My Materials Supporting Exploring Computer Science Curriculum Unit 3

Included here will be my personal materials supporting the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) curriculum, specifically version 4.0. (Some teachers in Chicago may also be using a version of this curriculum with integrated experiences providing preparation for Microsoft Office Specialist certification: Taste of Computing curriculum.)

My materials have not been reviewed by others, and do not have any official status within the ECS curriculum; rather they are simply a few handouts, web pages, and suggestions that I have prepared to support certain pieces within the ECS curriculum.

Most of my materials are available in

PDF format. (If you don't have it already, you can download the free Adobe PDF Reader for .pdf files.)
LaTeX format. (If you are not already familiar with this format, you will probably want to skip over it, but here is a starting point for learning more about LaTeX.)

Feel free to edit and repackage these materials for your own use. If you are not familiar with LaTeX, you will probably want to cut-and-paste from the PDF to whatever document preparation tool you prefer. (See also available materials for other units.) For this unit, I have created a set of handouts that can be used to complete the web design work with minimal access to the internet in case of connectivity that is not entirely reliable. The parts in my plan that use internet access are as follows; generally, one could even work around these items:

Grabbing images and manipulating using Photoshop Express. (Could potentially avoid internet access if some version of Photoshop is installed locally.)
Exploring available colors. (Could just provide a more limited set of colors to students.)
Exploring more advanced styling than in the handouts, but this is an optional activity.

I have done a little bit of reordering of the ECS material relative to the ECS order, and developed the following set of instructions to students in four parts:

Web Design Part 1: Creation of an initial web page including at least a title, headings, paragraphs, two links, and other specific requirements. PDF, LaTeX.
Web Design Part 2: Preparing and inserting images. PDF, LaTeX.
Web Design Part 3: Incorporating emphasized and strongly emphasized text, inline styling, and an internal style sheet. PDF, LaTeX.
Web Design Part 4: Creating a site of three interrelated pages and using an external style sheet. Also tables and ordered and unordered lists. PDF, LaTeX.

Other units: Previous Unit: Unit 2, Unit 1.