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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Font and File Size

For Students 3rd - 5th
What is your favorite font? In this experiment, you will test how the font style of the letters (or characters) in a file might change the size of the file.
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Handout
Other

Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles

For Students 9th - 10th
An online manual for Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. Includes links to Philosophy, Interface Design, Site Design, Page Design, Web Graphics, and Web Multimedia and Animation chapters, with Appendices.
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Activity
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Fun With Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interesting site has a variety of activities and games to use in the classroom or at home to teach letter recognition, phonics, and beginning writing skills. Learn about individual letters at the Alphabet Soup Cafe, create an...
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Handout
Microsoft

Microsoft.com: The Kerning Table

For Students 9th - 10th
This site defines kerning and discusses its use in open type fonts.
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Article
Other

Family Classifications of Type: Sans Serif

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes the development of the Sans Serif type family and provides an example of the font.
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Graphic
Other

Ideabook.com: The Language of Type

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Ideabook.com supplies keyboard instructions (PC & MAC) to create various symbols for mathematics, commerce, finance, weights & measures, punctuation, & reference.
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Graphic
Other

Free Web Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
A page full of free animation, clip art, backgrounds, and other graphics to be used on web pages. Simply download an image to use.