Individualizing
Holiday Explorations

Lesson One
Selecting and Investigating a Holiday

  • Brief Description
  • Objectives
  • Materials and Resources
  • Activity Description
  • Internet Resources

  • Brief Description

         Students use the Internet resources provided and their own searches to select and investigate a holiday of interest to them. Up to Contents





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    Objectives

        Students will:

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    Materials and Resources

        In developing our lessons and activities, we made some assumptions about the hardware and software that would be available in the classroom for teachers who visit the LETSNet Website. We assume that teachers using our Internet-based lessons or activities have a computer (PC or Macintosh) with the necessary hardware components (mouse, keyboard, and monitor) as well as software (operating system, TCP/IP software, networking or dial-up software, e-mail and a World Wide Web client program, preferably Netscape, but perhaps Mosaic or Lynx). In the section below, we specify any "special" hardware or software requirements for a lesson or activity (in addition to those described above) and the level of Internet access required to do the activity.

    1. Special hardware requirements: Server space for HTML documents (optional).
    2. Special software requirements: Multimedia design application such as ClarisWorks, HyperCard, Hyperstudio, or Director (optional); SoundEdit or other audio editing application (optional).
    3. Internet access: Medium-speed (28,000 BPS via modem) or High-speed (greater than 1 MBPS via network).
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