Tips for Teachers

How We Made our WebSite

First we studied the Life of Abraham Lincoln. We read books about Abraham Lincoln.  
Here are some we liked a lot. (click on the books to purchase them at Amazon.com)

	Abe Lincoln's Hat (Step into Reading,... (Step into Reading. Step 2 Book)  Martha Brenner, Donald Cook (Illustrator), Random Library, 1994
	Honest Abe Edith Kunhardt, Malcah Zeldis (Illustrator), Greenwillow (publisher), 1993, a beautiful picture book biography.
	Another wonderful book to read is Abe Lincoln Remembers  by Ann Turner, pictures by Wendell Minor, HarperCollins Publishers, 2001,  to imagine how Lincoln might have thought and felt.
	A. Lincoln and Me by Louise Borden, illustrated by Ted Lewin.

Our teacher read us some facts from the World Book Encyclopedia.
We wrote a time-line of Abraham Lincoln's life on chart paper.

We selected important events and drew pictures to illustrate them.

We used 9" x 12" white drawing paper, markers and crayons.

The teacher scanned our pictures and turned them into files on the computer.

We used a flat-bed scanner and Paint Shop Pro software to resize our images.
Our teacher made two files for each drawing, one 400 x 300 pixels and a thumbnail size for our index page.  She kept all of our files on the computer in a folder called "Lincoln".

The teacher made our Web pages.

Using Netscape Page Composer, our teacher put our pictures onto our Web pages.
We told the story of our pictures using our class timeline.
Our teacher helped us with the words and spellings.

We read our pages on the Internet!

After our teacher posted them to the Web server, we read them together in our classroom on our computer.
It was exciting to see our pages published!