Kenneth Cole
2 July 1998

Emerging Technology Links

The following list of links are for project and lesson WebPages that were developed for Emerging Technology class at Faubion Middle School last year. All of the pages were used as lessons in either ET1 or ET2. Next year we will offer a new class called Advanced Technology. All lessons will be upgraded from the original lessons which will be archived as much as possible. All teachers of similar courses please feel free to use the ideas and concepts which we have developed. Also, please share your ideas and lessons with us.

Emerging Technology Lessons and Projects

Lesson Name
(lesson duration)

URL(s)

Description

Safety and Rules
of Technology Class
(5 class days)

Not Posted on the Web

 Introduction to Emerging Technology  Class. Addresses issues of safety and acceptable use

Introduction to E-mail
(5 class days)

 http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/et1assgn1.html Introduction to e-mail, acquisition of a Web-based e-mail account, rules for safe and responsible use, register account with instructor, how to organize address book and folders.

Monthly Birthday Chart
(5 class days)

 http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/et1assgn2.html Introduction to office tools and project oriented lessons. Create a chart with real data entered into a spreadsheet.
Where in the World?
(15 class days)

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/et1assgn3.html

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/et1assgn4.html

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/et1assgn5.html

In our first major project, "Where in the World", the students search the Internet for a school with a Website outside of the United States. The student writes a report about the school and makes a presentation about the school.

Toothpick Fences
(5 class days)

 http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/rect32graph.htm In this hands-on spreadsheet activity the students create rectangles with 32 toothpicks. All possible rectangles with a perimeter of 32 are considered. The resulting data is entered into a spreadsheet along with the formula for perimeter and area. This project is conducted off the Web and only the graph of the collected data is posted.

The Box Project
(15 class days)

 http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/boxproj.htm

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/blueprint.htm

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/bxsprdsh.htm

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/xlssbox1.htm

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/xlssbox2.htm

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/betterbox.htm

The Box Project is a modification of a project that I used in my pre-algebra class.It requires that the students construct a simple three dimensional figure to explore size differences in surface area and volume of apparently similar objects. The Box Project serves as an introduction to polynomials for middle school students who are preparing to take algebra. By entering the length, width, and height of their box into a spreadsheet and inserting the formulae for surface area and volume, the students see knowledge of abstract concepts can apply to concrete objects. This helps answer the reoccurring question about algebra, "when am I ever going to use this stuff?"

Create Your Own
Tessellating Fractal
(10 days)

 http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/fractalproj.html

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/frctlbck.htm

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/frctltes.htm

This lesson is really an introduction to understanding Web graphics. Students create Fractals and Tessellations by both drawing on paper and with graphic software. Fractals are first created using Fractint for Windows and then tessellated using an image editor.

Creating a Web Page
by Writing HTML
Using Notepad
(10 days)

 http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/webpage.htm This is where the students produce their first Web page in this class. The point of this lesson is to insert their own tessellating fractal image into their own WebPages to test the image's ability to tessellate. This lesson leads into the next project where the students create a small Website on disk using graphics that they created as well as ones they found on the Web.

Create Your Own website
(25 days)

 http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/et2assgn1.html

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/et2assgn2.html

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/et2assgn3.html

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/et2assgn4.html

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/et2assgn5.html

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/et2assgn6.html

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/fmscolor.html

http://www.oocities.org/~kcole/colorx.html

This project is a more in-depth look at the make up of a Website. Lessons include inserting tables into a WebPages and hexadecimal numbers and color code used in html.

Most of this project is spent on individual students creating a Website on a topical theme chosen by them and approved by the instructor.

The Websites are submitted on disk and all pages should be reachable from links on other pages.

The Noon Shadow
Observation Project
(25 days)

 http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/fmsnp98.html

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/np_lessn.htm

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/n_shad98.htm

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/np98tbl.htm

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/noonscav.htm

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/noongeom.htm

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/eratknew.htm

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/calcdist.htm

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/np98form.htm

http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/np99mail.htm

This project involves schools from all over the world who participate at the vernal equinox by measuring the angle of the Sun at actual noontime. Faubion Middle School collects the data via Web submissions. Faubion students create spreadsheets with the algebraic formula necessary to calculate the circumference of the Earth using the method developed by Eratosthenes of Alexandra, Egypt over 2,000 years ago. This project integrates concepts from history, geography, astronomy and mathematics. It also involves the use of spreadsheet applications as well as use of the Internet to communicate worldwide.

JavaScript by Example
(15 days)

In development based on a similar lesson by Dr. Thomas Hicks, his lesson is located at:

http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~thicks/JavaScript/

Last year we did a similar Web-based lesson posted by Dr. Thomas Hicks, Trinity University. This summer I am developing a similar lesson for middle school students.

Emerging Technology 1
Final Presentation

 http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/et1_final.html Power Point presentation on the topic of, "What I have learned this semester in Emerging Tech 1."

Emerging Technology 2
Final Presentation

 http://www.oocities.org/Athens/8231/et2_final.html Power Point presentation on the topic of, "What I have learned this semester in Emerging Tech 2."
Kenneth Cole
kcole@waymark.net
http://www.kencole.org
last updated: 2 July 1998

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