 7-8


Objective(s)

Students will create web pages to communicate service project.

National Standards

Technology: use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences. Language Arts: employ a range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with diverse audiences

Summary

In this project, students are involved in many different aspects of a service project working with the Elizabeth River. Students were trained to collect samples from the Elizabeth River and post data on a web site, including text and graphics. This unit takes place over the course of a year, and this lesson on web authoring is only one part.

Technology and/or Materials Needed

  • Computers with Internet access
  • Web authoring tool and teacher-created template
  • Microsoft Power Point software

Implementation Time Frame

Two 45-minute class period

Activities

With data collected from Elizabeth River, students will use a template previously created by teacher or instructional technologist to insert data and post on the web site.

Students will also be a part of training and sharing results with elementary students. Students will prepare this presentation using Power Point.

Assessment

Students' web pages may be evaluated for correct content.

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