OVERVIEW

Activity Overview:

Searching for websites can be time-consuming. Imagine having to re-discover the places where we buy our groceries or where we like to play. For the same reason we memorize the routes to our favorite locations, our devices memorize our favorite websites. This is called bookmarking.

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• Subject Area: Computer Science
• Grade Level : 3-5
• Computer Science Domains:
  • Networks and The Internet
• Computer Science Principles:
  • Collaborating Around Computing, Creating Computational Artifacts, Communicating About Computing
• Materials:
  • Chromebook
• Considerations: +

Lesson Plan

Overview

Searching for websites can be time-consuming. Imagine having to re-discover the places where we buy our groceries or where we like to play. For the same reason we memorize the routes to our favorite locations, our devices memorize our favorite websites. This is called bookmarking.

ASSESSMENT PRE/POST-TEST

Can students identify the various icons that bookmark websites? Do students know how to name the bookmarks? When necessary, can students manage bookmarks by editing, updating, deleting and cataloguing them?

OBJECTIVES

Store the bookmark for a website Manage bookmarks

CATCH/HOOK

We all have websites we go to regularly. These are popular, we talk about them with our friends and even share our activities. But, when we come across websites that are every bit as important but do not go there often, we need a way for our device to memorize that location. That is where bookmarks come in.

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS

I) Storing Bookmarks (Class) Icons (5mins) Show the different types of icons used by different websites. Star Page w/ bookmark hangin down Two-tailed rectangle Bookmark Names (10mins) Walk-through the process of bookmarking a website touching on 3 key elements: Default name given Personalized/Edited name Strategies for naming Using parts of the website name as a clue and abbreviation to save space Managing Bookmarks Change name Exercise(10mins): Go to SDSC#3 website and bookmark the calendar Then change the name to something easy to recognize Update address Exercise(5mins): Change address of bookmark showing how it now goes somewhere else; then change it back. Organize Bookmarks Exercise(15mins): Bookmark up to 5 websites. Then, sort them into groups based on why they are important. Now, create a folder for each group and give it a name. Finally, move each bookmark to its appropriate location.

Supplements

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REVIEW

This may seem super easy and unnecessary. However, as the years go by and we use multiple devices to go to many different sites, it becomes likely we will lose or forget certain sites. Bookmarking these sites and organizing them into easy to search folders will make it so we can quickly and easily move from one site to another. Now you all know how to manage your bookmarks so you can update them as you grow.

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