Overview
**Question of the Day: How can we tell the computer both *what* to put on the web page, and *how* to organize it?**
This lesson introduces HTML as a solution to the problem of how to communicate both the content and structure of a website to a computer. The lesson begins with a brief unplugged activity that demonstrates the challenges of effectively communicating the structure of a web page. Then, the class looks at an HTML page in Web Lab and discusses how HTML tags help solve this problem, before using HTML to write their first web pages of the unit.
Vocab
- HTML - Hypertext Markup Language, a language used to create web pages
- HTML Element - A piece of a website, marked by a start tag and often closed with an end tag
- HTML Tag - The special set of characters that indicates the start and end of an HTML element and that element's type
- Website Content - the text and images on a website
- Website Structure - how the content of a website is organized
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