Activity that allows students to research forms and understand how to use them.

1. By Chris Coombe
FINDING FORMS ON THE WEB

2. BACKGROUND
Web Page Design 1
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 Discussed and worked on a project
incorporating forms on a website.
 Worked with many form options including text
boxes, drop-down lists, option buttons etc.

3. OBJECTIVE
After a discussion on forms on the
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Internet, students will be able to research
and identify forms on the Internet and how
they are used to collect information by writing
about their findings with 90% accuracy
through class discussion.

4. ACTIVITY INFO
Students had to find forms on the Internet.
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 Identified what kind of information was
collected in the form.
 Identified what form options were used.
 Example: option and radio buttons, text areas.

5. ACTIVITY
The students wrote a paragraph about each
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website to identify:
 Information that is provided on the site.
 Information that is collected by the form.
 Types of form options used.

6. ACTIVITY
After the students wrote about their 5
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websites, we discussed as a class anything
interesting that they found about any form.

7. DIRECTIONS
Find 5 websites that incorporate forms.
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 In a paragraph for each, you need to do the
following:
 Show the URL and title of the website.
 Describe the purpose and information provided
on the website.
 Describe the purpose and information collected
from the form.

8. RESULTS
Students really enjoyed activity.
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 Allowed them to identify forms that they use
everyday.
 Did a great job explaining the purpose and
website.
 Examples of forms found:
– Poll Question of the Day
 ESPN
 E-mail – Contacts in address book

9. QUESTIONS??