Researching for your website

Environmental Awareness

In this week's class you will be researching some aspect of Environmental Awareness for your website. 

Read the following page on how to research information on the internet. Don't forget that you can also read books and other reference books, e.g. an encyclopaedia. Online encyclopedias include:

•Encyclopedia Britannica – www.britannica.com

•Encarta – www.encarta.msn.com 

Have a look a the sample website research here.


Use the worksheets to write out your research, or you can do it on your computer using the sheets.



>>>>>Here are some sites to get you started:

• Earth 911
• Eeko World
• Nature Challenge for Kids
• EPA's Environmental Kids Club
• Recycle City
• The Planet Slayer
• Kids Planet

Designing a website for Environmental Awareness Month (Week 6)

This week we will look at designing a website for environmental awareness month.

Lesson Objectives

• Deciding the structure of a website

• Using a 'storyboard' to  help design a website

 

Details about your web design project 

Example storyboard

Example website about animals

Test your knowledge

Judging Websites - Week 5

This week we will look at how we can judge websites. We need to think about:

• Audience: who is the website trying to attract?
• Purpose: what is the website for?
• Fitness for purpose? Does the website do what we want it to?

 Click on the lesson link.


Have a look at this website for some website design ideas, some bad websites and what makes a website annoying!