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Lesson 1: What is HTML?

Learning that HTML is a text base coding language which defines how a website is displayed.
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Lesson plan

1. Recap and recall

Before starting this unit, you might want to check the children can recall:

  • That www stands for world wide web in a web address.
  • The first or main page of a website is called the homepage.

  • The text at the top of a website is known as a header.

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Siobhan Morgan Computing specialist

Head of Computing at Exeter Junior School, Siobhan Morgan has nine years of computing teaching experience as well as experience from her role of ‘Subject Genius for Computing’ on TES. Siobhán enjoys spending time with her family and searching for the Gruffalo in the woodland of Exmoor with her two boys. Her hobbies include playing computer games, re-reading the Harry Potter series and watching science fiction series’ including Black Mirror and Fringe.

Siobhan’s free lesson on Remixing HTML teaches pupils how to ‘Build A Burger’ through code. She has also created many other lesson plans and video demos within Computing.

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