DLT:
  • Explain that HTML allows a programmer to communicate the way content should be structured on a web page
  • Write a simple HTML document that uses opening and closing tags to structure content
  • Understand how to use lesson resources provided in Web Lab

Question of the Day: How can we tell the computer both what to put on the web page, and how to organize it?

Vocabulary:
  • HTML - Hypertext Markup Language, a language used to create web pages
  • HTML Element - A piece of a website, marked by a start tag and often closed with an end tag
  • HTML Tag - The special set of characters that indicates the start and end of an HTML element and that element's type
  • Website Content - the text and images on a website
  • Website Structure - how the content of a website is organized

Activities:
  • Code.org Unit 2 Lesson 2: Intro to HTML - In this lesson students are introduced to HTML as a solution to the problem of how to communicate both the content and structure of a website to a computer. They are introduced to HTML, the Web Lab tool, and how to navigate lesson resources on Code.org in general. Due by the end of class today. Complete all activities on part 6 and 9.




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