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Web Development introduces students to the core technologies used to create modern websites.
Web Development is aligned to the CSTA 6-8 and 9-10 Computer Science Standards within our full K-12 computer science curriculum. The course provides opportunities for middle and high school learners to build foundational and advanced skills in web programming, design, and interactivity. Students explore algorithms, variables, functions, events, and responsible computing through project-based learning in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Provides pacing suggestions, key vocabulary, discussion prompts, and differentiation tips to support student choice while ensuring alignment with learning goals.
These student-facing slides walk students through each phase of the project and include embedded prompts, key concepts, and workbook activities.
Helps teachers support students, model expectations, demonstrate creative possibilities and accurate use of the code.
Supports debugging during instruction and offers a reference point for students building their own projects.
Aligned to the project's learning objectives and includes grading criteria for creativity, collaboration, and technical proficiency.
Students use workbooks (print or digital) to record their project ideas, explain their coding choices, and reflect on what they've learned.
Students learn to build real websites from scratch: structuring pages with HTML, styling them with CSS, and adding interactivity with JavaScript. Along the way they pick up design principles, accessibility basics, and how the web actually works. Hello World's Web Development course for grades 6-10 is project-based, so students finish with sites they built themselves.
Yes. Web design is one of the most motivating entry points into coding because students see results immediately and can build something personal. It's often the first time students write text-based code, which makes it a strong bridge from block-based courses like CS Connections with VR into Intro to Python.
Start with structure, then style, then behavior. Students learn HTML by building a simple page about something they care about, learn CSS by making it look the way they want, and learn JavaScript by making it respond to clicks. Hello World's curriculum follows that sequence with scaffolded projects, so students never face a blank editor without support. If you're curious whether block coding should come first, we wrote about block-based programming.
Yes. Every Hello World course includes complete lesson plans, pacing guides, interactive workbooks, slides, and assessments. Teachers can preview free projects with a free account; the full course comes through a district pilot.
The projects that stick are personal: a portfolio page, a fan site for a hobby, a page for a school club, a simple interactive game, or a site that presents research from another class. Hello World's course is built around this kind of project, and students can share and showcase their work at end-of-year events. See the course overview for unit details.
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