Web Page Module

Step 1: Select a topic

Allow your students to select, investigate, and report upon a current event, issue, experiment, research project, or collect data for analysis and evaluation, or any educational topic or strand.

Step 2: Resolve collaboratively through brain-storming what specific Instructional Goals will be accomplished at the completion of the project.

Step 3: Set parameters for instructional objectives. List criteria that must be accomplished by the curriculum module.

Ex. Students studying "Indians" will write poems, read stories about famous Indian cultures, create headdresses, make paper mache replicas of hut dwellers, cave dwellers, or tepee dwellers, compose word banks for simple nursery songs, and string beads and weave dream catchers. Small oral or written reports accompany each major section of instruction. Photos taken of children with art and handwork, typed renditions of songs, ryhmns and poems and copies of written reports can easily be front end pages to a collection of excellent on-line resources indexed according to lesson plan design.

Step 4: Design TOP-DOWN Page Layout which will include: