Day 1 - July 19th
Curricular Areas
Class introduction
Computer Skills
Rules of the lab
Turning computer on & off
Computer vocabulary - floppy disk, CD ROM, mouse, monitor, keyboard, desktop,
folder, pointer, file, etc.
Creating a desktop folder with their name
Opening the Adobe PageMill
Making a name-tag
Day 2 - July 20th
Curricular Areas
Keyboarding skills, introduction to internet, introduction to marine life
Computer Skills
Adobe PageMill - opening the program, typing self-introduction, saving
the typed text
Taking photos using the digital camera for the web site
Marine Life
Deciding what they will research on - whales, sea otters and tide pools
Watching a short video about whales
Making a chart of popular marine animals collected from their host families
on computer
Day 3 - July 22nd
Curricular Areas
Internet, introduction to email
Computer Skills
Opening what you saved
Revising the self-introduction using spell check, highlighting the text,
cut and paste, delete, move
Getting online - connecting to internet, obtain their own email account
through yahoo
Search engine - yahoo, lycos, excite, etc.
Marine Life
Go to web sites about whales, sea otters and tide pools
Day 4 - July 23rd
Curricular Area
Developing web page, research on marine animals
Computer Skills
Editing and finishing the self- introduction page - choosing, saving, and
applying a background from a web site
Research on marine animals using given web sites and books - find answers
to specific questions such as:
where they live, what kind there are, what they eat, how big they are,
how people have interacted with them, etc.
Typing and saving the research findings in Adobe PageMill
Marine Life
Continue the research on marine animals
Day 5 - July 26th
Curricular Areas
Developing web page, research on marine animals, getting an email account
Computer Skills
Cutting and pasting important information from a web site into their page
with an appropriate citation
Rating the sites you found using search engines
Sending emails to their friends
Marine Life
Continue the research on marine animals
Day 6 - July 27th
Shortened class schedule - Mike Jones Music Presentation
Curricular Area
Developing web page, research on marine animals, reading emails
Computer Skills
Continue to develop and create their web page
Reading Emails
Marine Life
Continue the research on marine animals
Day 7 - July 29th
Curricular Areas
Developing web page, research on marine animals, sending emails
Computer Skills
Continue to develop their web page
Sending and receiving more emails
Typing the poem into Adobe PageMill
Marine Life
Continue the research on marine animals
Write a poem using the words and facts we learned from the class so far
Day 8 - July 30th
Curricular Area
Developing web page, research on marine animals, more web pages
Computer Skills
Continue to develop and create their web page
Link their web page to the web pages about whales, sea otters, etc.
Marine Life
Continue the research on marine animals
Day 9 - August 2nd
Curricular Area
Developing web page, information on the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Computer Skills
Continue to develop and create their web page
Marine Life
Information on the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Day 10 - August 3rd
Curricular Area
Finish web pages, access each student's web page and make a book of web
pages
Wrap up - what they learned in this three weeks, what they learned from
their host families,
Computer Skills
Finish the web pages
Print them out for a hard copy book
Typing the summary of what they have learnt here to put it on the web page
Marine Life
Finish the research
Day 11 - August 5th
Curricular Area
Web page presentation and Sayonara Party preparations
Computer Skills
Go to the other students' web pages and email them a comment